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Huh? What does one mean by using the verb "self-destruct" transitively?
by xhevahir 3y ago
Huh? What does one mean by using the verb "self-destruct" transitively?
- sesm 3y agoI think they mean "destroys", but they don't want Flipper to look evil, they want the smart-meter to look fragile instead, so this unusual wording is used.
- jobigoud 3y agoYeah it's pretty weird. With the word "suicide" it's sometimes used in this way to mean that one is pushed to commit the act by someone else. (Maybe more so in other languages where the verb is to suicide oneself). So it could mean that one device tricked the other into running a self-destruct command. But in the OP one device is sending commands that directly result in the bricking.