I remember my friend was having an issue and I am walking him through how to fix it. I tell him exactly what to do, watch him do it exactly, and it kept failing.
I take over, do the exact same thing I just had him do 3 times which didn’t work, but when I did it it worked. We were both confused as fuck. He appears to be one of those people that technology never seems to work around.
I have the fun privilege at work these days of being the guy who sometimes makes things work just by walking in the room.
It feels like a tale as old as time. I’m one of the few software engineers working on the embedded code in our new product, and occasionally a technician or V&V tester or different discipline engineer will ask me to look at something acting funny. And I fully believe them, not just because they have no reason to lie but because “acting funny” is exactly the lifestyle our system is living!
Sometimes I get to lean on my experience with the code, then glare at something on the screen and say I don’t trust it, and that leads us to the fix. But about half the time, just sensing that somebody called daddy into the room makes it stand up straight and stop fucking around, lol.
This became a running joke with an old boss. He told me when I started that he was a human EMP for electronics. He wasn’t lying. Just the most baffling problems constantly. Then he’d joke that I needed to touch it and sure enough, it’d work for me. I once watched him enter his password 3 times. It didn’t work. I did it. It worked. I watched his damn fingers.
We have a friend who’s banned from touching the music at partys because he will find a way to accidentally delete the playlist, no matter what we do to make it idiot proof.
I think the password is a timing thing. When I type in the same password that failed but slower, it works. I suspect I’m probably brushing another key when fast typing.
Ah, yes. Long time ago I had a friend for whom USB sticks would only mount read-only. I’d take out the stick, put it back in, and it would mount writable.
Shit, some people are just hated by computers.
I remember my friend was having an issue and I am walking him through how to fix it. I tell him exactly what to do, watch him do it exactly, and it kept failing.
I take over, do the exact same thing I just had him do 3 times which didn’t work, but when I did it it worked. We were both confused as fuck. He appears to be one of those people that technology never seems to work around.
I have the fun privilege at work these days of being the guy who sometimes makes things work just by walking in the room.
It feels like a tale as old as time. I’m one of the few software engineers working on the embedded code in our new product, and occasionally a technician or V&V tester or different discipline engineer will ask me to look at something acting funny. And I fully believe them, not just because they have no reason to lie but because “acting funny” is exactly the lifestyle our system is living!
Sometimes I get to lean on my experience with the code, then glare at something on the screen and say I don’t trust it, and that leads us to the fix. But about half the time, just sensing that somebody called daddy into the room makes it stand up straight and stop fucking around, lol.
This became a running joke with an old boss. He told me when I started that he was a human EMP for electronics. He wasn’t lying. Just the most baffling problems constantly. Then he’d joke that I needed to touch it and sure enough, it’d work for me. I once watched him enter his password 3 times. It didn’t work. I did it. It worked. I watched his damn fingers.
We have a friend who’s banned from touching the music at partys because he will find a way to accidentally delete the playlist, no matter what we do to make it idiot proof.
I think the password is a timing thing. When I type in the same password that failed but slower, it works. I suspect I’m probably brushing another key when fast typing.
They need to offer more prayers to the Machine Spirit
Ah, yes. Long time ago I had a friend for whom USB sticks would only mount read-only. I’d take out the stick, put it back in, and it would mount writable.