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Murphy's Law has electrical engineering roots. I have a fun anecdote.[0] My wife is electromechanical and I'm computer science so we would work on projects together since we make a good team. I remember in college I was working with my wife on one of her projects and we were using force transducers. The damn things kept breaking at the worst times so we kept calling it Murphy's Law. After a while we looked it up. Turns out Murphy was working with transducers when he coined the phrase [1]. So I have this little back pocket anecdote about the time I got to use Murphy's Law in the original context. Which I can bring out in times just like this.

[0] I think it is fun. Your milage may vary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law




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