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How to admit that a problem requires expensive hardware changes

I have been debugging this intermittent timing issue for three weeks and I am starting to suspect it might be a hardware race condition but admitting that means we have to respin the board.

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You suspect the real problem is one nobody wants to hear, because fixing it would be expensive.

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