This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

tide tide at tide.tide
Sat Sep 1 12:21:05 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 05:53:12 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 01/09/2018 12:40 PM, tide wrote:
>> On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 22:42:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 8/31/2018 2:40 PM, tide wrote:
>>>> I don't think I've ever had a **game** hung up in a black 
>>>> screen and not be able to close it.
>>>
>>> I've had that problem with every **DVD player** I've had in 
>>> the last 20 years. Power cycling is the only fix.
>> 
>> Two very different things, odds are your DVD players code 
>> aren't even written with a complete C compiler or libraries.
>
> And yet they manage to run a JVM with Java on it.

Not the one's Walter is talking about. I rarely have to power 
cycle any smart device, even my phone which is running so much 
shit on it.


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