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That gets to the original promise of computers, doesn't it? That they'd perform repetitive tasks quickly and reliably. Meanwhile, every time I make scrambled e
by sowbug 4y ago
That gets to the original promise of computers, doesn't it? That they'd perform repetitive tasks quickly and reliably.
Meanwhile, every time I make scrambled eggs, there is a small but very real chance that my house burns down. And we accept this because to err is human.
- taeric 4y agoSorta? But a lot can be packed away in "other directions." Most recipes, for example, assume that setup/teardown is intrinsic to the kitchen. As such, to know the procedures to do those things, you would look somewhere else. That is, you aren't accepting a risk that things will go wrong. You have moved what to do about many exceptions to somewhere else.