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[–] DraughtGlobe@feddit.nl 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

ngl my programming career helped me stay grounded in reality. Every impossible issue turned out to always have a cause, a reason to be there. Could have taken weeks to track down the issue, but there was always a cause.

But still.. every 3 or so years.. something actually impossible pops-up. Impossible to fix, impossible to reproduce, and suddenly gone from existence, as if it was never there.

[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cosmic radiation! Bit flips! Quantum tunneling! Who TF knows...

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

If only consumer hardware had ECC memory

[–] fsr1967@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It ran outta gas. It had a flat tire. It didn't have enough money for cab fare. Its tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole its car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts!

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given how software is a giant Jenga tower made of smaller Jenga towers it's amazing any of it works at all

[–] folkrav@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Well at least some of the Jenga towers have redundant Jenga tower replicas, and that Jenga tower over there has a bunch of other Jenga towers ready to be propped up by a PAASser-by given a small cold start penalty. And this one? Nobody knows how it works, but it always worked.

Right? ... Right?

[–] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah the leftpad incident. Was fun watching that from a distance

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. First instinct in this case makes me think somebody that owns a product upstream saw a failure log and fixed the issue (I'd still want to confirm that, though)