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Thanks server, very useful (lemmy.ca)
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[–] invictvs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's how you know it was coded by a human

[–] nous@programming.dev 102 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Still more helpful then this error I have seen before:

error: Success
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"Task failed successfully" was actually uttered numerous times earlier this week at work; we were testing this robotics and automation system and trying to detect various failure modes, and this was declared every time we managed to produce a new fault. This was so that we could write procedures on what the operators should do under various circumstances.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 1 points 4 days ago

A symptom of treating all return codes as an error code.

[–] eah@programming.dev 45 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i_am_error

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I once got an error that simply stated I needed to contact the admin to ask about the error.

On my own device. While logged in as root. I am the admin.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

contact yourself then.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I tried but I was on vacation apparently.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago

Ask yourself why you're getting an error.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Check the logs then.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Comment

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Reply

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Controversial and inflammatory reply.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Reply pretending to be slick but actually falling for the ragebait

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Non Sequitur

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Meme from the 2010s.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"I'm in this meme and I don't like it"-comment

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Comparison to reddit.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Reddit-bashing and call to stop mentioning it.
Contains expletives.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago

Comment

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 3 points 5 days ago

Exceptional comment replying to the wrong thread.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 10 points 5 days ago

Stolen comment.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh, you visited slrpnk.net too?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I went there on vacation with my parents once

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Tell your mom I said hi.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

?

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 days ago

I got that message that day or the one before when visiting it.