"heisenbug" meaning in English

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          "text": "There are multiple perf related issues like this that are hard to track down. They are borderline heisenbugs that are possibly race conditions, so bisecting doesn't work and even things like enablibg ftrace will make the issue go away (or crash ftrace itself).",
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        "(computing) A software bug which fails to manifest itself or manifests differently during debugging."
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