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Not a project, and a second hand story that I'm sure a lot of people can recognize.

But I knew a sysadmin at a large european educational institution whose only job it was to hit up-arrow and enter a few times a day when a server crashed.

They knew how to fix this too, they just didn't care. And nobody else had enough experience to understand.



This actually really common eventually every devops guy in over their heads becomes a human deadman’s switch.


A bit like Lost (TV Series)




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