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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you perform the correct incantation?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is why I keep the freezer outside my office stocked with chickens

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Check the global temp vars, files and caches. Encapsulated scoping is a lie we've been told to help us sleep better at night. Some of those seemingly well defined system functions bleed out to caches for (slight) performance gains.

You could have the most locked down explicitly defined well scoped code in the world, and it just takes one measly baked in call to a global function to shatter that dream house into a thousand pieces.

I'm looking at you string-match; you know what you did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Bugs wants to be nice, they see how stressed we are so they love playing hide and seek to relax us XD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What was the cause?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Some bugs only trigger on the first run. Or the second. Or the third. Or...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I find bugs, I use screen capture software to repo it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That requires you to be able to reproduce it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Got introduced to the phrase "your tongue was in the wrong spot in your mouth", for something that can't be reproduced.