At least C++ build tools are easier than modern JS.

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.

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.

That kid is superior

Two-chubby-chubby

Senior developer here, it looks like they are helping to me.

Somehow Trump returned… 🫠

Careful, the 100,000 kg of pizza will turn into manure.

I once thought of a movie while coughing into a microphone. I opened the recorded cough with VLC and it played the movie.

Yep, drama always comes. The question is, do you want to have any power and rights when the drama comes?

He stopped making videos 3 years ago and said open source progress in gamedev has restored his enthusiasm. So he might be willing to share his videos on principle.

Am… Am I pasta?

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.)

How about: regulate the 10 largest companies and we can save the Earth?

In times past they got shit done, and now we see that what they’ve done is shit and we’re stuck maintaining it.

Are you sure, I thought if a single molecule of soap touches my pan it would instantly look like this?

Giving bombs to Israel without condition is a… 6 point story I think

Our bug is their status quo.

Cognitive dissonance.

For a lot of people, either they accept “this trillion dollar corporation that controls all my computers, and the programming languages I use, and my code editor, is evil”. Or they accept “this trillion dollar company does lots of good things for me and is good”.

One is easier to accept than the other.