On: Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font

[izzydata]

I love it when you are troubleshooting and question how it ever worked in the first place.

[KGIII → izzydata]

The average person is amazed when tech breaks. Those who understand it, are amazed it works at all.

[_cereal → izzydata]

Sounds like a schroedinbug:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/schroedinbug.html

[lokedhs → _cereal]

If someone had not heard of that one before, it should not be confused with a Heisenbug, which is approximately the opposite thing.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html

[Too → izzydata]

The famous Six Stages of Debugging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6477187

    1. That can't happen.
    2. That doesn't happen on my machine.
    3. That shouldn't happen.
    4. Why does that happen?
    5. Oh, I see.
    6. How did that ever work?

[stavros → izzydata]

I've never felt so alone as when I'm worried that a think that shouldn't work, does.

[atsaloli → izzydata]

I know.. blows my mind sometimes.