3 ms·
I have encountered a situation a few times where a bug that went unnoticed for a while was actually keeping another, more serious bug from surfacing. So when th
by jliptzin 3y ago
I have encountered a situation a few times where a bug that went unnoticed for a while was actually keeping another, more serious bug from surfacing. So when the first bug was fixed, it caused more serious problems elsewhere in the system. I could see where they're coming from where any kind of "fix" needs to trigger a careful reevaluation of the whole system. That being said, I don't see a need for the Kafkaesque months of planning and budgeting that follow.
- sneak 3y ago> That being said, I don't see a need for the Kafkaesque months of planning and budgeting that follow. It's a method for transferring billions of dollars from public tax revenues to private companies which are cozy with the state. It has nothing to do with safety or reliability. All other methods of stealing tax money are illegal.
- jliptzin 3y agoWould be nice if we spent some time cracking down on that kind of tax theft rather than wasting time on drag shows and the 3 dozen teens in the whole country on puberty blockers
- red-iron-pine 3y agoyou got it mon ami. that's the whole point of making a kerfuffle about drag shows. or gay marriage. or even abortion. ain't no one talking about tax cuts, or getting after the rich, cuz of that.
- syntheticcorp 3y agoI’ve also encountered that a few times where a fairly anodyne bug in a codepath prevents a serious security bug from being reachable. With my attacker hat on it is very tempting to just report the first one…