A guy boots Linux over 200k times to find which commit caused a bug

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2023/06/14/i-booted-linux-292612-times/

That's some serious effort going on there.

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InduperatorRex@kbin.social · 17 pts · 3y (6 replies)

This is why soulless corpos can never compete with talented people who are more than happy to work on amazing things for free just for the sheer satisfaction of achieving something actually useful, instead of lining shareholder pockets while pretending to look busy

JWBananas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

for free

They literally work for Redhat

silent_clash@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Which is now owned by IBM. I still think Red Hat is a force for good but yeah, they're not smol beans in their basement.

EqMinMax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Which is now owned by Lenovo.

mattmcal@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

In my experience, numerous people who love tackling hard problems for the sake of it go on to work at soulless corps. That's part of their success.

massacre@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This guy Corps.

mattmcal@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

For the record, I wish more talented people were working on open source and doing volunteer work, I'm just stating the view from the ground here in Silicon Valley.

0485919158191@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y

He said it was easy, which git bisect is, but it's still very impressive! Love the dedication!

fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

rebooting 200,000 times sounds like a typical Windoze update

chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y

Windows 7 after a fresh install has entered the -- oh wait nevermind it's rebooting again...