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Okay, but what about humidity? I was excited to read about a failure mode where the moisture content of air mattered, or at least get mildly clickbaited into learning about a tool called Humidity. Instead there are no other references to humidity apart from the title




Too much humidity makes it rain, and rain can make the Wi-Fi work: https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/

I chose "Debugging Humidity" as a metaphor for all the invisible, pervasive environmental factors that you have to deal with in the physical world. Latency, power flicker, interference, etc. It's the "stuff in the air" that messes up clean logic.

The title was actually inspired by a real incident where a device kept failing every afternoon. We eventually realized that condensation from the facility's massive air conditioning unit was dripping onto the enclosure right above the SoC. We were, quite literally, debugging the effects of humidity. I should have included that story in the post itself.


The cloud is 100% humidity, I suppose.



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