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We should be glad god (or whoever the sysadmin is) is content to not constantly patch this simulation.


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"At least, he doesn’t have to worry about viruses or hackers messing with his work."

Cause there aren't any DOS viruses? Heh. Kids today.


Nothing bad has ever happened to an unpatched Windows system.

Surely, just like systemd was, this will be completely without controversy.

Rest assured, no unix engineers were harmed in the making of this new post.

If this were the case in practice, most software would have no bugs.

Its just a computer, no earth will be shattered.

It’s more than “software guys don’t care”

Think of all the abstractions in a modern system. From the USB Bus, to the Network Stack and everything in between.

We have just duct taped on duct tape and we should be happy it all works this well!


> or (forgive me from saying this) Basic scripting could be created.

It's worth pointing out that no CPUs took offense.


A negative number of changes is nonsensical, so the programmer doesn’t need to defend against it.

It's still just an excuse. Of course there's no liability in computing so no one actually have to come to terms with that.

I don't get mad nor am demanding anything from anyone. I don't think it hurts anyone if programmers would make connections more fault tolerant. And I don't have a choice; there is no 'upgrade' in most cases. But nice that you don't have that issue.

At least we won't have to worry about any future VMware Fusion upgrades breaking anything, since there quite possibly won't be any future upgrades.

It's nice to see that they don't use it, just to use it. For example, in describing what happened with the Ship, they didn't use it because it terminated autonomously as intended by the software.

Xorg network code is considered well audited and very few problems have been found over the years. Please stop making stuff up.

It really isn’t an issue that requires hours in a simulator.

It doesn't crash the server, though, is the point.

It's not fucking with core components that aren't supposed to be fucked with.

That doesn't matter because it isn't bad enough to stop people writing good enough software for it.

Ime, the hellishest maintenance always came from bad architectures, not from minor memory management and type safety issues. But it is cool to not have these.
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