What's the most most mysterious bug you've ever encountered that later turned out to have a trivial explanation?
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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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I made a little bouncy balls program with randomized start location and velocity. I thought it was a spooky bug that the state would be the exact same every time I ran it. That's when I learned of random seeds!
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In a CMS for reporting poker tournaments, where we'd have 100+ posts/day, we'd often lose a post around midnight if the tournament played that long. We'd type it up, hit publish, just like always, but it wouldn't appear in the blog. We'd have to retype it and repost it.
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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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My internet connection kept lagging at dinner time. Turns out the wifi was on the wall opposite my neighbor's microwave (basically a 800W 2.4GHz jammer). Later prompted an in-depth article. carlos.bueno.org/2009/10/dismal
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