David Kastrup wrote:
John Bokma<j...@castleamber.com> writes:
On the other hand: some people I knew during my studies had no problem
at all with introducing countless memory leaks in small programs (and
turning off compiler warnings, because it gave so much noise...)
[...]
As for electrical engineering: done that (BSc) and one of my class
mates managed to connect a transformer the wrong way
around.... twice. Yet he had the highest mark in our class.
Anybody worth his salt in his profession has a trail of broken things in
his history. The faster it thinned out, the better he learned. The
only reliable way never to break a thing is not to touch it in the first
place. But that will not help you if it decides to break on its own.
*LOL* !!!
I remember the day a very senior field service engineer for a
multi-national minicomputer mfg plugged 16k (or was it 32k) of
core (back when a core was visible to naked eye ;) the wrong way
into a backplane. After the smoke cleared ... snicker snicker.
I also remember writing a failure report because someone
installed a grounding strap 100 degrees out of orientation on a
piece of multi kV switchgear.(don't recall nominal capacity, buck
backup generator was rated for 1.5 MW continuous ;) P.S. failure
was demonstrated as manufacturer's senior sales rep was
demonstrating how easy it was to do maintenance on the system.
There were times I had fun writing up inspection reports.
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