Try a bug that sporadically happens only in release mode, with no clear connection to anything else, only to find out years later it only happens when someone uses the microwave for too long in the break room.
"You know, we always get this error after lunch when I reheat leftover soup."
Do trick 33B: Blame it on the crappy corporate anti-virus solution.
Works always because nobody can say anything against that. Nobody knows exactly how it works, if it's secretly sending your data to the NSA for corporate espionage and if you would disable it, everything would be insecure.
Everybody swears the AI feature that adds random rules is disabled, and it has a log that shows the rules don't come from it anyway. Yet, the rules keep appearing.
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meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 54 pts · 314d
It's a race condition that doesn't get triggered when you run the program through a debugger or with copious amounts of debug log output 💀
Lojcs@piefed.social · 23 pts · 314d
Or something about packaging. Or I used a function that has a different implementation for debug mode out of its intended purpose. Or
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 314d
AKA heisenbug.
Observing it changes the outcome.
Matty_r@programming.dev · 2 pts · 312d
When adding a debug print statement changes the locking of a thread and the problem doesn't occur..
Lojcs@piefed.social · 29 pts · 314d
Only thing worse is not finding the bug that only happens in release mode
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 314d
Just release in debug mode, problem solved.
potoo22@programming.dev · 7 pts · 314d
Try a bug that sporadically happens only in release mode, with no clear connection to anything else, only to find out years later it only happens when someone uses the microwave for too long in the break room.
"You know, we always get this error after lunch when I reheat leftover soup."
Goddamnit Kyle!
Sidhean@piefed.social · 2 pts · 288d
Should have set the microwave to More Magic
carrylex@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 314d
Do trick 33B: Blame it on the crappy corporate anti-virus solution.
Works always because nobody can say anything against that. Nobody knows exactly how it works, if it's secretly sending your data to the NSA for corporate espionage and if you would disable it, everything would be insecure.
marcos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 314d
The firewall always gets new rules somehow.
Everybody swears the AI feature that adds random rules is disabled, and it has a log that shows the rules don't come from it anyway. Yet, the rules keep appearing.
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 313d
When you test in prod all bugs are release mode.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 5 pts · 314d
Undocumented feature flag in a plug-in, that changes the behavior drastically when in any deployment mode.
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
Fucking R8 (Android optimizer/obfuscator)
blave@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
This is why you have play testers