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by lisper 920 days ago
"I know, I'll use NAT!" Now you have two problems.

(Just in case you don't recognize the allusion:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/what-...

2 comments

Posts from Ars say, pre-2018/2017 should be left alone. No need to remind ourselves about how far they've fallen.
I immediately thought of this line from my favorite episode of Everybody Love Raymond. Ray's dad says: "Didn't I teach you anything, you gotta problem with your woman you don't go out and get another one. Then you got two problems."

That episode aired in 2001. I wonder if the NAT quote is inspired by that?

The original quote was about regexps, not NAT. But I have no idea whether JWZ invented it or was took it from ELR.