- 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 22•6 months ago
If it doesn’t work, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
This simple advice has saved me from countless analysis paralysis problems.
electrocuted
You mean shocked.
If you got electrocuted, you’d be dead.
Look up the definition. It’s changed to include severe injury from electricity.
Prescriptivism vs descriptivism.
The technical definition is as I described above.
It’s only been expanded in common dictionaries because the dictionaries practice descriptivism, i.e. they reflect not what is the best definition, but how it’s most often used.
In other words, just because it’s in the dictionary doesn’t mean the word means that in a technical context; it just means that’s how it’s commonly meant when used in everyday parlance.
- Glaive0 ( @Glaive0@beehaw.org ) 12•6 months ago
I use “Observational Maintenance” all the time:
When you ask someone to look at a problem and it’s fixed by the time they do.
A friend showed me an issue they’d been having for over a YEAR. I did almost NOTHING and it was working by the time I looked at it.
More often than not it’s me that looks dumb, though.p
- deadbeef79000 ( @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ) 11•6 months ago
My personal favourite is “structural integrity failure”.
Applies to sandwiches as well as anything.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English5•6 months ago
I’m pretty fond of “unscheduled lithobraking” (it crashed).
- JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) 10•6 months ago
I heard the three basic rules from somewhere:
- Always use the right tool for the job
- A hammer is always the right tool
- Every tool is a hammer
- dukatos ( @dukatos@lemm.ee ) 6•6 months ago
AFAIK, that is Russian rules of maintenance. Oh, and point 3 is: anything can be a hammer.
I see you’re an Indian developer.
- ornery_chemist ( @ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ) 9•6 months ago
Pure by ocular spectroscopy = it looked good enough
Pharma distillation = tossing the chemical and buying a new bottle from Sigma
Retro-retro-Cope rearrangement = no reaction happened, go home and cry
- Radiant_sir_radiant ( @Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org ) 9•6 months ago
I also like RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly).
- redcalcium ( @redcalcium@lemmy.institute ) 8•6 months ago
Something moves where it shouldn’t? Apply tapes.
Something doesn’t move where it should? Apply WD-40.
Don’t forget to add actual lubricant to the thing that should be moving.
- kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 4•6 months ago
“client billing issue,” “client legal issue,” and “safety compliance issue” are my personal favorites
- BolexForSoup ( @BolexForSoup@kbin.social ) 4•6 months ago
Duct tapeGaff tape. You’re welcome.