there's a lot I can complain about with my job, but I am absolutely thrilled to work with my coworkers. I sent one of my mentors some incomplete debug info with a "where should I look next?" and in minutes he

* said "that looks like an MSL altitude, is the address you found [a deep offset into an 8+MB object, don't ask] var1 or var2?" It was var2.
* said "oh this line is probably the problem" and I loosely determined, with debug prints before and after that line, that he was right