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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

@me <GasLamping>
There's so such thing as a Heisenbug on deterministic computers.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr Intellectually, I understand this.

I think that computers just trick us into believing them to be deterministic.

@me They aren't quite as deterministic as we might like them to be these days. I think some CPUs have a quantum randomness source, and task-scheduling across multiple computation units often _feels_ non-deterministic to me.

Plus, I do believe the term "Heisenbug" can be applied to bugs that go away when you turn on debugging/profiling/tracing or any other type of monitoring system that might be useful to diagnosis, even if everything is perfectly deterministic.

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