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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real metric is dollars per second of destroyed hardware ;)

I once watched an engineer blow up a $200k prototype with a terminal alias.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's impressive. I'm glad I don't have any story to match that. Hopefully they find it hilarious now. Probably no fun at the time.