> Have you ever left your terminal logged in, only to find when you came back to it that a (supposed) friend had typed "rm -rf ~/*" and was hovering over the keyboard with threats along the lines of "lend me a fiver 'til Thursday, or I hit return"?
Wow that is really nasty, the most we did was put confusing backgrounds in, or cronjob a say "xxx is yyy" and have a laugh in the next meeting :)
Yes. Or one lowtech method I use often is `touch ~/-i`. When someone tries to rm -rf * the file called “-i” gets globbed at the front of the arguments and the subsequent command goes into “interactive “ mode meaning it prompts y/n for each file
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For redundant, how about -
Redundant, a.: Redundant
I.e., just "instantiate", don't do a "jmp" and all that kind of stuff, right? :)
https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
"I'm a big fan of small utilities."
- That's a quote I made up in imitation of Yogi Berra's quotes, which I'm a fan of.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
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