There’s also websites hosted in countries that don’t care about US law. We can access those even without a VPN, for now…
There’s also websites hosted in countries that don’t care about US law. We can access those even without a VPN, for now…
That’s a good example. If I’m regularly running a command that is a single whitespace character away from disaster, that’s a problem.
Imagine a fighter aircraft that had an eject button on the side of the flight stick. The pilot complains “I’m afraid I might accidentally hit the eject button when I don’t need to”, but everyone responds “why would you push the eject button if you don’t want to eject?”, or “so your concern is that the eject button will cause you to eject…?” – That’s how I feel right now.
Just checked my command history and I’ve run 60,000 commands on this computer without problem (and I have other computers). I guess people have different ideas of what “comfortable” means, but I think I consider myself comfortable with the command line.
I have shot myself in the foot with rm -rf
in the past though, and screwed up my computer so bad the easiest solution was to reinstall the OS from scratch. My important files are backed up, including most of my dotfiles, but being a bit too quick to type and run a rm -rf
command has caused me needless hours of work in the past.
I realized the main reason I have to use rm -rf
is to remove git repos and so I thought I’d ask if anyone has a tip to avoid it. And I’ve found some good suggestions among the least upvoted comments.
That’s a good suggestion for some, but I’m quite comfortable with the command line.
It’s not that I’m irrationally scared of rm -rf
. I know what that command will do. If I slow down an pay attention it’s not as though I’m worried “I hope this doesn’t break my system”.
What I really mean is I see myself becoming quite comfortable typing rm -rf
and running it with little thought, I use it often to delete git repos, and my frequent use and level of comfort with this command doesn’t match the level of danger it brings.
Just moving them to /tmp
is a nice suggestion that can work on anywhere without special programs or scripts.
More like, I’m afraid of the command doing more than I’m trying to do.
What I want to do is ignore prompts about write-protected files in the .git
directory, what it does is ignore all prompts for all files.
Senior developer here, it looks like they are helping to me.
Careful, the 100,000 kg of pizza will turn into manure.
Programmer pay is so bizarre, it makes me cynical about our entire economy.
If I’m a blue-collar worker maintaining the wires between banks, I get paid little. If I’m a programmer maintaining the banking software that controls everyone’s money and is essential to the entire nation, I’m paid a little more, but not as much as some programmers.
If I’m a young man who creates a webpage that barely works venture capitalists are tripping over themselves trying to shove millions of dollars into my hands.
(Although, creating a webpage was the hot thing last decade, now the hot thing is creating an AI.)
We should measure size of files/storage as a function of how many
standardizedpng’s of an american flag would fit in the same amount of space.
Fixed it, I will not be oppressed by your standards
To become a real programmer, you must install Copilot and let it copy and paste for you.
Why doesn’t JavaScript have tracebacks?
I think the joke is that the Jr. Developer sits there looking at the screen, a picture of a cat appears, and the Jr. Developer types “cat” on the keyboard then presses enter. Boom, AI in action!
The truth behind the joke is that many companies selling “AI” have lots of humans doing tasks like this behind the scene. “AI” is more likely to get VC money though, so it’s “AI”, I promise.
I feel like such a fool
The CEOs face the day he realizes all it takes to automate his company is a personal computer: 😃
The CEOs face the day after he realizes all it takes to automate his company is a personal computer: 🫠
Can’t people just hold it for 80 years until they die?
People were staring at you because the sound of piss entering the toilet was loud? Did they not know that’s how pissing works?
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Was he a Go developer before generics? Published 4000 versions of the library, one for each type.
We’re seeing more and more that our “free market” with its “competition” doesn’t provide goods and services that most people want, which makes me wonder, why have free markets and competition?