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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by the_watcher on Monday January 27, 2020 @01:37PM (#22162349)
Last Friday's xkcd happens to be very relevant! https://xkcd.com/2259/
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by AceJohnny2 on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:40PM (#22164103)
And that XKCD reminded me of a couple other seminal debugging stories:

- "The Case of the 500-mile email" https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

- Brendan Gregg demonstrates the effect of screaming at hard drives: https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4

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