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I love the idea of faith based technology, where it just works but nobody is capable of comprehending why or how.
by jmogly 1y ago
I love the idea of faith based technology, where it just works but nobody is capable of comprehending why or how.
- dialup_sounds 1y agoPraise the Omnissiah!
- isolli 1y agoThis is also quite common in medicine...
- probably_wrong 1y agoI've had bugs go away when I added `print("working fine until here")` to the preceding line. So if someone told me "this line is needed but I don't know why", I wouldn't even blink.
- kbelder 1y agoMy coworker took down our site briefly by removing an html comment that said "don't remove this comment".
- MITSardine 1y agoLoad bearing print statement! I've had a few of those, I think they're usually a symptom of stack corruption.
- rcxdude 1y agoOr a concurrency/timing issue, where the delay of the I/O changes things just enough to make them work on your setup.
- yencabulator 1y agoBack in the day the QA department would veto a release candidate of our firewall product due to performance degradation if a network cable in the testing equipment was bent too much during validation runs. Rearrange the cable and next test run would pass. Timing matters.