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He did have to type "httpie/httpie" in the box to confirm, no? I'm rather surprised that that didn't snap him out of auto-pilot mode. There ought to have been a
by sriku 5y ago
He did have to type "httpie/httpie" in the box to confirm, no? I'm rather surprised that that didn't snap him out of auto-pilot mode. There ought to have been a DING in the brain seeing that the repo this is being applied to was httpie/httpie?
OTOH, I haven't been in such a mode, so I really got no right to comment on this. Best wishes to the team -- that those who saw his post will restar/rewatch the repo -- and (fwiw) thanks for writing it up and making me even more paranoid (in a positive sense) about doing such destructive operations.
- ignoramous 5y agoAll the talk about auto-pilot mode reminds me of this excellent talk on activation energy, waking up yourself from slumber, or flip-flopping between auto-pilot and emergency modes: Mel Robbins, How to stop screwing yourself over, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Lp7E973zozc https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Lp7E973zozc
- decafb 5y agoBy now I've become so accustomed to just copy the bold text from the line above it and paste, that it doesn't break me out anymore. I know I should concentrate and type it out, but in my head it has just become visual noise and a boring exercise.
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- sriku 5y agoAha .. perhaps the interface can be changed to prevent copy-paste into that field.
- account42 5y agoBetter would be to not show the repo name directly above the dialog at all so the user actually has to think a bit about what they need to enter. Just re-typing a text shown to you can be done on autopilot as well.