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Oh how I do hate the word "glitch". It tells you nothing and makes the whole thing sound like a happy little accident. A glitch to me is "Hey every time we orde
by mrweasel 3y ago
Oh how I do hate the word "glitch". It tells you nothing and makes the whole thing sound like a happy little accident. A glitch to me is "Hey every time we order 200 of these fuses, we also get five lug nuts". That's a glitch. It's weird, but production moves forward. This is an incident.
No, it either a software bug, misconfiguration, network issue, hardware failure in Toyotas part ordering system or something to that nature.
- bmitc 3y agoGlitch just sits on two sides of the extreme. It's either too early in the investigation to call it anything else or it's after the investigation and there's not enough knowledge of the stack consisting of people, software, hardware (electrical, mechanical), and physics to figure it out.
- swarnie 3y agoReminds me of my old college lecturer. > There is no such thing as a bug or a glitch. Computers will only do exactly what someone tells them to do. > You either have a mistake, or a lack of understanding.
- imp0cat 3y agoUnless of course a random solar flare comes and flips a bit. ;)
- bluepod4 3y agoOr something more simple like a browser update.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoOr any other error source like that. Thermal noise, background radioactivity, etc. As chip density increases the chance of bit flips also increases, and ECC RAM becomes more important.
- rusk 3y agoI’ve heard this thinking described as a fallacy somewhere - in economics I think - nobody has total knowledge of any complex system. So it is not valid to say any kind of complex computer system only does what manifests in its commands is the result of the interactions of many people, analogous to thermal noise jiggling a grain of sand in suspension.
- calewis 3y agoParkinsons law of triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
- rusk 3y agoI think you are referring to “bikeshedding” which isn’t quite what I had in mind. I think what I’m describing is more closely related to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy See also “Complete Information” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_information https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_information The idea that all agents in a system should be aware of the consequences of all actions is itself fallacious in this thinking. As such, the “glitch” can legitimately arise from the interaction of agents who do not have complete information.
- mongol 3y agoI don't think bug means the computer is at fault.
- karatinversion 3y agoI was once able to make a very solid case that a crash was due to a bit flip turning a two-byte cpu instruction into a one-byte “inc r8” and a garbage second instruction