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  • Or in some cases might crash 8.5 million computers worldwide.

    Yes the Crowdstrike crash was caused by going 1 past an array length, caused by a magic number index and a regex mistake, and wasn’t caught because the tests didn’t work.

    The whole thing was a compound series of amateur mistakes, but with kernel access at boot time.















  • In these situations the asker is typically skeptical that your a “real fan”, usually because of sexism.

    It doesn’t really matter how you answer because they’re not asking for a genuine conversation, they want a dick measuring contest to prove they are superior. If you do fulfill their request chances are they’ll nitpick the songs you chose and still accuse you of being a “fake fan”.

    Gatekeeping often comes with moving the goalpost so the only winning move is not to play.

    A genuine asker would probably ask about your favorites rather than demand they answer trivia.