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Frequently, for me, means at all. Computers are designed as deterministic state machines. Any unintended indeterminism is a failure. Microsoft, uniquely exerci
by moloch-hai 4y ago
Frequently, for me, means at all. Computers are designed as deterministic state machines. Any unintended indeterminism is a failure.
Microsoft, uniquely exercising monopoly power, was able to institute a "no refunds, nohow" policy and make it stick: Windows95 machines commonly crashed several times a day, enough so that "crash" came to mean, instead, you have to reinstall the OS, which happened at least one per several months.
And here we are.
- intelVISA 4y agoHorrifying, can you imagine an alternate reality where we have to actually write working software? Microsoft, for once, did a Good Thing in a way.
- akerl_ 4y agoI guess you can use the term however you want, but FWIW if you say "frequently" and mean "at all", it makes it a lot harder to understand the point you're trying to make.
- moloch-hai 4y agoIf it happens to me, it is happening to untold others, too. Thus, frequently. "Infrequently" would mean I had not heard of it, or that I heard only of isolated instances, well publicized.
- akerl_ 4y agoI feel like I just fell into a bucket of logical fallacies.
- moloch-hai 4y agoWe all have no choice but to sample imperfect information. You can no more than pretend better.