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150.1 — Debugging as Dissociation: Where You Go When You're In It

There is a particular mental state that arrives about forty minutes into a hard debugging session.

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Nov 17, 2024
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There is a particular mental state that arrives about forty minutes into a hard debugging session. The regular world recedes. What remains is the problem-space: the call stack, the hypothesis, the ru…

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