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by boulevard 245 days ago
There is absolutely no substitute for an engineer seeing, smelling, and hearing the environment where their code will actually run. The number of times a mysterious software glitch on a remote device has been traced back to insect nests, rodent chewed cables, or just a thick layer of industrial grime is not zero. It gives a whole new meaning to flushing the cache :)