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Yes that's most likely a misunderstanding there - most heuristics I've used were very much deterministic. Non-determinism is evil, that I would agree - but heur
by virgilp 7y ago
Yes that's most likely a misunderstanding there - most heuristics I've used were very much deterministic. Non-determinism is evil, that I would agree - but heuristics aren't. As long as you understand they are heuristics and might fail/lead to suboptimal results.
- naasking 7y agoMost internet APIs use timeouts. That's as nondeterministic as it comes.
- marcosdumay 7y agoNetworks are non-deterministic by nature... Just like disk IO, but on networks it's in an entirely new level.
- naasking 7y agoYes, the network is non-deterministic. The point of a reliable protocol is to make it the outcome deterministic despite any underlying non-determinism. So why include timeouts in your protocol which just adds back the non-determinism?
- virgilp 7y agoWhich is why the first rule of distributed systems is "don't distribute your system"