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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 | 1 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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amenghra ◴[23 Apr 25 18:08 UTC] No.43774928[source]▶
IMHO, if something isn’t part of the contract, it should be randomized. Eg if iteration order of maps isn’t guaranteed in your language, then your language should go out of its way to randomize it. Otherwise, you end up with brittle code: code that works fine until it doesn’t.
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plutaniano ◴[23 Apr 25 20:01 UTC] No.43776084[source]▶
Aren't you just creating another contract? Users might write code that depends on it being random.
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1. Artoooooor ◴[23 Apr 25 21:18 UTC] No.43776715[source]▶
Maybe it would be good to change all non promised things between releases. So that such unwritten rules never become something users rely upon.