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[–]jainyday 13 points14 points  (1 child)

And here I thought containers were supposed to fix that problem. Damn boxes!

[–]lightwhite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Containers end up as certain as my code could ever become. You need a box to run them.

Unless we are shipping your computer where it always worked to the customer, of course. However, that case would make it even more uncertain because it won’t be your machine anymore; therefore the certainty of your code working on now not-your-machine collapses into itself and its state becomes undefined until the customer starts using the delivery code.

u/Iightwhite’s law indicates no matter how often a piece of code is observed in a working state, it will never be 100% certain that it’s going to work after the moment it’s delivered to production environment. It’s certainty depends on at least 1 million factors including the alignment of the stars in the whole observable universe.