[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] There's things crawling around in my coffee,
Things crawling around in my tea,
I don't quite know what they are
But now they're crawling around in me.
Bitrot
Last night I found some serious bitrot in code that I thought had been functioning ok for ages, and certainly worked correctly a couple of years ago. Now? loops nested wrongly, objects reinitialised for no apparent reason, bit ops flipped out randomly, and each bug living in a rotten sinful symbiotic existence with a corresponding inverse bug that caused the whole mess to fail transparently, discernible only to the trained ear.
ErikLevy: this all ties into my favourite tshirt; on the front "nothing will ever be the same again", and on the back in tiny writing:
FUCKING ENTROPY!
Fucking entropy.
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