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by lisper 2 days ago
A trivial counterexample to what? The antecedent of "one of the easiest" was "ways to accidentally create nondeterministic output." One even the most charitable reading I can muster that still seems to me to presume some pretty abject stupidity.
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A trivial counter example to the intuition one might have that compilers likely produce deterministic output. It’s directly responsive to the exchange between Aoi and Numa above, wherein Aoi expresses exactly that intuition. Of course, those are characters playing out a question less familiar readers might ask. Presumably the intent is to make this content accessible to a wider audience, using an obvious example to introduce the concept without requiring much background knowledge.