Bryan Cantrill has this amazing talk about debugging where he tells the story of Three Mile Island.
After watching that talk all I thought was “well, let’s hope this doesn’t happen in my life”, and by “my life”, I meant my personal or work server, not my AFK life!
55 days ago my girlfriend and I moved to a new apartment downtown the capital. I like everything about this house, specially that many things are electric, including the stove.
Like a sane person, when I see a stove with multiple levels (1, 2, 3) I assume that the lowest number is the lowest and highest number is the highest.
Now you’d think and say “Antranig, didn’t you notice that your cooking was talking 2 hours, so there must be something wrong?”
Oh no, my friend, very much no. As you can see we have two stove tops, a small one and a big one. Now, the small one is working very fine. At the highest level it heats more than at lowest level.
But the big one, the big stove top, not so much.
We thought that there’s a problem with that top and used it only during slow emergencies.
One day I come home from work and Lilith is laughing. I asked “what happened?” and she replied “you’re not gonna believe this!”
Well she was right, it’s been couple of days now and I still can’t believe this. I mean if both of the stove tops were in reverse order, I would understand that someone was very Unix-y and they wanted to design it similar to nice.
But when each of those knobs are the exact opposite of each other, it makes you think, “why me?”
Why me indeed.
That’s all folks!