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[–] 171 points 2 years ago (16 children)

I do industrial programming. Everything is so far behind that yelling at the "computers" does nothing. Physical violence is just about the only thing they respect.

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  • [–] 129 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Percussive maintenance is surprisingly helpful a lot of the time.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If the magic smoke comes out, that's entirely the electrician/electrical designer's fault. Their circuits shouldn't have let me do that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Hey now, the NEC provides ample protection against user stupidity, and I do my damndest to take it a step further. If a user is able to do something so catastrophically stupid despite me better engineering efforts, perhaps they should read up on darwinism.

    Signed, an electrician.

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