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by ThrowawayR2 2642 days ago
> It’s a riff on Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle — a bug that changes behaviour when you try to observe it...

As an aside, the Heisenbug is erroneously named because the phenomenon being described is actually the observer effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) ). The uncertainty principle refers to something entirely different.