Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #058 | Luck Rewards Patience
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Luck Rewards Patience
The shower in my home developed a minor leak. Although the leakage was minimal, the issue had been bothering me for some time. I hired an experienced repair technician who arrived equipped with ultrasonic and thermal imaging leak detection tools. However, due to the small volume of leakage, he was unable to pinpoint the source. Amusingly, much like how symptoms often disappear when patients visit a hospital, the leakage stopped entirely after I scheduled the repair.
To locate the source, I kept the shower running continuously to simulate an extreme condition. After six hours of waiting, both the technician and I were on the verge of giving up. Yet, in the final twenty minutes before he was about to leave, the leakage reappeared. We managed to find a stable way to reproduce the issue, and once the source was identified, the problem was quickly resolved.
This repair experience reminded me of a recent debugging process. Despite dedicating a significant amount of time and patience, I couldn’t uncover the root cause of a persistent bug. Interestingly, when I decided to set aside the bug and focus on writing a different piece of code, a simple typo in a type name unexpectedly sparked an idea. In just five minutes, I managed to solve the…
