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The “Thought for 2 seconds” and “Stopped thinking” are hilarious to me
At least we know vibe coders will eventually destroy themselves.
just wait until they start vibe coding on their brain implant
I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)
Same, I didn’t realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working…
Gnome used to have a link to your homedir in its settings directory.
I imagine plenty of people had tons of fun with that. But you need to modify
rmto follow symlinks nowadays.
I did it recently. Its like watching your computer commit seppuku.
Looks like ChatGPT will create more software jobs than it takes.
AI will create the most cursed entry jobs humans have yet to see.
First job in the old days doing WordPress, managing someone’s vomit inducing PHP? Gone.
Jobs with jQuery spaghetti calling dozens of asp APIs like a rat’s nest no rat can traverse? Gone.
Welcome to the future: Fixing some “business” guy’s vibe coded personal hell made just for you.
Asking AI to make my website in C.
Who’s going to fix that “business” for me? BTW, the AI says, it’s 95% done and only needs some debugging, so you’ll be paid accordingly.
deserved tbh
Stopped thinking
Never started
This is why the first thing I did when my company got us an agentic LLM was set up devcontainer.
OK I’ll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
Should be
\~in most shells, certainly bash. Usemkdirandrmdirwhen messing around to prevent accidents.Saw this post this morning and was thinking about how to delete it ( while falling back asleep ). Escaping the ~, ofc that’d work! I feel so stupid now haha
Just give rm the entire path or a relative path like ./~
prefix with path, and/or quotation
A method not yet mentioned is by inode, (I’ve accidentally created filenames I didn’t know how to escape at the time like
--or other command line flags/special characters)ls -liOnce you get the inode
find . -type f -inum $inode -deleteUsing Nautilus or Dolphin.
True if these are installed, but if I’m on a server’s command line they probably aren’t.
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I don’t understand the eagerness of most people to go nuclear by adding potentially dangerous arguments when not required.
Use
rmdirto remove a directory you expect to be empty, notrm -rfIt’s because they know how to use rm -rf, and they don’t know how to use rmdir. Honestly, I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever successfully removed a directory with rmdir. I always wind up using something else.
In these touchy cases always add ‘-i’ to have a confirmation when doing dangerous things. This will save your ass.
why
-exec rmwhen find has a -delete flag?Is that some new-fangled GNU thing? It’s certainly not POSIX.
Oh, for once the BSD version has more options than the GNU one.
rm -rf “~” may work?
No, but single quotes will.
huh, I almost removed my entire home directory
In case you are just testing it out, don’t use
-rf
Your~directory is most probably empty, so userm -dinstead, to prevent all footguns in case you put the wrong character in the end.-d, --dir remove empty directoriesI feel safe doing
rm -d /.
I feel safe doingsudo rm -d /.Because it won’t delete anything that has a file in it.
I think it should’ve started with “stopped thinking”
You can definitely do this redirecting output. I did this to myself and sighed about 2 seconds into it after realizing what I had done.
Creating a ~ folder isn’t the tricky part. Removing it is.
(until you figure it out once)
ctrl-z… ctrl-z…CTRL-Z
I mean I have to wipe out my
~relatively frequently on some machines at times but that’s for “actual” “reasons”, LLM hallucinations not involvedIs this assisted
suicide?Same energy as Republican memes
