[ethbro]

Software perspective: Fatal error, I'll just make a change and recompile.

Hardware perspective: CPU cooked itself because frequency regulation was accidentally turned off, time to wait for new parts from China + assembly.

It always amuses me how laisez faire folks are about things like ESD. "It's never caused a problem before" isn't a reason to ignore best practices and not work defensively.

[Kenji]

> "It's never caused a problem before" isn't a reason to ignore best practices and not work defensively.

It is if working defensively is costlier than replacing the odd broken part.