handoflixue comments on Rationality Quotes July 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: handoflixue 09 July 2011 08:22:05AM 4 points [-]

I once wrote code that crashed my C++ compiler. For the life of me I Was sadly never able to reproduce it, but it's definitely in my book as an impossible error. (this is not "the programmed crashed when run", this was "the compiler crashed when trying to compile this program")

When debugging, I now label things as "extremely unlikely" instead...