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  • But I think it’s better for it to fail from expected behavior vs unexpected behavior. Your storage being full is very transparent and expected, but that a file reaches max size and starts cutting off is unexpected and would surprise a lot of people.

    I myself use supercomputers and the log files can get into a lot of GB, and I would hate it if it just cut off at some point.










  • Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyzThoughts??
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    3 months ago

    That reminds me of a story my bachelor’s supervisor in astrophysics told me: One of his best PhDs applied at an insurance company. They got an Excel sheet with data that they had 1 week to analyze. All the other applicants took the whole week. He just put it in Python, solved it in a few hours, and got the job.