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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I wrote a shell script like this (it admin , notna dev) for private use.
The prompt took me like 5 hours of rewriting the instructions.
Don't even know yet if it works (lol)

[–] [email protected] 223 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With clear requirements and outcome expected

Why did no one think of this before

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Who does that? What if they do everything right and it doesn't work and then it turns out it's my fault?

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who even makes these comics? Is it like Simpsons

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Web browsing 101: if you see a hyperlink on social media, you can click on it and then look around to see if it contains more links with useful information, often in the header or footer of the page. Here I found one for you: https://xkcd.com/about/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Sorry, I assumed this was a place of discussion and conversation. You can either be helpful or don't, it's generally considered a dick move to taunt while being helpful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Human communication 101: sometimes humans ask a question without expecting an answer, it's called a rhetorical question

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Randall Munroe. You may know him from such gems as xkcd 3472 and 6548.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You have be more patient, those ones will take a while to load.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Getting a bit ahead of yourself, we're only on 3070 so far!

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