@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
Post #3860863
2026-07-16 11:01 UTC
Learning how to use "timeout" because I'm using someone else's software that's interacting with hardware that might be less well behaved than they expected.
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@ftp_alun@infosec.exchange 2026-07-16 14:41
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz I have a theory that Windows apps grew to prominence in the 90s in part because of unreliability. Unix code of the time tended to assume the memory allocations would always succeed, that there'd always be space on the disk, etc. Windows apps assumed they had to check those errors, and as a result, behaved more robustly under pressure. Just a hypothesis based on my own anecdotal experience.