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Re:Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? by cafard on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:46AM (#27303774)
A shirt-tail relative worked on a metal press in the one-button days. It cost him part of a finger or two.
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Re:Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? by myself248 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:37PM (#27311161)
> A shirt-tail relative

What does this mean?

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Re:Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? by zerocrates on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:02AM (#27312521)
It's another way of saying a distant relative.
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