this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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Software Gore

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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

That's not an error. It's just reading data in four dimensions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

speculative execution

Surely it read ahead and had to roll back because it made a wrong prediction. 😏

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Birds are not real.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I'm trying to think of a bug that could cause this, but can't come up with anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I think its safest to assume time travel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Its not a bug its a penguin. Seriously though someone probably mixed up x and y axis in some variable calculation when draeing to the screen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Super weird, yeah. Both the upper and lower ends have some slope, so it's not just "ghost points". Thr points are connected in a contour, so the data really is going back in time, then reaching new values.

It gets weirder the more I try to solve it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

But is it a duck or a rabbit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Road head? Hah? Need my glasses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

the penguins are coming

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

Thus graph the raven... nevermore

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

oh hehehe let’s uhhh… let’s read uhhh…. splat

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Time travel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Had to be Epic Games too

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I suspect this process might be illiterate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

write edges so hard read got red in another dimension of time