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Subject: Re: Predictive failures
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On 4/19/2024 11:16 AM, boB wrote:
>> Intermittent failures are the bane of all designers.  Until something
>> is reliably observable, trying to address the problem is largely
>> wack-a-mole.
> 
> The problem I have with troubleshooting intermittent failures is that
> they are only intermittend sometimes.

My pet peeve is folks (developers) who OBSERVE FIRST HAND a particular
failure/fault but, because reproducing it is "hard", just pretend it
never happened!  Really?  Do you think the circuit/code is self-healing???

You're going to "bless" a product that you, personally, know has a fault...