Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "This Dev Booted Linux 292,612 Times To Fix A Bug" video.

I'd certainly like to hear more. These kinds of stories are the best, especially when they fix it in the end. I can't say I've ever had an error that sneaky and pernicious, but then I've never written an OS kernel, unless you want to count a simple boot loader that printed hello world, which I wouldn't. I suppose once I release my programming language then I might find such bugs, but let's hope not.
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I've always used EXT, starting with 2, moving through 3 and now I'm on 4. Never had a single problem with data corruption or data loss. Every single time I've had some hard drive fail, it was one formatted for use with Windows computers and it always failed when plugged into someone else's machine, and they didn't fail consistently either. That tells me all I need to know about using Windows.
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@guiorgy I use my Pi as a media player in my living room now, and on occasion it has a weird runaway LXDE process. I should probably update it or debug it, but simple killing and restarting LXDE with a runlevel change works fine.
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What was the bug?
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@knghtbrd Oh yeah, threading bugs back when I first started learning were the worst because slowing your code down or speeding it up would make it disappear, and the machine I had was so slow that it made everything take a million times longer. You must have had a fast computer though, because I can't imagine sentinels only dropping you 5 to 10%. On my potato that would drop me 50%.
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@knghtbrd Ah, I see, you had a GPU to help unburden your CPU. I've never owned a discrete GPU, always had onboard graphics. My Win98 box had a 533mhz Celery with 256mb of RAM, after upgrading. I could barely play the original Unreal and UT without seeing crashes every so often when enough enemies were on screen at once.
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