Mysterious slowness of a gateway software which turned out to be an uncommented "sleep 10". Removing it didn't have any side effects other than the avg execution dropping to 100ms from 10.1 secs.
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Oh I have a great one. It's like a locked-room mystery. Developing a PlayStation 2 game. Test builds are burned on DVD. Big demo tomorrow, so I set everything up in the demo room (PS2 devkit, demo disc) and test it. Everything works great!
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Come back in the morning. I am ex-QA and paranoid, so go in early to test again. Game is busted. Symptom: Any physics object (think crates and other shit that flies around due to explosions) flies for a second then freezes in space. Like, hangs weirdly in mid-air.
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I suspect I’m not entering into the spirit of things but we were rolling out some business software to a global financial services institution that you have heard of, and after a certain amount of time one of the clients would stop working and it would spread to all the other
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Mainframe would mysteriously crash (sometimes) at exact multiples of 3 days, 17 hours & 4 minutes. Eventually IBM engineer opened all the doors & everyone watched as the time approached. Tiny water droplet fell, hit a fan & splat into memory core. "Hardware fault: plumber called"
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revisiting this thread... why was there a water drop leak at precisely that periodicity?
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Not me personally, but the "can't send email over 500 miles" bug is a classic: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html …
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In the not-me-personally classics, my favorite is, “Dog hates Win3.1: is fine with DOS but goed crazy when I start Windows 3.1.” DOS ran monitor at 50Hz, Win3.1 at 60Hz, and damaged monitor produced a supersonic whine when running at 60Hz (audible only to the dog)
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