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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 08:23:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I ran into a bug in a program but logging is off. I'll just enable logging and run it again, surely I'll quickly run into the same bug again, it'll definitely reoccur!

   Behold, a fool.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 09:15:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I think this might actually be an instance of one of my favorite kinds of bugs:

     race conditions that only occur if you're automating something

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 09:17:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     there's a surprising number of programs that work just fine because the fact that humans are not super-fast and accurate means that there's delays between clicking buttons and typing things and such

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 09:19:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     but I can't prove it yet. thus, the logging.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 18:02:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • James Holden

     @jamesholden yep. That happens so often.
     time.sleep(0.1) everywhere

   • James Holden (jamesholden@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 18:02:28 JST James Holden

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     @foone One of the test automation QA engineers at work once told me that most of her job was inserting delays so the tests work properly.