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Thursday, 8 February 2018

Computers are logical, my foot

They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result. Well, my code is currently taking a bunch of files, doing a fixed operation on those files, and spitting out a different number of files each time.

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4 comments:

  1. Daniel Taylor8 February 2018 at 17:09

    o.0

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  2. Fred Beckhusen8 February 2018 at 17:30

    Stop arguing with the computer. Its annoying to the computer, and it doesn't work.

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  3. Chris Greene8 February 2018 at 18:30

    With computers, as with living organisms, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting the same result.

    Most computer scientists and engineers are insane.

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  4. Winchell Chung8 February 2018 at 18:33

    I hate it when that happens.
    Non-deterministic software, the horror, the horror.

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