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  1. Some guy 10 years ago moving our data platform to cloud with massively parallel processing: this will be awesome, cheaper, faster, no drawbacks!

    Me 10 years later: I have to explain the stack of reasons, including massively parallel non-deterministic-sequencing processing, to someone without a CS background, why I need to use a tolerance when comparing the results of calculations that have 5 to 500 steps before producing the result.

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