"The fix going forward is that Microsoft needs [...] not just raw dog risky updates to customers."

Odd critique. Microsoft could do whatever, it was Crowdstrike who "raw dogged" the update to customers without any meaningful staging.

Let's hypothesize a bit. What's preventing the C++ compiler from auto-inserting if-checks for NULL pointers, just like a human would? That it wouldn't know what to do in the 'else' block?

Discussion (267 points, 11 hours ago, 313 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41009740

One of us, one of us...

here for a good time not a long time...

where the rust folks at

edit: wtf is this

> is compromised by a cabal of woke tards that are doing strange things.

or

> Maybe they have a DEI engineer that did this

Can confirm that as an upper-middle class heterosexual cisgender white man I have never dereferenced memory through an invalid pointer. That's just part of my "PRIVLIDGED".

I heard that the CrowdStrike bug was committed during DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.