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caaqil • yesterday at 7:27 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> the operator would have to be more interested in understanding the root cause than in fixing the current form of the bug...

Can you even do the latter without the former?


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ahartmetz • yesterday at 9:20 PM

You can "fix" it (make the current reproducer not reproduce it anymore).

ozim • yesterday at 10:15 PM

I see it all the time, it is fixing the symptoms usually. It kind of works until it doesn’t and it fails miserably.

So yes you can and it works, sometimes…