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[–] [email protected] 112 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

And the worst part is when it actually does and you have no fucking idea what went wrong before.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The pc had the hiccups and now it's fine. Problem solved!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some times my game engine needs a wake up run, then an actual run.

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[–] Pantrygheist 105 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's step zero: rule out black magic

[–] embed_me 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Those damn cosmic rays flipping my bits

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Please tell me you look skyward, shake your fist and yell damn you!!!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if there's an available OS that parity checks every operation, analogous to what's planned for Quantum computers.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

That feeling when it is, in fact, computer ghosts.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Me: "Hmm... No... No the code is good, it's the compiler that's wrong."

runs again

[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Yeah, but sometimes it works.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's even worse then: that means it's probably a race condition and do you really want to run the risk of having it randomly fail in Production or during an important presentation? Also race conditions generally are way harder to figure out and fix that the more "reliable" kind of bug.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Good luck figuring out why it sometimes doesn't work 🙃

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Mmm, race conditions, just like mama used to make.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There was that kind of bug in Linux and a person restarted it idk how much (iirc around 2k times) just to debug it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

This is 100% valid when dealing with code generation sometimes and I hate it

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[–] Peafield 45 points 11 months ago

The first is a surprise; the second is testing.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i sometimes do that so i can inspect the error messages on a cleared terminal

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Sometimes I forget what I was looking for and have to restart the mental loop when doing this.

[–] PoolloverNathan 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One of my old programs produces a broken build unless you then compile it again.

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[–] nieceandtows 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just had that happen to me today. Setup logging statements and reran the job, and it ran successfully.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've had that happen, the logging statements stopped a race condition. After I removed them it came back...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Thank you for playing Wing Commander!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)
======== 37/37 tests passing ========
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

That's when the real debug session begins

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Great time to find out your tests are useless!

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[–] Buttons 19 points 11 months ago

If that doesn't work, sometimes your computer just needs a rest. Take the rest of the day off and try it again tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

The crazy thing is that sometimes this just works...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I often do this, but I always hit Ctrl-S before running it again. Shamefully, this probably works about 10% of the time. Does that technically count as changing nothing?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

That and a make clean can work wonders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Autosave on focus loss dude.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, duh! You need to use the right incantations!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I actually did this earlier today

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Somehow higher than 0% success rate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

it's only dumb til it works

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Sponsored by QA gang. Gotta make sure it's a 5/5 issue and not just a frequent issue

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