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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

The personal twist for me in this was that I my father was actually a professional electrician, hence knew far more about what he was doing when dealing with house wiring than me a recently graduated EE with a digital systems specialization.

(In compensation I knew far more about electronics and especially CPUs than he did).