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> certain models Why the weasel words? Does Raymond Chen not know which models? Or is it actually apocryphal.

CamouflagedKiwi 10mo ago
He might not since it comes via a friend. Or he's forgotten since. Also seems not unreasonable for an employee like him not to specifically name and shame hardware partners. Maybe it'd all be fine, but I wouldn't blame him at all for not wanting to risk it.
- adzm 10mo ago
  In general, he never names companies in his posts if there is anything potentially negative in there.
Ysx 10mo ago
> Yes, I know which “major computer manufacturer” it is, and no, I’m not telling. This is consistent with longstanding blog policy that companies are not identified in stories, because the point of the story to teach something, not to call out companies for derision. From the follow-up post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=107201 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=10...
- wtallis 10mo ago
  That's kind of a pathetic excuse, because it means that the "something" the story teaches is highly limited and there's nothing concrete for the reader to use as the basis for a deeper investigation.
Mindwipe 10mo ago
He genuinely might not know. I worked on a similar incident when our video encoder caused about 30% of a pretty mainstream mobile handset to hard lock when recieving a stream, requiring the battery to be removed to reboot the device. Neither us nor the OEM ever figured out why. They suspected that it was a weird combination of different bin combinations from different parts, but ultimately we had to change the method of delivering video to stop it happening.
- jacquesm 10mo ago
  The Dutch broadcasting service hired me to figure out why their homepage was crashing browsers. I turned out to be an animated GIF of two speakers that had an extra 0 interval frame in it which caused IE to crash... it doesn't take much.

He might not since it comes via a friend. Or he's forgotten since. Also seems not unreasonable for an employee like him not to specifically name and shame hardware partners. Maybe it'd all be fine, but I wouldn't blame him at all for not wanting to risk it.

adzm 10mo ago
In general, he never names companies in his posts if there is anything potentially negative in there.

Ysx 10mo ago

> Yes, I know which “major computer manufacturer” it is, and no, I’m not telling. This is consistent with longstanding blog policy that companies are not identified in stories, because the point of the story to teach something, not to call out companies for derision. From the follow-up post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=107201 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=10...

wtallis 10mo ago
That's kind of a pathetic excuse, because it means that the "something" the story teaches is highly limited and there's nothing concrete for the reader to use as the basis for a deeper investigation.

Mindwipe 10mo ago

He genuinely might not know. I worked on a similar incident when our video encoder caused about 30% of a pretty mainstream mobile handset to hard lock when recieving a stream, requiring the battery to be removed to reboot the device. Neither us nor the OEM ever figured out why. They suspected that it was a weird combination of different bin combinations from different parts, but ultimately we had to change the method of delivering video to stop it happening.

jacquesm 10mo ago
The Dutch broadcasting service hired me to figure out why their homepage was crashing browsers. I turned out to be an animated GIF of two speakers that had an extra 0 interval frame in it which caused IE to crash... it doesn't take much.