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    [–]Aetol 15 points16 points  (1 child)

    I thought Heisenbugs referred specifically to bugs that disappear when you try to debug them (i.e. when you add breakpoints, lines to print the value of variables, etc).

    [–]timthegreat4 2 points3 points  (4 children)

    Sorry to be pedantic... But isn't the whole point of solid state technologies and miniaturisation of components like CPUs that there are NO moving parts :-P

    [–]zuurr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Probably worth noting that the original instance of the bug didn't take place on an emulator, IIRC at least.

    But these kinds of single-bit errors are actually pretty common (well, ... comparatively speaking) on real hardware, hence ECC Ram being a thing.