• Robin (unregistered)

    Let me be the frist to paraphrase a famous saying:

    Intelligence is understanding why the maximum of an empty collection is minus infinity Wisdom is not actually showing that as a maximum value in production

  • Randal L. Schwartz (github)

    "Button button... who's got the button!"

  • Hmmmm (unregistered)

    I like to think the last one was written with the mindset, "Congratulations — you found an error in my code. Just kidding; it's actually still a success."

  • The Andrew G your mother warned you about (unregistered)

    Maybe I'm weird, but I regularly put in errors for things that aren't physically possible if it leaves the code in an insane state. Usually I leave error messages that say things like "I don't know how you managed to do that, & honestly I'm kinda jealous."

    I don't think this should be enough to crash, since it's only in vsync, but it's probably worth noting in case people experience video desynchronization.

    You could see negative clock drift in circumstances where the clock is getting an adjustment via NTP, though it's unlikely that you'd see adjustments that frequently if you're regularly synchronizing, or if there's a leap second removed, though (a) there wasn't one on June 30 this year & (b) we've only ever added, never removed seconds.

    The real WTF, I suppose, is storing timestamps that need to be precise down to 1μs as doubles.

  • (nodebb)

    I'm not seeing the Chromium error message as a WTF at all. First, it's an error so clearly whatever code is handing an error case. That by itself makes it not a WTF at all, implementation wise. Second it's a "display.cc" so we can just guess a negative latency means some frame was drawn before expected, or some video driver can't keep up (and likely just drops a frame). Hardly sounds like a failure.

  • Login (unregistered)

    Concerning the "Youfailedatmathtube"-image: The >100% is the result if people change the language after starting the video. The video then starts over with the new language leading to the strange value. This is happening a lot with videos where the creator thinks that it's a great idea to activate AI-translations that in general are so horrible that people change it first thing after starting the video.

    But other than that it's interesting that there are subscribers who are not subscribed and that "watch time (hours)" is measures in percent.

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