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Comment by PaulHoule

6 months ago

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

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ianmcgowan  5 months ago

Yes! I do this when doing anything destructive ("rm -rf dir", "drop db", etc.) - i just stop and say out loud what environment I'm in, what the command I'm running is going to do and why I am doing it. This is in a remote-work situation, in an office I would have someone come double check the really destructive things before hitting enter..

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