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Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by a-dub »

blueberrychpstx wrote: post #4

When I come across posts like these, I just wonder, "How in the world did the user discover this in the first place?!" Let's place bets: A) The user just let autocomplete "take it away" (not sure about this one since they were able to access the console) B) Pen Testing? C) Error copy and pasting? D) Actual dialog in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic love story where a robot discovers the Turing test and attempts to set itsel…

E) fidgeting/futzing with stuff mindlessly while in conversation/doing something else

personally, i've happened across some pretty serious security bugs this way.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by cyral »

_wldu wrote: post #28
zciwor wrote: post #15

Will 100% be pasting this into a coworker's Google Doc with a white font color.

That's probably a cyber crime in most US states. Edit: You guys have no sense of humor.

Sounds like a job for the Highway Patrol

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by simonh »

sam1r wrote: post #48

I’m willing to bet it’s related to this. Google docs is trying to guess something for autocomplete, similar to their gmail feature to complete your sentences. Which means, on a privacy standpoint, whatever you’re writing and guessing, they are absolutely processing something. We the user are the product, apparently. This is mildly creepy to me because, I do vent on google docs sometimes. And assume only I can read it…

It’s literally called a word processors, so I suppose it processes the words. I don’t have a problem with that, as long as my data is only used for purposes I have approved and to provide features I use.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by nopakos »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #31

Sort of related, last night I managed to make Clang crash by feeding it a certain C++ program: https://i.imgur.com/r5MC2aK.png It was very surprising that there was a way to get Clang to segfault. Should I report it somewhere? The code is basically doing a recursive template expansion with some C++20 concept constraints. So it's not quite as simple as "And. And...", but it's similar in that certain input text causes…

By chance, I was just reading that typing "x = 4.725" on Atari ST Basic crashed the computer. Still not fixed 35 years later :) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST_BASIC#Bugs]

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by buryat »

_wldu wrote: post #28
zciwor wrote: post #15

Will 100% be pasting this into a coworker's Google Doc with a white font color.

That's probably a cyber crime in most US states. Edit: You guys have no sense of humor.

Hackernews is not a place for jokes

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by dzaima »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #31

Sort of related, last night I managed to make Clang crash by feeding it a certain C++ program: https://i.imgur.com/r5MC2aK.png It was very surprising that there was a way to get Clang to segfault. Should I report it somewhere? The code is basically doing a recursive template expansion with some C++20 concept constraints. So it's not quite as simple as "And. And...", but it's similar in that certain input text causes…

Note that it might be worth trying the latest clang version first. The latest proper version is 14.0.0 from Mar 25, which is only a month old compared to the 7 months of 13.0.0, but if it's something that's condensable to a single file, you could test it on https://godbolt.org/z/hv41441jK, which has daily builds.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by noobermin »

lopatin wrote: post #54
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #40

Typing "And. And. And. And. And." did not reproduce the bug, but copy/paste the "And [...]" from the title of this post did. EDIT: Ah, I had to reload the page, thank you child comments.

Typing worked for me. You have to refresh.

Refreshing was the key. Just typing it in does nothing, but refreshing or opening a saved document from your documents in docs with the text in it already leads to the crash.
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