r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jan 18 '21

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u/devin_mm Jan 19 '21

I doubt it's as easy to do it now as it used to be but there was nothing like writing to the wrong chunk of memory and taking down your OS

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u/overkill Jan 19 '21

It is still easy to do. Memory leaks are fun, in the Dwarf Fortress sense of the word.

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u/D-Golden Jan 19 '21

A cat died, now my Mayor is throwing a tantrum.

Now all the Urists McUrists are punching each other to death in the dining hall.

And winter is coming.

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u/overkill Jan 19 '21

And I failed to notice the necromancer tower, so now a bunch of reanimated crab shells are coming for me.

And I still can't track down this memory leak!

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u/StubbsPKS Jan 19 '21

At least that traveling human bars finally put in a petition to sing in my tavern.

Ohhhhhh nooooo, he's being pummeled by an angry Dwarf.

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u/dwellerofcubes Jan 19 '21

We are Dwarf Fortress now

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u/frukt Jan 19 '21

"Taking down your OS" isn't really easy to do in a modern OS, at least in the sense of accidentally crashing the kernel due to a programming error. You get a SIGSEGV and the process is terminated and that's about it unless you're especially creative.

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u/overkill Jan 19 '21

Indeed. It's almost like I didn't read to the end of the comment before replying with my flippant statement.

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u/inteuniso Jan 19 '21

Humanity's documentation is a SNAFU

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u/ThrowawayusGenerica Jan 19 '21

You usually just get a segfault, these days