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If the bug is totally new to you, find out if there’s a name people use for that type of bug!

Illustration of two stick figures. Person 1 has curly hair and looks worried, Person 2 has straight hair and is smiling.

person 1: “this bug is happening intermittently, it’s so weird.”
person 2: “that sounds like it might be a race condition…”
person 1 (thinking): “oh, what’s a race condition?”

examples: - terminated by signal SIGSEGV (address boundary error)
segmentation fault - flexbox: div doesn't fit in other div (CSS)
item overflowing container - nodename nor servname provided, or not known
DNS lookup failure - RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
stack overflow

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