Alright, I’ve read both of you guys’ arguments. You’re both right, but you’re both talking about different things.
Successful try is responding with a literal direct computer-like response for OP’s question. They are adding no additional qualifiers to the specific exact question that was asked, which is to say that the answer to OP’s question is, it does nothing.
Reman, you were saying that anybody who was trying to use this command would obviously add a subject, would put the test or something else to it, would make an adjustment to the command in order to make it work and actually function.
And that is correct in practice, but that doesn’t answer the question that was being asked literally. It answers the question the way a senior programmer would answer the question of a junior programmer.
Successful try’s answer is the answer a computer would give.
So can you both please stop fucking arguing, hug it out, and move on?
Successful try’s answer is the answer a computer would give.
I enjoy giving overly pedantic and technically correct answers as much as the next guy, but doing it on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world seems like a dick move.
Generally a good idea to leave out the “-f” (so it would just be rm -r something). That way you’ll get feedback when you’re about to do something wrong or stupid!
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Alright, I’ve read both of you guys’ arguments. You’re both right, but you’re both talking about different things.
Successful try is responding with a literal direct computer-like response for OP’s question. They are adding no additional qualifiers to the specific exact question that was asked, which is to say that the answer to OP’s question is, it does nothing.
Reman, you were saying that anybody who was trying to use this command would obviously add a subject, would put the test or something else to it, would make an adjustment to the command in order to make it work and actually function.
And that is correct in practice, but that doesn’t answer the question that was being asked literally. It answers the question the way a senior programmer would answer the question of a junior programmer.
Successful try’s answer is the answer a computer would give.
So can you both please stop fucking arguing, hug it out, and move on?
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
I enjoy giving overly pedantic and technically correct answers as much as the next guy, but doing it on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world seems like a dick move.
andrewta@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Watching this back and forth while I’m eating my chips 😅
codewizard@hear-me.social 2 months ago
@remon @bizarroland thanks a lot for enlightening me, and also showing me how exactly to use that particular command without breaking anything.
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
Generally a good idea to leave out the “-f” (so it would just be rm -r something). That way you’ll get feedback when you’re about to do something wrong or stupid!