I've heard people say it, speaking like this: "This would be a great solution to the problem, except that it would break the admin dashboard. And billing. And SSO. And partner test environments. And. And. And. And. And. This would break so many things I'm sure I could only name half of them if I tried."

Agreed--it seems likely that the user was writing dialogue, taking minutes, or something similar.

Skilled speakers frequently use repetitions of a word (like 'and') as an interjection[0]. It's a handy way of giving yourself a second to think without saying 'uhh' or 'umm' (which, for whatever reason, are considered 'bad' interjections), and seems to be a kind of defense against being interrupted.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42822623 (a Meet the Press transcript which contains eight "and, and"s and one "and, and, and"!)

Yep. I've written that formulation many many times.

Years ago in school, maybe about 1992 or so, I managed to make xdm (X Display Manager) crash and dump me a root window by simply holding down a key until the buffer ran out. I remember wondering how anybody didn't discover this before me. Similar behavior with the university phone system (repeatedly pressing '0') eventually dropped me an outside line that I didn't have to pay for (yes, for you young folks, we used to have to pay for long distance phone calls, on phones that didn't fit in our pockets).

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843874

And another one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531140

Good to know the new guard is still leading the fight :)

I seem to remember that a few years ago some versions of either TouchWiz or Android, that you could overflow into unlocking the phone.

The number required was pretty high, but you could get to it by copy pasting an already typed (In the emergeny dialer) number for a while, crashing the lockscreen until the next reset

Sounds like CVE-2015-3860 [0].

[0] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3860

I always suspect that software I'm using is not really tested. If there are animations or whatever is happening asynchronously monkey bashing will trigger lots of issues.

When I was a teenager, I got dropped into a shell on a VAX by doing the same thing when it was trying to identify the terminal type.

I've had a stint or two doing QA.

At one such position (reasonably well-known product within the tech world), there was clear pushback not to file bugs of this nature.

I didn't stick with that position long.

You just reminded me what we found in college (on campus). We could dial out to the other college, then back into ours, and then externally to get free long distance calls.

Apparently from a poem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31278566

That comment is from the submitter of the issue (and HN post), the poem is from Eliza Callahan (copy found here): https://durationandthebodyelizacallahan.cargo.site

The relevant excerpt: "I thought about my body. It’s past. It’s present… Which made me think about the word and. And. And. And. And. And. Then."

This is just a transcript of a stutter. Too much for modern technology to handle. :)

C seems very likely to me. I often compulsively copy and paste things. You might not call it an error as such.

E) fidgeting/futzing with stuff mindlessly while in conversation/doing something else

personally, i've happened across some pretty serious security bugs this way.

Some more options: Just a demonstration of how Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V works. Literal transcript of a stammered conversation. Poetry / word-based art.

E) Children playing on the tablet/computer.

Option D is rather romantic. Poor robot fell in love with an NFA. He’ll never hear the end of it.

Fuzzing?

Writing a novel and a character within the novel has a stutter or is stammering.

The same way a lottery winner discovers the correct numbers