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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Container orchestrators hate this one simple trick!
Can’t say there’s any bugs if there’s no way to recreate them!
A new type of singleton maybe??
Reminds me of Suicide Linux: https://qntm.org/suicide
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.laughs in linux
os.remove("/bin/")laughs in NixOS
Permission Denied
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Not sure if you can use it in Python directly but you got the idea
Real men execute everything as root
You guys have normal user accounts?
sudo python3 boom.pywhoareyou is not in the sudoers list. This incident has been reported.
This is the scorched earth approach to error handling
Survival mode programming
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Thanks for posting this, it sent me into a several minutes long focus on exceptions in python and how to handle them. I learned something valuable!
print "hello world";or else;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! 🥳
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.
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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That sounds interesting, I did a quick search and couldn’t find any good sources for it. Do you mind linking yours?
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.
Permadeath programming, love it
Works on my pc
Only once, tho
No one promised more ;)
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