Highway merging rant
I guess I’ll never stop being amazed how most people merge onto highways from on-ramps. It practically never fails – here I am almost exclusively in the right hand lane, where I’m legally supposed to...
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Terryallan wrote:shakyjay wrote:Terryallan wrote:2oldman wrote:Terryallan wrote:What kind of machines (and when) are you talking about?
IF you had ever ran machines that are ran by computers. You wouldn't say that
The vehicle you drive right now is 'ran' by computer.
But not driven by computer, and the machines I run, are state of the art. Some even prototypes, And they all have a mind of their own. I would not trust a computer to drive me down the road. They don't always do what you tell them to.
They do things they aren't supposed to, and when they do. The designers tell you. It cannot do that. But it did.
People don't always do what you tell them to do. While computers may not do what you expect them to do, they are only capable of doing what they are told. Ultimately it is or was a human who provided the instructions. They have no mind of their own, whatever mind they have is what is provided to them via human instruction.
Spoken by someone who appears not to run CNC machines. Yes they do, do things they are not told to, and sometimes even travel in directions computers don't travel in. And when they do. They do not care what / who is in the way. It's one of the reasons for the BIG RED button. I see it every rotation. It wasn't supposed to do that, or, it can't do that. But it did. And sometimes people are seriously injured, or even worse when they do it.
Don't misunderstand. CNC machines are marvels. They can make adjustments to ONE tiny Micron, a measurement so small you can't see it. But they will still do things they are not supposed to. You do not want one driving your car.
Spoken by someone who understands computers and code. I understand that from your perspective the machine does something it is not told to. Reality is that a computer is incapable of doing anything it is not told. Computers simply carry out instructions, humans write those instructions and occasionally they don't get it right. That is when the computer does something that we think it is not supposed to. It would be more accurate to say it does something we did not intend for it to do.
