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0 pointsWaterluvian6y ago0 comments

Programming can be so easy: "Oh hey, it fixed itself!"

Programming can be so hard: "So then what was the bug?"

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You can bisect to try and figure out where exactly the bug "fixed" itself. Not easy with a bug that can't be triggered reliably, of course.

Something something Schrodinger's Bug...

And the awful thing if you can’t pinpoint what caused and fixed it is that it can more easily regress later.

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0 pointsWaterluvian6y ago0 comments

Programming can be so easy: "Oh hey, it fixed itself!"

Programming can be so hard: "So then what was the bug?"

You can bisect to try and figure out where exactly the bug "fixed" itself. Not easy with a bug that can't be triggered reliably, of course.

Something something Schrodinger's Bug...

And the awful thing if you can’t pinpoint what caused and fixed it is that it can more easily regress later.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse