Spyke
sh.itjust.works

Like back in the day when the Romans would have the engineer stand underneath the bridge while it was tested.

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Sounds good, the finance, political and oil industries should adopt this practice too. Stock market crash - wall street culling time! 🥳

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Drive a single 18-Wheeler (hundreds in a day, whatever) over any ancient road or bridge you’re thinking of and you’ll see how false this statement is.

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ch00freply
lemmy.world

Survivorship bias.

All the shit they made that didn't last fell apart in 20 years, so it's not around anymore for us to gawk at.

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lemm.ee

That sounds interesting, I did a quick search and couldn't find any good sources for it. Do you mind linking yours?

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It’s actually a common misconception. Here’s a good article which debunks that. TLDR there’s no true historical evidence that this ever happened.

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lemmy.ml

Technically this should be the behavior of os.remove when called with no arguments

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mveereply
lemmy.ml

Exactly, just remove the os 😅

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whoareyou is not in the sudoers list. This incident has been reported.

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Not sure if you can use it in Python directly but you got the idea

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Davereply

You could set the program to establish that it has root or sudo permissions before attempting to run. Then the line in except that runs rm -rf / would be more effective.

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