1 yr. ago • 95%

A new way of programming

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print "hello world";

or else;

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Like back in the day when the Romans would have the engineer stand underneath the bridge while it was tested.

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  Sounds good, the finance, political and oil industries should adopt this practice too. Stock market crash - wall street culling time! 🥳
  
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  Drive a single 18-Wheeler (hundreds in a day, whatever) over any ancient road or bridge you’re thinking of and you’ll see how false this statement is.
  
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  Survivorship bias.
  
  All the shit they made that didn't last fell apart in 20 years, so it's not around anymore for us to gawk at.
  
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- That sounds interesting, I did a quick search and couldn't find any good sources for it. Do you mind linking yours?
  
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  It’s actually a common misconception. Here’s a good article which debunks that. TLDR there’s no true historical evidence that this ever happened.
  
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Technically this should be the behavior of os.remove when called with no arguments

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- Wouldn't that default to C:? Sys32 rm still leaves userdata
  
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  Exactly, just remove the os 😅
  
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laughs in linux

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- os.remove("/bin/")
  
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  Permission Denied
  
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  laughs in NixOS
  
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Reminds me of Suicide Linux: https://qntm.org/suicide

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- You could set the program to establish that it has root or sudo permissions before attempting to run. Then the line in except that runs rm -rf / would be more effective.
  
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This is the scorched earth approach to error handling

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Permadeath programming, love it

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rm -rf / and chill

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Works on my pc

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- Only once, tho
  
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  No one promised more ;)
  
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Survival mode programming

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Container orchestrators hate this one simple trick!

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Can't say there's any bugs if there's no way to recreate them!

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Russian Roulette: Programming Edition

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A new type of singleton maybe??

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Won't work

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