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1. BobbyT+Hp7[view] [source] 2025-03-27 03:27:20
>>jakevo+(OP)
Interesting writeup, but 2 days to debug “the hardest bug ever”, while accurate, seems a bit overdone.

Though abs() returning negative numbers is hilarious.. “You had one job…”

To me, the hardest bugs are nearly irreproducible “Heisenbugs” that vanish when instrumentation is added.

I’m not just talking about concurrency issues either…

The kind of bug where a reproduction attempt takes a week, not parallelizable due to HW constraints, and logging instrumentation makes it go away or fail differently.

2 days is cute though.

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2. dismal+Z28[view] [source] 2025-03-27 11:40:11
>>BobbyT+Hp7
I always refer to them as “quantum bugs” because the act of observing the bug changes the bug. Absolutely infuriating. I like “heisenbug” better. Has a better ring to it.
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