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by hyperhello 639 days ago
“ I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem. Not an artistic judgement.”

Then what is it?

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John Mulaney - The Salt and Pepper Diner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYIwPu50Fic

"For years, scientists have wondered: 'Can you make grown men and women weep tears of joy by playing Tom Jones' It's Not Unusual?' And the answer is yes, you can, as long as it's preceded by 7 What's New Pussycats."

A desire to generally not listen to one song loudly over and over? I think after the 1000th time, anyone is going to fall out of love with any song.
My car stereo likes to automatically play the first alphabetical song in my phone's music library when I start it. Kind of annoying, but not enough to replace it over.
Yeah, I had to listen to part of the All-4-One version of I Swear hundreds of times while reproducing a bug. It's not pleasant.
I would not have wanted to be in a laboratory that is set up to play my most favorite song very loudly over and over again, either.

I don't think it's an artistic judgement.

If you were setting this up in a lab to test you'd be playing the same song on repeat trying to recreate the circumstances and effect, possibly at different volumes and playback speeds and other things until you isolated a particular portion that caused the crash. Then you'd play back that portion. And all of this would be at a level people could hear. So you'd be hearing the same song over and over in an otherwise quiet lab. Even if you liked the song, you'd hate it by the end of the day (or spend the day wearing earplugs).
One of the reasons why Cortana was deprecated was the reports of beleaguered IT professionals having to listen to dozens of chattering Cortanas as they set up a fleet of new corporate laptops.
I don't want to sit next to a cannon when it's going off. No artistic judgement on the 1812 overture; I just don't wanna be there.
I just read it as “I am glad I did not have to debug/troubleshoot such a crazy-sounding crash” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯