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		cratermoon on Oct 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The decline of computers as a general-purpose tech... Perhaps some folks here are too young to remember the Pentium FDIV bug[1], but it's not complete BS to distrust the calculations. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

bee_rider on Oct 22, 2023 [–]

I’m sure FDIV-like bugs are absolutely eclipsed by typos and misclicks from doing things manually.

TeMPOraL on Oct 22, 2023 | [–]

Yeah, but typos and misclicks don't scale. What was that saying? "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."

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