demonsahem. data-races.The absolute worst thing that can happen is if it suddenly starts working without doing anything
This is just how you use Visual Studio
Trying to debug race conditions be like
Yuuup… Debugging concurrent code is a bitch.
You make a change. It doesn’t fix it.
You change it back. The code now works.
The code now
worksbreaks in a new way.the real fix was the journey, the destination never mattered
sometimes it needs to warm up… or cool down
The error message goes stale when it’s been sitting for a while. I need to see a fresh one.
xkcd 242 obviously
I feel called out. I’m not sure which way I’d go.
Get somebody else to pull it.
For science.
Me playing point and click games
But sometimes it works, or throws a different error …
you have to check if you are dealing with a bug or with a ghost
And a different error means progress!
A different error each time?
I refer to @[email protected] comment.
When it does a different crazy thing every time and you have no idea why, it means you’re a genius and have created life.
Or you’re coding in C.
Actually tru. Damn preprocessors.
Code doesn’t work; don’t know why.
Code works; don’t know why.
Cargo Cult Programming is bad.
Just making sure that the write buffer was flushed or something.
When your
Makefileis so fucked up that you have to run it multiple times to get everything to build and link properly.The usual for me is that I flip back over to my editor and hit ctrl+save, cause heaven forbid I ever remember to do that before running.
I have no regrets from setting my editor to save-on-blur
You jest but “wait and retry” is such a powerful tool in my DevOps toolbox. First thing I tell junior engineers when they run across anything weird
Honestly, in DevOpS, when you’re running stuff in a GitHub Action/Azure DevOps Pipeline/Jenkins, yeah… sometimes a run will fail for no obvious reason.
And then work the next time (and the next 100+ times after that) when you haven’t changed a damn thing.
“Maybe if we ignore the problem, it will go away”
The first one is to warm up the engine. Like getting your car ignition to kick over in the winter
and sometimes that’s exactly what’s needed. Services wake up, connections get established and then when you try again things are up and it works.
