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I’d say the practice of medicine is extremely primitive, and therefore shockingly sophisticated. Imagine debugging a program with an architecture utterly alien
by tekne 10mo ago
I’d say the practice of medicine is extremely primitive, and therefore shockingly sophisticated.
Imagine debugging a program with an architecture utterly alien to your intelligence, and a poorly understood highly nondeterministic instruction set.
Oh, and
- No core dumps. Very limited logging. And the most human-readable log functions have the disclaimer “everybody lies.”
- It’s persistent and distributed
- You cannot stop it or step it, and…
- You’re debugging running production code and if you break prod someone dies a painful death
I’m excited. We’re finally getting basic debuggers! Imagine what can be done!