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Re:All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to... by flamedoge on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:45AM (#16542582)
you can't guard against every imaginable stupidity. you try but users will inevitably find a hole.
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Re:All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to... by loup-vaillant on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:59AM (#16543030)
That's not how APIs work. You don't eliminate stupidity by thinking of each and every way the user could screw up. You simplify your API so there aren't so many ways to use it in the first place.
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