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When I was little we used to take a shallow stainless steel vessel and fill it with water and put it outside and we can easily see reflection of sun and eclipse.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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I was amazed to see (via TV coverage) so many idiots taking flash photos of the eclipse!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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A total eclipse of the heart
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Obligatory video (SFW)[^]
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I like the Seinfeld tribute.
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I drove down to the Zone of Totality to watch and someone there decided to blast that song twice in an hour. Fortunately they were polite enough to not do so during the actual event.
Also, is it just me or does the "Zone of Totality" sounds like some comic book super villain's domain?
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RJOberg wrote: "Zone of Totality" sounds like some comic book super villain's domain?
Yep.
When I read it, I read with the narrator's deep thunderous voice "ZONE...OF....TOTALLLLIIITY", or something like that. 
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Slacker007 wrote: I read with the narrator's deep thunderous voice "ZONE...OF....TOTALLLLIIITY", or something like that.
By any chance was it James Earl Jones or Christopher Lee? Because that's who I heard.
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My bet is he did nothing for 3 months and used this bs to cover that up.
signature upgrading ... please wait.
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Always nice to find someone to blame. My "experience" tells me for at least 90% I'm the Problem.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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The idiot. If he has 5,000 files and doesn't back them up regularly, then I have little sympathy. Hard drives fail - it's not a case of "if" but "when". Backup, and regularly. Swearing blaming others for your stupidity doesn't make you right...
Mind you, I've had that sinking feeling. That "oh gawd, no ... I didn't. Yes, I did." moment. That's why I backup! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wow. All my stuff exists in four places beside the repository. I might lose a few hours of work at most since backups are through batch files and are done two or three times per day.
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I wonder which part of "Discard" was unclear to him.
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Probably the part where it deletes the files, instead of unstaging them. Wouldn't have been clear to me at all.
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There is a warning message, but it's so easy to just click Enter and nuke them. The cancel should be the default button on that dialog, IMO.
TTFN - Kent
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Slashdot had a better article. My understanding was that he had files checked out for over 3 months, and he basically did an Undo Pending Changes.
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OK that makes it sound a lot different. Do you have a link to that article?
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I can't find the article I had originally read anymore, just the Slashdot post itself (here). If you read through some of the discussion, plenty of people are saying that's exactly what happened. Not quite sure at this point what their source is.
Regardless--if such a nasty bug actually existed, I'd have to think that by now it would've been long found and fixed. So I have to believe the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair.
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Maybe he expected a magic trick?
"Take any card!"
"Discard."
Well, magic happened.
Everything went poof and disappeared!
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I saw this a couple of days ago on What The Daily WTF, and the general consensus there is that he is a moron for his actions, but the dialog itself was very misleading.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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