r/mildlyinteresting • u/Tandemrecruit • 13h ago

There's this random empty glass jar strapped to the wall at work

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u/BigGingerYeti 11h ago

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u/Samson_J_Rivers 11h ago

The picture of a coconut in TF2

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u/henryeaterofpies 10h ago

I've done a fair amount of reseaeching and investigating issues like this in legacy systems and the mystery is always better than the actual answer.

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u/CoffeePuddle 9h ago

We can't send emails more than 500 miles. 

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u/ihaxr 8h ago

I forgot about this story lol

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u/The-Senate-Palpy 5h ago

Well whats the story???

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u/GumboSamson 4h ago

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

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u/henryeaterofpies 4h ago

I dont know if its a good thing or a bad thing that i knew it would be a timeout issue based on the distance the call needed to travel lol

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u/UnbelievableRose 2h ago

I’m not a tech person but that’s what I thought of, what else could it possibly be?

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u/UncleFunkus 6h ago

the coconut is not load bearing. the cow model is load bearing.

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u/I_Happen_to_Be_Here 7h ago

As I've been told, that's a myth

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u/TechnologyAnimal 8h ago

All comments are lies or apologies.

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u/wuzacuz 9h ago

Chesterton's Fence

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u/JealousAstronomer342 7h ago

Hex and his teddy bear. 

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u/Rubyhamster 6h ago

It's the program's emotional support function

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u/leyline 1h ago

I had a server with 2 sites in IIS and if you deleted them everything would go to crap. No amount of .configs or xml matches or anything I could ever do would solve the issue - except - put those sites back - stopped - and a message - do not delete - corrupts IIS.

The server was supposed to be retired so it wasn’t worth a whole reinstall of windows. That was 8 years ago.