Frank writes:

>  "It's also important to remember that software is never intermittently
>  flaky;"
>
>  ... except Windows.

No, beyond the joke value of the statement, software is always deterministic
in its behavior. What is true that as the software becomes increasingly more
complex and the state variable table that the software operates within
becomes so large that you can no longer guarantee (in a mathematical sense)
its behavior, then it too begins to somewhat take on the attributes of a
noisy thermodynamic system, but at its core, it still remains deterministic.

Wirt Atmar

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