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This is an amazing story! Classic race condition :)

• SamBam 5y ago
  Those race conditions are always tricky to reproduce.
  • teaearlgraycold 5y ago
    God DAMN it
  • shrikant 5y ago
    I hope 'brailsafe (whose jokey (and IMHO, low-effort) comment was heavily downvoted then flagged into oblivion) takes note -- this is a good example of a funny that this community appreciates.
• spoils19 5y ago
  I don't understand how this is a race condition, but I might need to check my old undergrad textbooks though. Props for the quirkyness, though! :>
  • KMag 5y ago
    A pregnancy doesn't show up on a pregnancy test (a read operation) until after implantation and enough fetal growth to significantly impact the mother's hormone levels. So, there was a write (fertilization) followed by a read (pregnancy test) without any synchronizing operation. The pre-op pregnancy test missed the pregnancy because of the race between the read and the write.