The Worst Bug Ever?

5 pointsSagelyGuru5y ago3 comments

I initialised something to 1e64 instead of 1f64. It somewhat affected the results. By 64 orders of magnitude ;)

The Rust compiler, always so full of complaints at other times, was of course happy with it.

This just shows how all error checking, no matter how sophisticated, compilation and runtime, is doomed in the face of the slightest typing error.

3 comments

What about mounting a sensor upside down and destroying a Proton-M space rocket that costs 65mln$ per launch?

2rsf5y ago

Like the 737 Max crashes the root cause might be a sensor but there's along chain of failure leading to the crash.

Every graphics related bug, result in black screen nothing rendered and no error messages

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