🎵 There’s only wi-fi when it rains… 🎵 “The rain held up for about an hour, and so did the internet connection.” Love a good tech debugging story — they always remind me of The Case of the 500-Mile Email.
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Also a big fan of the "car allergic to vanilla ice cream" story: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt
There's a site dedicated to stories about absurd bugs like these, 500 Mile Email, named after the famous tale of debugging a campus email system that wouldn't send an email to servers that were more than 500 miles away.
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