My views on engineering safety are heavily influenced by the gentleman who accurately observed, during safety orientations, that every machine in his factory could kill you. Do you give a red-tagged device with an ambiguous UI to untrained employees prior to training? Eff no.
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For similar reasons, my first job in Japan wouldn't give you a badge to the server room until you understood: a) protocol in event of the most hazardous thing likely to uniquely happen in a server room (a fire) b) what *exactly* the Big Red Button did
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It's sort of important to understand that server rooms have several genres of Big Red Button attached to them, some of which don't kill everyone in the server room.
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"TLDR ...gimme the file"
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I always remember the technical writing parable where a sign said “CAUTION: Under certain circumstances, lethal voltages may be present on components of the MA-21 apparatus” had a handwritten sign over it saying “LOOK OUT touching this can kill you!”
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