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I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I actually disagree from a systems engineer perspective: The program doesn’t actually know shit if those bits hit any permanent medium, just that the OS told them “I’ll take care of it” it could be sitting in a write back cache when you save, see the “write complete” and rip the power and that’s all gone now. Basically, I don’t like promising durability when it’s not really there.