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I've used many of the same technologies he's talking about and have experienced almost none of these issues... maybe I just got lucky but it seems we have the

I've used many of the same technologies he's talking about and have experienced almost none of these issues... maybe I just got lucky but it seems we have the bigger problem that these systems are so complex that they've almost reached chaos theory levels of total randomness of behavior from small changes to initial inputs.

jodrellblank 6y ago
See "The mess we're in" talk by Joe Armstrong (Erlang creator) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 - from 6 years ago. Your computer with 1TB storage has ~2^8trillion possible states it could all be in. Number of states you could count through if you burnt up The Sun trying: ~2^128 or so, tops. Atoms in the universe: ~10^80.