Things That Upset Me
Consecutive runs of an application with differing results.
“Group and run” in IntelliJ always gives my results in alphabetical order. There is no particular reason that it should, and it not doing that has no negative consequences. In my two years of using it, it has just always exhibited this behavior. Until right now. This concerns me somewhat. I prefer to rely on the stability of my operations.
I remember the first time I thought about stability of operations what when working on a computer game with Alain. We had something that needed to be random (I have no memory of what). I wrote the code but when Alain was testing it, he was always using the same data. Imagine my shock. Aaah the joys of using pseudo random number generators for the first time. It’s a computer. Same numbers in, same (”random” sequence of) numbers out. If not, then something else is going on under the hood.
Too busy to look into it now though since it doesn’t actually impact the work.