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com2kidyesterday at 4:57 AM1 replyview on HN

My team once encountered a bug that was due to a supplier misstating the delay timing needed for a memory chip.

The timings we had in place worked, for most chips, but they failed for a small % of chips in the field. The failure was always exactly identical, the same memory address for corrupted, so it looked exactly like an invalid pointer access.

It took multiple engineers months of investigating to finally track down the root cause.


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triyambakamyesterday at 5:32 AM

But what was the original estimate? And even so I'm not saying it must be completely and always correct. I'm saying it seems wild to have no starting point, to simply give up.

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