• Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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    9 days ago

    Imagine if there was an accidental nuclear strike because the government refused to spring for $0.01 worth of panel fasteners and the industry standard will-only-fail-once-every-million-years arrangement hit that one-in-a-million situation.

    Penny-wise and pound-foolish.

    • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I’m not thinking of upfront cost, I’m thinking about the engineer that needs to constantly change drivers to access something. Huge pain in the ass, plus a higher chance of FOD.