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The Kiss of Death
- GlenTheMachine 5y agoMy lab in grad school built a - for us - quite expensive submersible robot. At one point we managed to set the embedded computer box on fire. My advisor physically restrained us from grabbing the fire extinguisher, and made us let the fire burn out. It was simpler to process the PRs for new computer hardware than the paperwork for a fire extinguisher deployment.
- jareklupinski 5y agoi'm printing that last line out and gluing it to my wall
- mbirth 5y agoIf it was a powder extinguisher, I can totally understand this.
- jxramos 5y agoBut I was mad about the cost of it all, motivated, and ready to be simple. What a statement, ready to be simple, that's the take home message.
- gwern 5y agoHm... Some of these might be better described as "Worse is Better", particularly the floating-point one.