*launch software*
> goes tits up with no info
*restart machine, launch software*
> still goes tits up
*su to the user it runs as and run it manually because fuck you shitstaind*
> still goes tits up
*launch with debug logs enabled*
> suddenly works

What is this black magic?!

Probably a reeaallyy fucked up if-statement.

It knew you were into finding its sins

You're debugging it so it hid itself from showing what it really did when you were not watching.

Guys, it's alive!!

If (!debugEnabled() && rand.nextInt() % 13 == 0) { runProperly(); }

Race condition? If you're building it from source try building with debug and no optimization and see if it works. Optimizing compilers can get a bit eager sometimes (trigger optimizations assuming undefined behaviour won't happen, etc.), somebody might've forgotten to mark something volatile (if it's C/C++).

Quantum software. Behaves differently when observed.

Tits

@sideways I will definitely use that.

I wrote a program once which wouldn't run without a System.out.println("initialized"); right after it had initialized everything and was about to run the main program loop.

They know you’re watching now lol