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The strange thing is that when I interviewed there years ago with the team that owns the language that runs in the kernel, they said their ci has 20k or 40k mac

The strange thing is that when I interviewed there years ago with the team that owns the language that runs in the kernel, they said their ci has 20k or 40k machine os combinations/configurations. Surely some of them were vanilla windows!

dboreham 2y ago
They used synthetic test data in CI that doesn't consist of zeros.
- dlisboa 2y ago
  Fuzz testing would've saved the day here.
  - azemetre 2y ago
    I’m sure some team had it in their backlog for years.
    - 0x6c6f6c 2y ago
      Oh yeah, FEAT#927261? Would love to see that ticket go out
    - queuebert 2y ago
      That team was probably laid off because they weren't shipping product fast enough.
  - TeMPOraL 2y ago
    Why not? It's unlikely it was the last null byte in the data file that killed the driver.