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by FuriouslyAdrift 339 days ago
You're not really a sysadmin until you take down prod and not really a network engineer until you cut off your arm (drop a router connect with no way back in) or cause an STP storm. I'm sure there are more examples...

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zem 338 days ago
> cut off your arm

in one of my first jobs we used to call that "the kalidas problem", after an old indian legend about the great playwright kalidas being a fool in his youth, and cutting off the branch of a tree while sitting on it. https://www.indiaparenting.com/the-legend-of-kalidas.html

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doubled112 339 days ago
My team is in charge of infrastructure so most of us do everything. Sometimes I get to take down prod AND cut myself off from the network in one move.

Why is every service on this site alerting? All I did was plug something in. Maybe that cable wasn't labelled correctly after all, proof is in the results.

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