When you stare at a problem over and over it is easy to fall into an unconscious rut, making the same subtle mistake over and over. It could be something so simple as running the program in the wrong directory or being oblivious to the fact that an environment variable was set 6 hours ago. (Or my favorite bug-a-bears: forgetting to save before I run or repeatedly running a different file from the one I'm editing.)

When you get up the next morning, refreshed and clear-eyed (well, maybe when you get up and have a first cup of caffine), you stop making the same mistake. Or maybe you changed the environment by logging in and out.

zentara is right. The computer and the software that runs on it are deterministic. Something has changed. If it isn't the code then it is either the environment or you.

Best, beth

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