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tldr: the code worked differently when a signed version of gettickcount was negative, giving a change that repeats over 49.7 days
“We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here…”
I love these stories! There’s also,
And now that I’ve gone searching for these I see that they’ve all been helpfully collected on http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html
Those are great stories, thanks for sharing!
That code has a werewolf in it!
The moon phase cycle is 29.5 days. The reported bug cycle is 49 days. Yet somehow, “Not strictly the cycle of the moon but close”.
With that sort of logicalal analysis ability, no wonder this guy struggles with stupid bugs.
impure functions and their consequences
