Brings back memories of watching my old man fix a guitar once and he muttered something about "the wood telling you where it wants to go" - totally lost on me at the time. @claire999 mentioning woodworkers makes perfect sense because they live and breathe grain direction all day. Never realized binders could miss that too until I tried making a sketchbook last year and the covers kept warping like crazy. My brother, who builds cabinets, saw it and just shook his head. Said the same thing your dad did, just in a more annoyed tone.

Haven't you ever had a close call with radio interference or line-of-sight issues on a ground remote? I'd take the ladder climb any day over trusting a signal that could drop out when you're swinging a load over a crew.

Did he at least get the smoke back in before it quit completely, or was it gone for good? I've seen cheap meters read wildly wrong on voltage before they actually let the magic smoke out, which is almost scarier. Was he able to tell it was going bad by the readings or did it just give up mid-discharge with no warning?

Hold up, 89 ft-lb on a 6.7 injector clamp? Dude that's crazy. I remember when that bulletin dropped and a few guys at our shop were still using the old spec until someone got a call from Cummins about a warranty claim. The fact that you went four years without anyone catching it is wild but honestly super common. I bet you're not the only one who missed that update, especially since they didn't make a huge noise about it. Good thing you caught it now before those hairline cracks turned into a bigger headache down the road.

I saw this dev talk recently where a guy said the first time you run new code it's basically just "confession time" for all your assumptions. Seriously, my record was 47 errors off a 200 line script. The real god move is writing tests as you go, but who actually does that on the first sprint, right? What was your worst bug count on a first run?