[ninefathom]

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.

[dehrmann]

What's surprising is how subtle the failure started.

[sgarland]

You may be surprised at shell script knowledge among devs.