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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

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I'm drifting, dunno if that really counts. Trying to get rid of some bugs of WTF level that I only see in my own machine and that I can't really use to justify my paid time, so I'm getting stressed out by the minute (after a few days already) while I try to figure it out and go back to regular work.

Very vaguely, what kinds of bugs? I'm curious.

Can you whole-world clone the entire stack you're working on/with?

1. Verify the bug exists in your whole-world clone

2. Chop bits out of one of the copies until the bug goes away, and/or see if you can copy the whole world to another machine (which you've probably already tried)

Alternatively, perhaps let fixing this bug go, and as was suggested, use another machine (or a VM, if that's fast enough and it "fixes" it) for now. You might figure it out while you work on something else.

This position is horrid to be in :P but letting go right now in this situation is sometimes the least long-term damaging solution.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

#14
Just getting out the first HVSImage 2016 behavioral tracking system for Mercer University. The original machine was slightly slow in tracking and real time analysing due to the i5 chip being a little below par - now I'm slightly slow in testing due to being coshed in Geary prior to flying back on Saturday. . .

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

#17
Manually wrangling recent nuclear eng research docs to get and homogenise data for my own research protocol. Hopefully the protocol will become the template for the work of a remote network / open community of independent nuclear researchers in the months to come.
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