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> Not really, because you can usually shake or tilt the pinball machine to set the ball free. That's silly. A bug is an unintended behavior of the system. If y
by d--b 5y ago
> Not really, because you can usually shake or tilt the pinball machine to set the ball free.
That's silly. A bug is an unintended behavior of the system. If you shipped a debugger with every video game, you'd probably be able to get yourself out of most bugs.
> Software bugs happen (literally) billions of times per hour
You're comparing things with different criticality. A bug that doesn't prevent you from doing your work is like a match that doesn't light up properly. These events happen all the time in the physical world.
Bugs that shut down AWS for 24 hours tend to be less frequent...
Let's just no enter in a debate about the frequency of "physical world bugs".
Yes I admit it was a little knee jerk defensive.