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> "The fact that they were both at exactly 23 seconds is probably just a crazy coincidence"

Immediately brought a smile to my face. This profession makes us detail-oriented detectives. It's a joyful power and a powerful joy :-) Now I know it's not a good personality trait. I guess one's hobbies should ideally be complete opposites, based on intuition and a feel for things.

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I can definitely relate. This sort of pattern recognition is a blessing and a curse... it's great when it saves some time during the hypothesizing phase, but not so great when it leads you on a wild goose chase :)

https://xkcd.com/2259/

I found that one just after spending all day chasing an odd WAN issue for a customer. A few years ago in the era of half/full duplex in ethernet, duplex mismatches sometimes manifested in some truly weird ways. It was at that point that I did start to believe in ghosts. At least ghosts in the network.

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