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A developer is surprised that improper electrical infrastructure causes systemic computer malfunctions. Surprised enough to write an article about it.

I feel like this just perfectly summarizes my early years in the tech field, back when I was a screwdriver jockey and spent my afternoons diving under desks. "Why yes, person who gets paid more than twice what I do- spilling a chai latte on your laptop keyboard does mean that it has to go away to a computer hospital for a bit, and no, I cannot magically go back in time and make a copy of all of your important files on an external hard drive for you."

To the author: no hard feelings- I love devs. But just like you might be surprised at the person struggling to write a simple be five-line bash script, sometimes the hardware-oriented folks are surprised at what doesn't occur as an obvious issue to others.




What's surprising is how subtle the failure started.


You may be surprised at shell script knowledge among devs.




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