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oulu2006
This is just a click bait headline ...the article is rather silly and pointless.
Izikiel43
Another unit conversion issue.

It's research, just use international system units which are standard in science.

ethan_smith
SI units are standard in science, but the reality is many industrial systems, especially in the US, still run on imperial units with decades of legacy infrastructure and code that's expensive to migrate.
bot403
Clickbait headline. The mistake was a configuration issue in alerts that didn't matter at all that he spotted right away but intended to fix later.

Even the second mistake by the electrical contractor didn't result in any damages.

No meltdowns here. Just a funny coincidence.

hliyan
When reading the article, you realise that the techie who went home without fixing his mistake was not the developer whose Celsius/Fahrenheit change created the false alarms, but the electrician who tripped all the breakers in the building and went home without telling anyone.
a1studmuffin
I really hate the way The Register use terms like "techie" and "boffin". It always comes across to me as anti-intellectual.
Bender
Don't forget, "Fondle-Slab" for phones and tablets. I've got some people here in the US saying it now.