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		atoav on Nov 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild The hard things about C are knowing all these footguns you are getting yourself into. If our electrical grid was built like this we had no isolation, no fuses, no RCDs and a constant torrent of electrocutions and fires. It is bad engineering.

fps_doug on Nov 28, 2022 [–]

... and people defending the status quo because "you just have to know how electricity works" :-)

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