Because computer engineers and analog components don't mix. >.<
I reached into the board trying to connect to the JTAG pins and ZAP!
Fucking capacitors.
Just shocked the shit out of myself at work...
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Falco Girgis
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Re: Just shocked the shit out of myself at work...
Ouchie. What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger though.
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Re: Just shocked the shit out of myself at work...
Remember kids, say no to drugs, and always discharge your capacitors.
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Re: Just shocked the shit out of myself at work...
nice 
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IRC wrote: <sparda> The routine had a stack overflow, sorry.
<sparda> Apparently the stack was full of shit.
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Re: Just shocked the shit out of myself at work...
My Dad told me a story from when he used to work with hardware (he was an electrical engineer). Apparently, he got the nickname "sparky" because he reached into a piece of equipment with a screwdriver and there was enough energy stored up it arc-welded the screwdriver and the equipment together.
I'm lucky he wasn't the one shocked, otherwise I might not be here
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Re: Just shocked the shit out of myself at work...
Haha, nice.
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Re: Just shocked the shit out of myself at work...
Yeah, I was taking the film out of a disposable camera and the capacitor that stores the flash charge shocked me. It was nowhere as bad as when I was 4 and put a screwdriver up to a live wire in a outlet. Plastic handles and breakers save lives.