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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
too friggin true:
"There are also unknown unknowns in technology. This is a random example I saw a while back. This person spent four months trying to figure out why he was getting GC pauses, and it turned out to be because he was writing stats to a file. He had no idea that that was a thing that could happen, but it was.
Many bugs in software are like that. We don’t know they’re there, and we don’t even really know we should be on the lookout for them."