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This gets sort of philosophical. What would be an example of a computer error?
by eli 12y ago
This gets sort of philosophical. What would be an example of a computer error?
- oh_sigh 12y agoA computer seeing an instruction, be deciding on its own free will to not follow it, an do something else.
- jackgavigan 12y agoI think that if the computer decided to exercise its own free will, the resulting error would pale into insignificance. "Screw that batch processing job. I wanna get to 2048!"
- ccozan 12y agoThat would be a pure hardware error. For example a cosmic ray hitting a cell the DRAM and flipping a bit. Or maybe the Intel FP-Bug, could also be a computer error. Anything else in software is a programming error, but not necessarily a programmer error, since it might start with wrong HW specs, compiler bugs, etc.
- eli 12y agoSo "computer error" is when the hardware designer screws up and "human error" is when the software designer screws up? That seems pretty arbitrary.