Why does std::chrono::system_clock::now() move backwards inside a running C++ program on some Linux systems?

Summary std::chrono::system_clock can move backwards on Linux because it reflects the system’s real-time clock, which can be adjusted by NTP or other time-correction mechanisms. When the OS steps the clock backward, your process observes that jump. It is not monotonic and never guaranteed to be. For monotonic timestamps, use std::chrono::steady_clock. Root Cause The backward time … Read more

How to spread Jobs on multiple frames?

Summary The job system completed all work in a single frame because no asynchronous boundary existed between scheduling and completion. Unity’s Job System will happily execute all pending jobs immediately in the same frame if the main thread becomes idle or if the job dependencies allow it. The result is that work you expected to … Read more

How to navigate to clazy warning in Qt Creator?

Summary A misalignment between Qt Creator’s diagnostic ingestion pipeline and clazy’s export‑fixes behavior prevents non‑fixit clazy warnings from appearing in the Issues pane. Qt Creator only displays diagnostics that arrive through its structured export‑file mechanism, but clazy emits structured data only for warnings that have fixits, leaving all other warnings stranded in the Application Output … Read more

Why does POSIXlt behavior differ in R when its S3 class is lost inside of vs. outside of a data.frame?

Summary This incident examines why POSIXlt behaves differently when its S3 class is lost inside vs. outside a data.frame. The behavior surprises many engineers because POSIXlt is a deeply nested list-based S3 class, and R’s assignment semantics interact with it in ways that differ from simpler S3 vectors. The result is inconsistent coercion: list‑coercion in … Read more

Android Zebra / WebView drops session cookie after AJAX login over intranet HTTP, works on desktop browsers (SameSite/Secure?)

Summary The issue at hand involves an inconsistent login behavior on a Zebra PDA using an Android embedded browser or WebView when accessing a web app over plain HTTP on an intranet IP. The login is handled via AJAX, and the server returns a success response with a Set-Cookie header. However, the session cookie is … Read more

Inline Assembly Bug in gcc?

Summary This incident analyzes a subtle inline assembly constraint bug that appears only under GCC with high optimization levels. The program prints garbage instead of “Hello, World!\n” when compiled with -O3, even though it works correctly with -O0 and under Clang. The failure stems from incorrect assumptions about how GCC allocates registers for inline assembly … Read more

Refresh only measures in Power BI

Summary This incident examines why Power BI Desktop performs a full model refresh when connected to SSAS Tabular—even when the user only changes measures—and why this leads to multi‑minute refresh delays. The core issue is that Power BI Desktop does not support “measure‑only refresh” when connected live to SSAS or when using imported metadata. Root … Read more

How to Display Shopify Variants on Collections Pages

Summary Issue: Shopify collection pages fail to display product variants due to incorrect Liquid template modifications in main-collection.liquid. Root Cause: Misuse of content_for and incorrect variant loop implementation. Impact: Broken collection pages, rendering errors, and missing variant data. Root Cause Incorrect content_for Usage: The content_for ‘block’, type: ‘filters’ block was mistakenly modified, causing Shopify to … Read more

How to render mean/sd for some variables and median/1st quartile/3rd quartile for other variables in table1 package

Summary This incident examines a subtle but common failure mode in data‑rendering pipelines: a single global rendering function was expected to handle heterogeneous statistical formats, leading to duplicated output, inconsistent formatting, and brittle logic. The system behaved exactly as designed—but not as intended. Root Cause The root cause was a misuse of the render.continuous hook … Read more