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[–] jmsy@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

That is not the definition of insanity

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, isn't it like practicing? You're not very good at something so you practice over and over and over and hopefully when you're done you do it better... You know different than when you started.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know different than when you started.

Try again

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Try again

Are you expecting a different result?

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this quote works very well on computers who run instructions pretty consistent.

any larger/ life-level scope and it falls apart from niche cases.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Any software engineer you care to ask will tell you about situations in which doing the same thing has led to vastly different results.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

*on deterministic computers.

Technically, even then doing the same can lead to different results, if nondeterministic events play a role and the different aspects of the software or system may contain bugs. For example mutlithreaded applications where the scheduler can passively influence the outcome of an operation. In one run it fails, in another it doesn't. A nightmare to debug.

yes, thanks for the add!

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

OH! I forgot about that one. I have hated it since I was a kid.