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The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by leptons »

SonOfLilit wrote: post #314
leptons wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a website bug is not easily solved, first order of troubleshooting is to disable all extensions. Devs don't often think an extension could be causing the problem, but extensions can do wild things to a webpage. I've caught a few bugs caused by extensions this way.

This is not an extension. It's some other kind of plugin or weird hook. They tried disabling all extensions first thing.

"Hunch #2" in this article is about extensions causing problems. That is what my comment is in reference to, but maybe you didn't read the article.

Sorry but there is no rule that every comment made about an article must be specific to the outcome of an article about troubleshooting. I can comment about other things covered in the article too.

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by sfink »

IshKebab wrote: post #289
sfink wrote: post #162

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That is the definition of null hypothesis, yes. Not to be blunt, but you might get a closer shave with Occam's Razor.

The null hypothesis isn't "it's not true" it's "what's has the highest prior probability?". If my wife said "I'm going to the shops" I wouldn't assume she was lying until proven otherwise.

Sorry, but no. The null hypothesis is that there is no relation between two variables. You have to do experiments to estimate the probabilities of the null and alternative hypotheses. You don't get to label the one with the higher prior as the null hypothesis; that's simply not what that term means. It does indeed mean "it's not true [that A affects B]".

> If my wife said "I'm going to the shops" I wouldn't assume she was lying until proven otherwise.

I certainly hope you wouldn't! But the null hypothesis would indeed be that the words she speaks have no bearing on whether she is going shopping. I don't know your wife, but I find it easy to believe that your prior probability of that hypothesis is quite low.

(At least, until it becomes a pattern where she's regularly staying out all night with more and more flimsy excuses....)

Re: The weirdest bug I've seen yet

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Post by jolux »

rhaps0dy wrote: post #279
jolux wrote: post #278

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The Chromium source code is also available, not sure why they said they couldn't look at it. If it replicates with Chromium you can dig right in.

If you read carefully you will see that they said the bug didn’t replicate with Chromium

They say it didn't replicate in Chromium but that's before they figured out what it was.
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