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Agreed. At the bottom of any long-to-debug issue I've encountered is some assumption I absolutely knew to be beyond suspicion that turned out to be wrong. (Tha
by version_five 5y ago
Agreed. At the bottom of any long-to-debug issue I've encountered is some assumption I absolutely knew to be beyond suspicion that turned out to be wrong.
(That said, it's easy to say in retrospect. In the moment there is always judgement about what to verify first, and of course its always the last thing you check that turns out to be the problem)
- jacquesm 5y agoThis is the harsh thing about computers: they mercilessly point out your character flaws.
- aspenmayer 5y agoWell it would be silly to keep checking once you’ve already found the problem, surely? /s
- wheelinsupial 5y agoI don’t understand the “/s” sarcasm tags, but there can be cases where you do want to keep checking. Some problems have a single root cause, some have multiple independent root causes, and some issues present when root causes have an interaction type effect.
- anamax 5y agoYou have to both find AND recognize that you've found.