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> On this day, I highlighted her workstation and hit the F6 key to reset. But my screen went temporarily black and then seemed to be starting again. I realized that I had mistakenly hit F7 and reset all the workstations in the embassy.

Ugh.

Those with automation capabilities: keep this lesson in mind, because it will happen to you in production one day. 'dsh -a reboot' is incredibly easy to type and can have disastrous effects. Creating abstraction layers around common admin tasks can help catch simple mistakes and give prompts before dangerous behavior.




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