My back of the envelope worst case calculation indicates 2.8 million decillion decillion possible valid paths so in retrospect, yes it was a bad idea to try and enumerate these to a terminal.

Just when I think I have tricked the computer into finally doing what I want, it reveals that it has come up with a new way to fail obscurely and avoid detection.

My compute cluster is full of eels.

Resident Evil: A team of amnesiacs is deployed to an underground research facility to investigate failure to follow lab biosafety directives.

To whoever made the decision of allowing the ‘@’ symbol to appear in quality scores in FASTQ files, I will get you for this.