On 2018-07-18, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> I'm of the opinion we're all running different machines with
>>> different sets of software, and this explains that (could be wrong,
>>> though).
>> I was just -so- sure we all had the exact same installs.
>
> All joking aside: I've been maintaining about 4-5 Debian machines, all
> using Debian testing and basically all obtained by cloning and updating
> between them, hence all deriving from my "root" install performed some
> time around 2003 (onto a Thinkpad X30 which I still use, still using
> that same Debian testing).
>
> While most "apt upgrade" are somewhat similar among those machines, I'm
> surprised at how often I notice significant differences.
>

It's the butterfly effect.

-- 
At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was
reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in
reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of
despondence and mortification.--Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern 
Prometheus


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