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Corollary (on second thought, Axiom): Heisenbugs do not exist, computers are deterministic. Things that do exist: Pieces of code that I do not understand. Pi
by anonjon 17y ago
Corollary (on second thought, Axiom):
Heisenbugs do not exist, computers are deterministic.
Things that do exist:
Pieces of code that I do not understand.
Pieces of code that I have not read.
Pieces of code that interact in ways which I do not expect.
- gte910h 17y ago>Heisenbugs do not exist Perhaps in your universe. In mine, I've seen video card temperature, random radio noise on an ungrounded component, and power line noise all totally screw with programs. Diagnosed to the point we could stimulate the errors through environmental changes. Dozens of more errors we think we have the solution to as being caused intermittent effects but can't repro reliably Computers in theory are deterministic. In practice, they're machines in the world.