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Oops! I didn’t test my hand-written assembly code before hooking it up to a radiation gun, hopefully it isn’t possible to have my power variables underflow and cook a man
Also, we removed all of the hardware safeties that would prevent this from happening and entrusted it all to software.
Wow. You must have very stringent software engineering practices, with multiple levels of checks and test proce—
What? No, we just had one guy write all of the system’s code. It’s probably fine, right?