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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

Debugging pretty much any multithreaded application..

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Nah, just throw all the unknowns into a the error term at the end of the equation and call it a day. All models are wrong, but some are close enough.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Not always! There's a miniscule chance that you'll get the same results twice or thrice in a row.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] vulgarcynic 2 points 3 months ago

This shook me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's when you've been working on a project for a year and decide to throw it out and try something completely different

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Clair Patterson, his lead levels wildly inconsistent, "'Duck soup', my ass"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEWHqgffYEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1hBxnpjDEE

[–] day_trippin_ 8 points 3 months ago

opening pokemon cards or loot boxes 😭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Gathering statistics

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Sometimes I go outside. Sometimes it rains. The two are somewhat correlated.:-)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Quantum physics

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you are improving consistency by doing the same thing over and over then you are practicing.

In that case the difference is in chance to succeed, not really a different intended outcome which is what the saying is trying to get at.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Me measuring anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] WolfLink 4 points 3 months ago
[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 3 months ago

Meta: I asked a lot of people the same question and they've all given different answers. Fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Playing Warframe

[–] Socsa 1 points 3 months ago

I go to work every day and keep getting paid. Can you milk me, Greg?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Chaos Theory