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Storage devices regularly go berserk in really novel and interesting ways when you have a large enough pool. Most projects I've worked on, I've known enough to
by kev009 10y ago
Storage devices regularly go berserk in really novel and interesting ways when you have a large enough pool. Most projects I've worked on, I've known enough to fix the bugs, had a working theory of what the issues were and could fix if I really needed to after higher priorities, or could somehow work around. With storage devices, I'm frequently bewildered and stuck maybe to the last category at best. There are times when I sit back and just think, wow, how amazing is it that computers work at all knowing the things that do go wrong.
- jacquesm 10y ago> There are times when I sit back and just think, wow, how amazing is it that computers work at all knowing the things that do go wrong. There is a special category of bugs named for that kind of feeling, they're called schrödinbug. The idea is that once you've noticed that something couldn't work it promptly stops working.