Non-determinism and pacemakers

[Lapo Luchini]

> And don't ask me to produce an example, because I do understand
> "astronomical". But if you had a heart pacemaker whose operation
> depended on appropriate updates to a control data file, would you trust
> rsync to send that file update to the pacemaker?

0_0" <= REALLY astonished face

Do you really think that a pacemaker is something even remotely close to 2^-127
probability of error?

I know very little of biomechanics but I bet it is surely worse than 99.999999%,
that is a mere 2^-20...

Gh ^_^

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