lasagnaman comments on Learned Blankness - Less Wrong

130 Post author: AnnaSalamon 18 April 2011 06:55PM

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Comment author: lasagnaman 19 April 2011 07:25:16PM 6 points [-]

sudo rm -rf /

Comment author: Cyan 19 April 2011 08:14:08PM 4 points [-]

I get a creepy feeling just looking at that.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 31 December 2011 07:27:34AM 2 points [-]

No kidding. It's like saying 'Zeeky Boogy Doog' out loud.

Comment author: Cayenne 19 April 2011 08:23:23PM *  3 points [-]

I did that once! Without the sudo, so it was even worse because I was logged in as root. Oops? Now every time I do anything as root I triple-check it. Destroying my system wasn't really fun, but it taught me a really valuable lesson.

Edit - please disregard this post

Comment author: zntneo 07 May 2011 09:16:53AM 0 points [-]

I had a boss who did that to an entire lab of computers just after a coworker finished reimaging them.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 20 April 2011 08:20:00AM *  6 points [-]

sudo rm -rf / &

It's no fun if you can just C-c to stop it.