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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Back when I was still on Reddit, I made a comment on a chess sub saying that in chess you are not allowed to make your king "commit suicide" to explain how a stalemate works. One day later I got a message about suicide prevention because someone flagged me for promoting suicide.

What a dumb site.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean in all fairness it was probably a bot that flagged that.

By the time I left (API shenengigans) Reddit was already a place where bots interacted with bots half the time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

One of my favorite moments on reddit was spotting a bot that spouted unrelated nonsense. I checked the comment history and found users responding earnestly to the nonsense. While it was hilarious, it was also quite sad, the state of those people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

One of the funnier ones for me was a “your words are in alphabetical order” bot replying it to the haiku-bot that replied to the human first. The alphabetical-order bot didn't reply to te the human as well; but to the haiku-bot, mind you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

What people? "It's bots all the way down, of course!"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They should have known you were just horsing around.

[–] Klear 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Google helpline numbers

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's too late for me. My coworker pull requested before I could and now I think I'm going to commit merge conflict.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Just base your stuff on their stuff and hassle everyone to merge that other PR.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not a mistake git can do that to people. Especially those who have never used git via command line.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Yeah, imagine you accidently commit over weeks of work, or hell, if it's the main branch, and you deleted the other origin branch prior to merging, it could be a lot more than a few weeks worth of work. The revert to a previous commit... shutters.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know if you're joking, but in case you're not: git reflog and git reset --hard HEAD@{n} is your friend. You can undo almost anything. Deleted commits and branches aren't really deleted. Remotely deleted branches can be pushed again.

Except for an (accidental) git restore/git reset. Those are permanent and can't be undone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even git reset can be undone by a lot of editors. At least IntelliJ has an excellent local history that works much like git. Sure it’s a pain if you touched several files but that’ll teach you to atomify your commits.

Edit: Plus, git reset itself does nothing of note really, but I’m sure you know. Needs the —hardflag to do any meaningful damage.

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

Except for an (accidental) git restore/git reset. Those are permanent and can't be undone.

Unless, you didn't close your editor before doing so, in which case, you can just save it again.

I'm not talking about IDEs.
Even Kate gives you the option to either discard the deleted document/changes or keep them and save again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its even scarier when master branch is prod

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Don't tell me ghost stories right now, it's almost my bedtime.

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

That’s when you call in a wizard.

They do git necromancy and sacrifice a goat to the reflog to recover your code

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, yes, the reflog incantation. It is said that it can be performed only by those who have rebased on an hard reset origin.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's a really long phone number. Crazy that it has 7 repeating numbers in succession.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Considering suicide? Type in these 18 numbers without mistakes while you think about it...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

That's easy to remember!

[–] fin 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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-my existence