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Old 06-23-2020, 01:39 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
The OP has various weird performance things on in general that I cant replicate. See his other thread.
I am the king of weird questions. In my day job I called one of my service providers and he told me he loves my calls. "Either it's something simple that you know about and don't have access to[1], or I get to learn something because you find the weirdest cases."

[1] in this case, online credit card processing. I know (knew; I left that job three years ago) about each of the merchant account settings, from years of working with them, getting them set up, and testing them... but I don't have access to all of the configuration settings. So I'd call and ask for specific values for settings that most people don't know about.

One time I called up and asked for a specific configuration change that the support tech didn't even know about. "Okay, ask [your supervisor] about it and he can show you how." I got call back from the supervisor a short time later. "Dude, can you not do that? you're freaking out my staff."
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