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by WastingMyTime89 1062 days ago
I admire your ability to find joy in these things.

At the beginning of my career, I once spent a week in a secure facility trying to understand an annoying network bug using tcpdump because we weren’t allowed to install wireshark. The whole thing turned out to be a combination of the worst bug I have ever seen in a standard library in our decade old version of GNAT (Ada lib - admittedly it had been corrected seven years before) and an ARP misconfiguration.

The whole week was awful and largely responsible for me moving on to greener pastures. It takes a special kind of character to enjoy these things.