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The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by lantry »

> Turbo is a gem we added to speed up our Rails application, but it turned out to be a red herring: it was only introduced after the bug had already been reported, and we learned that the engineer who introduced it had actually been experiencing these Chrome crashes for months prior to Turbo being introduced, and months prior to the bug being escalated to us.

lolol I can just imagine the engineer working on this: "huh, it keeps crashing, that's weird. Oh well, it was like that when I got here. ship it"

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by mardifoufs »

jacquesm wrote: post #198
mardifoufs wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly what surprised me the most from your very informative link was that France is lower than the US! I'm probably biased but I've always considered the French education system to be quite rigorous and well rounded, with a few different education paths to fit different student profiles from a pretty early stage. Especially compared to canada, which in my experience has a rather weak and rigid curriculum. (Though…

> You're basically boxed in to your specific domain or degree that you often don't even really choose and changing or switching careers is almost impossible. This was true 50 years ago but hasn't been true since the 90's or so. France may well be the exception in this, but then again, France is an exception in many ways.

Isn't it still true in Germany? With the different high school tiers that can even make it impossible to enroll for a university degree? Though you are right that I shouldn't say that Europe as a whole is like Germany or France even if it's sometime easy to assume so haha.

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by pavel_lishin »

mattnewton wrote: post #195
jvanderbot wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - total stream-of-consciousness gibberish that could probably be assembled into a coherent statement if the writer would re-read what they wrote and edit it This drives me nuts . Did anyone see this [1] on HN the other day? People in comments were springing up to defend this atrocious writing style. Make a paragraph. Make a point. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38275905

I think that writing style has a point in _realtime_ text chat, where you are racing to get your comment in and turn in the conversation. It’s like a way of streaming your thoughts, not unlike voice conversation - many of the defenses seemed to be talking about that. Not defending it in non-realtime scenarios though.

Oh yeah, I didn't even think about context switching for different communication mediums - maybe my complaints are mostly about people who are used to texting people a series of text messages, in a more conversational way, that doesn't really translate to something like an email or a Facebook/forum post?

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by nightfly »

aquafox wrote: post #160

I randomly had the issue that after booting up Linux, I didn't have any sound. Turns out it was related to my Windows dual-boot setup! When restarting from Windows, Windows doesn't shut down my realtek audio device, but only puts it to sleep and Linux fails to start it. Only solution is to always do a shutdown from Windows and then hitting the power button. The issue is still there: https://askubuntu.com/questions/10…

I've seen the opposite-ish: Someone who was dual booting windows and linux only had working wifi if they booted into windows and rebooted into linux. The linux install didn't have the firmware package for their wifi card installed, so when rebooting from windows into linux it was still all primed and ready to go but not when cold booting into linux directly.

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by NautilusWave »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #113
ecshafer wrote: post #87

I don't think I would believe myself if I found this being a specific gif. This is a great amount of coincidences in code to cause this. Grammarly is an application that I don't get. The fact that people are installing, basically spyware, on their computers just to get grammar suggestions to make their writing more boring and add a spellchecker (which is already inside web browsers) is pretty astounding to me. The fa…

People that are comfortable with text-based forums may not realize the extent of illiteracy and semiliteracy in the US. Decades ago, a small company was able to convince most of the education system (public and sometimes private) to use a teaching method based on junk science. The end result is that there are many millions of adults in the current workforce who can barely read, and many of them work in office setting…

Between the whole language approach to literacy and undiagnosed ADHD, I was very slow at learning how to read. Fortunately, my parents were able to force my grade school to put me into special ed for a couple of years and I rapidly acquired the skill. I have no idea how the teaching methods differed though, beyond classes being half the size and the special ed teacher being accompanied by an aide

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by mckn1ght »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #113
ecshafer wrote: post #87

I don't think I would believe myself if I found this being a specific gif. This is a great amount of coincidences in code to cause this. Grammarly is an application that I don't get. The fact that people are installing, basically spyware, on their computers just to get grammar suggestions to make their writing more boring and add a spellchecker (which is already inside web browsers) is pretty astounding to me. The fa…

People that are comfortable with text-based forums may not realize the extent of illiteracy and semiliteracy in the US. Decades ago, a small company was able to convince most of the education system (public and sometimes private) to use a teaching method based on junk science. The end result is that there are many millions of adults in the current workforce who can barely read, and many of them work in office setting…

I didn’t see a direct mention of it in the links, but is the junk method referred to called Reading Recovery? First I’ve ever heard of it, at least by name. Found it by googling the name Marie Clay that I did see mentioned in one of these links. (Annoying how hard they work to bury the lede.)

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by ozr »

ecshafer wrote: post #87

I don't think I would believe myself if I found this being a specific gif. This is a great amount of coincidences in code to cause this. Grammarly is an application that I don't get. The fact that people are installing, basically spyware, on their computers just to get grammar suggestions to make their writing more boring and add a spellchecker (which is already inside web browsers) is pretty astounding to me. The fa…

I really like Grammarly as a product, but I exclusively use their web editor. I wonder what their web vs desktop usage is.

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by NautilusWave »

This reminds me of an old Chrome bug we ran up against involving the auto fill feature. All day, our software users are entering patient data, including address information. Chrome would grind to a halt on certain pages trying to provide all their previous entries as auto fill options to the form fields. Our sysadmins disabled the Chrome feature for all of our internal users and the issue disappeared.

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by exikyut »

gnulinux wrote: post #173
ianlevesque wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that people don't care or understand this, but that's also saying he cc's OpenAI, and therefore probably Microsoft, and therefore almost definitely the NSA, on all his business communications. What a world.

People won't care until something major happens and after that they'll implement some draconian half-measure that doesn't fix anything like snooping on office WiFi.

How's that even supposed to work, given that the average corporate ecosystem is so vastly cloud-based now that the majority of services use desktop and mobile apps that pin HTTPS certificates?
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