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I find really amusing the software troubleshooting assistance I get from my wife. Like, I ask her "why does the handler here capture the event two times, when the logs clearly see only one trigger?"
I don't even give her a context, just a sentence out of the blue, and she's not a techie, she doesn't understand most of the stuff I do at work.
But she often accepts the game and just answers with a random "have you tried turning it off and on again" or "try deleting something" or repeat-and-negate a part of my sentence.
And then I step back and find that this leads me to a new way of thinking about the problem, and often, to a solution.
Maybe she's really so much better at software engineering then I am that I don't even understand how good she is.