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0 pointsIIAOPSW3y ago0 comments

When I was a kid I used to wonder how everything worked and would disassemble things to find out. Started to take apart those disposable cameras people used to use for vacation photos. Learned the painful way what a capacitor is and how it discharges enough electricity to make that camera flash in a hurry.

So my recommendation is electro-shock therapy. Self administered of course.

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incanus773y ago

Ha, excellent.

I have pretty good mechanical sense & experience and can reason through how things work. I guess I just want to get better?

But this applies to thinking that gets you into a rut working on a bug. Sometimes es I find that if I would have stopped, backed up, and thought through the whole stack more critically, I would have gotten the fix faster.

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