Easter Egging N. [IBM] The Act Of Replacing Unrelated Components More Or Less At Random In Hopes That A Malfunction Will Go Away.

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Easter egging n.

[IBM] The act of replacing unrelated
components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will
go away. Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of
field circus techs and do not love them for it. See also the
jokes under field circus. Compare shotgun debugging

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