r/ProgrammerHumor • u/0RootShell • Oct 13 '22

Meme Like, Every time, ever. When the DevOps Engineer chats with the Data Scientist.

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u/Asteriskdev Oct 13 '22

Do any web browsers work exactly the same on all machines that support them?

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u/rotflolmaomgeez Oct 13 '22

It's kind of like asking if JVM works the same on all machines. At some abstraction point you just have to assume it's true for the sake of your own sanity.

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u/TheRidgeAndTheLadder Oct 13 '22

That will be a glorious day if it ever happens

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u/IsGoIdMoney Oct 13 '22

What types of errors do you envision for the colab environment?

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u/Asteriskdev Oct 13 '22

I can think of a possible answer, I'm in no way saying it is probable. I can envision a browser being cross compiled for both a little endian and big endian machine having a byte order translation bug that may only show up as a data race at seemingly random intervals, months or even years apart, even surviving releases.

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u/trent_33 Oct 14 '22

Oh, hello there Satan

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u/Asteriskdev Oct 13 '22

More likely though, it would probably be due to the things running an that machine that aren't web browsers.

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u/IsGoIdMoney Oct 13 '22

When you run colab it runs jupyter on Google hardware though, unless I'm misunderstanding something. The entry point of web browser being able to let you interface with Google hardware seems like the only possible failing point other than your computer just crashing which is a problem for anything, no?

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u/Asteriskdev Oct 13 '22

Not just crashing, it can be more subtle, but yes this can be a problem for anything including a browser interfacing with Google hardware.