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, nice! A few more you can add in: stuck switches, loose USB plugs, bad pixels, lossy compression artifacts, off-by-one errors.
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also: biting your own tongue, calling someone by the wrong name, forgetting why you walked into a room, chewing with your mouth open.
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then there are ones that cross over: hard to remember passwords, dry skin that can't make touchscreens work, domain typos & homographs.
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Ah, almost forgot crossovers Reply-To munging and Reply All floods.
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man, you've really thought about this a lot :D I found it much more of a strain to come up with good examples
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Joel's leaky abstractions idea fits my brain. Also: literal humor, puns, rules lawyering, unintended consequences, externalities, etc.
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