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.
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.
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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Hupf@feddit.de · 88 pts · 3y
print "hello world";or else;Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 61 pts · 3y
Like back in the day when the Romans would have the engineer stand underneath the bridge while it was tested.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
tehcpengsiudai@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
Sounds good, the finance, political and oil industries should adopt this practice too. Stock market crash - wall street culling time! 🥳
sudo22@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
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.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
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.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 3y
That sounds interesting, I did a quick search and couldn't find any good sources for it. Do you mind linking yours?
dukk@programming.dev · 9 pts · 3y
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.
mvee@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 3y
Technically this should be the behavior of os.remove when called with no arguments
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 3y
Wouldn't that default to C:? Sys32 rm still leaves userdata
mvee@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Exactly, just remove the os 😅
treesoid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
os.del_universe()
For quantom bogo sort
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 3y
laughs in linux
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 3y
os.remove("/bin/")vettnerk@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 3y
Permission Denied
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 3y
Real men execute everything as root
flashgnash@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y
You guys have normal user accounts?
kionite231@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y
sudo python3 boom.pyvettnerk@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
whoareyou is not in the sudoers list. This incident has been reported.
vkirlin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
~
Not sure if you can use it in Python directly but you got the idea
Ultra980@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
laughs in NixOS
Knusper@feddit.de · 17 pts · 3y
Reminds me of Suicide Linux: https://qntm.org/suicide
bhez@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
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.clutchmatic@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
This is the scorched earth approach to error handling
james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk · 15 pts · 3y
Permadeath programming, love it
Morphit@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 3y
speaker_hat@lemmy.one · 10 pts · 3y
rm -rf /and chillLuckyCharmsNSoyMilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 3y
Survival mode programming
tracyspcy@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 3y
Works on my pc
clutchmatic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Only once, tho
tracyspcy@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
No one promised more ;)
ProcurementCat@feddit.de · 9 pts · 3y
mvirts@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Container orchestrators hate this one simple trick!
JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Russian Roulette: Programming Edition
AstralWeekends@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y
Can't say there's any bugs if there's no way to recreate them!
pythonoob@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y
A new type of singleton maybe??
thepiguy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y