@beyondmachines1 There's a University in the US (forgot which one), where the tech support people at the computing center (this was a time of mainframes, no PCs yet) had a stuffed bear at a prominent place. The students coming with a help request were required to explain their problem to the stuffed bear first. Only if they didn't realize how to solve it as a result, they were allowed to bother a human.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Variations of that old chestnut abound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

@mrfoostang @bontchev @relay @beyondmachines1 For me, it’s whenever I am getting frustrated and start to compose an email to describe the problem to a coworker. I average about 3 sentences in before I realize there’s some detail I still need to check

@[email protected] @[email protected] @mrfoostang @[email protected] However it happens, it’s a totally legit debugging technique 😁

@mrfoostang @arrakeen_urbanite @[email protected] @[email protected] Also, as always, you don't ever learn a subject as thoroughly as by teaching it.