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by glonq 1059 days ago
> "Every time Software is used to fix a [Electrical/Mechanical] problem, a Gremlin is born"

Early in my career, I was confused by seemingly-crazy questions in the Hacker Test (https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/hacker.htm) like...

> 0133 Ever fix a hardware problem in software?

> 0134 ... Vice versa?

But after spending years developing embedded systems, I don't even blink at such questions. Yes, of course I have committed such necessarily evils!