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Dylan16807
on Oct 22, 2013
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How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
They roughly explained it. The counters were in a different state because of refactoring moving their updates around, so the Power Peg code had an incorrect view of reality.
rurounijones
on Oct 22, 2013
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There is a part of me that is strangely impressed that the code ran at all after 8 years of things changing around it.
I would have expected it to just segfault or error out in some way.
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