While demonstrating web sockets data this morning, I got an unexpected Assertion failed error in the mock data script, from DataGauge.
Digging deeper it looks like this was caused by the <1 in a million chance of Math.random() returning actual 0 for the u value in the random normal distribution function.
We could carefully check that every function, now and in future, can handle an exact 0... but it's much less burden to simply stop random() from returning exact 0.
(also, what is it about Zoom's screen share feature that causes every rare, intermittent bug or edge case to happen?!)
ovhemert
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4 years ago
While demonstrating web sockets data this morning, I got an unexpected
Assertion failederror in the mock data script, fromDataGauge.Digging deeper it looks like this was caused by the <1 in a million chance of Math.random() returning actual
0for theuvalue in the random normal distribution function.We could carefully check that every function, now and in future, can handle an exact
0... but it's much less burden to simply stoprandom()from returning exact0.(also, what is it about Zoom's screen share feature that causes every rare, intermittent bug or edge case to happen?!)