This story is fascinating in a lot of ways, but one which jumps out at me is: I don’t think the particular pre-“aha!” wondering about timing would ever occur to

This story is fascinating in a lot of ways, but one which jumps out at me is: I don’t think the particular pre-“aha!” wondering about timing would ever occur to me in the domains I’ve worked. I guess maybe I’d discover it in the repro isolation process because that elimination is often very illuminating (it’s basically how I taught myself to program!), but it wouldn’t ever come to mind unless I was staring at it while debugging. Say what you want about the ills of high level abstractions, but not having to think about the implementation details of clock sync all the way down to the metal is a pretty nice convenience when you can afford it.