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One of the most painful things I've ever done: Back in my intern
days, I worked on embedded systems that used a lot of UV-erasable
EPROMs. We always put a label over the window after burning them,
with the software build number, the socket number, and the date.
During development, we frequently re-used them. That meant
scraping the labels off the windows, a bitch of a job and the perfect
thing to assign to an intern. We used alcohol and Xacto knives to
do that. Usually, we put them in a fixture to hold them down, but one
day I was in a hurry and I tried to scrape one while I held the EPROM
in my hand. I scraped towards my thumb and...