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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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1371 points yett | 2 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 1.822s | source
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bombcar ◴[23 Apr 25 14:59 UTC] No.43772976[source]▶
This is the kind of thing I'd expect from Raymond Chen - which is extremely high praise!

I'm glad they tracked it down even further to figure out exactly why.

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martinsnow ◴[23 Apr 25 16:00 UTC] No.43773612[source]▶
Raymond is a wizard. Read his blogs for many years and love his style and knowledge.
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Discordian93 ◴[23 Apr 25 18:34 UTC] No.43775258[source]▶
He's a total legend, yet apparently he's never met Bill Gates in person from what he said in an interview in the Dave's Garage YouTube channel a few years ago. You'd think that someone who's been that prominent for so long in the company would have been invited to a company dinner where he was present or something.
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1. bombcar ◴[23 Apr 25 19:34 UTC] No.43775854[source]▶
Microsoft's a big company, and billg "stepped down" in 2000. Raymond is still working, so they overlap less than may appear.
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2. iforgotpassword ◴[24 Apr 25 14:06 UTC] No.43782967[source]▶
He has stories on his blog about windows 2 iirc, so there was an overlap from a time where they were still relatively small. So I think it's a bit odd they never talked or met.