Generator Grounded Into a Bucket of Dirt: Hardware Engineering at Its Finest

Description

A 4chan post (No.95242799, dated 08/08/23) showing a photograph of a portable generator sitting on a metal grate platform in an industrial setting. The generator's grounding wire runs into a white bucket filled with dirt, serving as a makeshift electrical ground. The filename reads 'Generator-grounded-into-bucket-with-dirt.jpg' (111 KB JPG). The green-text comment reads '>not using wireless ground,' sarcastically mocking the setup while also implying there could be an even lazier solution. The image captures a real-world hardware hack that technically provides some grounding but is wildly unsafe and non-compliant with any electrical code

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick This is the hardware equivalent of catching all exceptions with an empty block -- technically it handles the problem, but nobody should ever ship it to production

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This is the hardware equivalent of catching all exceptions with an empty block -- technically it handles the problem, but nobody should ever ship it to production
Anonymous

This setup is the hardware equivalent of catching exceptions with `except Exception: pass`. It appears to handle the problem, but when something actually goes wrong, the results will be electrifyingly catastrophic