Fat-finger Vt. 1. To Introduce A Typo While Editing In Such A Way That The Resulting Manglification Of A Configuration File Does Something Useless, Damaging, Or Wildly Unexpected.

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fat-finger vt.

1. To introduce a typo while editing in such
a way that the resulting manglification of a configuration file
does something useless, damaging, or wildly unexpected. "NSI
fat-fingered their DNS zone file and took half the net down
again." 2. More generally, any typo that produces dramatically
bad results.

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