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Dalewyn · 2023-11-02 22:05:16

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

waterlesscloud | karma 16728 | avg karma 3.69 · | 2014-05-14 17:50:12+00:00

"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.

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freehunter | karma 23077 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2018-11-26 15:16:06+00:00

Nothing bad has ever happened to an unpatched Windows system.

spcebar | karma 760 | avg karma 3.57 · | 2024-06-23 02:27:45

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

mplabelspace | karma 48 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2022-02-03 11:27:42

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

kragen | karma 31428 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2019-10-25 04:16:02+00:00

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

WatchDog | karma 2456 | avg karma 3.39 · | 2017-03-21 11:43:47+00:00

Its just a computer, no earth will be shattered.

imwillofficial | karma 1003 | avg karma 0.43 · | 2020-09-09 11:50:23+00:00

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!

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0xdeadbeefbabe | karma 1034 | avg karma 0.53 · | 2022-08-25 14:47:35

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

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

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krallja | karma 3620 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2017-11-15 03:33:39

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

boracay | karma 39 | avg karma 0.68 · | 2015-01-03 02:06:12+00:00

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.

tluyben2 | karma 11381 | avg karma 1.95 · | 2016-12-30 08:28:03

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.

jlgaddis | karma 11467 | avg karma 2.4 · | 2016-09-01 18:58:41+00:00

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.

eagerpace | karma 257 | avg karma 3.06 · | 2024-02-27 19:10:16

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.

uecker | karma 417 | avg karma 1.01 · | 2022-06-30 23:30:32

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

hurricanetc | karma 524 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2020-01-08 01:41:05+00:00

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

bpicolo | karma 6988 | avg karma 2.56 · | 2017-04-17 15:23:23+00:00

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

bongodongobob | karma 1478 | avg karma 1.4 · | 2024-06-22 05:45:41

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

tonyedgecombe | karma 14463 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2017-08-04 08:09:43+00:00

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

wruza | karma 8589 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2017-02-06 12:28:31+00:00

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.