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Would you still think it is art, if you would have been the one to stay up late at night, fixing some mysterious bug, that turned out to be a joke?
by lukan 2y ago
Would you still think it is art, if you would have been the one to stay up late at night, fixing some mysterious bug, that turned out to be a joke?
- eptcyka 2y agoWhat specifically can this particular easter egg do to keep people up at night? If this easter egg breaks anything, I feel like the underlying issue is not the easter egg itself.
- lukan 2y agoThe top comment seems like a real story here, about what can happen, if you expect a time, but don't get a time. The last thing you usually suspect, is that the system call is wrong. So you spend a lot of time investigating everything else. I like a good prank - they usually work by the prankster being around and ready to step in, if the joke goes too far. Not what happens, if you deploy the prank worldwide. There are worse things for sure, but still this is not something I can applaud. I wasted too much time on other useless shit. so I would likely not be amused having my time wasted some more by someone thinking he is funny.
- dijit 2y agoyes, I would have had a chuckle. And truthfully, a consistent repeatable bug, in software intended for human consumption (man in shell scripts would be at least a little weird, like vim in shell scripts) is not so bad really. And midnight isnt so late, I have a heritage of systems administration, all kinds of things happen at 3-4am; its a good feeling to debug and prevent them.
- lukan 2y agoI like working up late at night as well, but if the kids wake me up in the morning anyway, I don't want the night work to have been useless and avoidable.
- mistercheph 2y agoYes, I’d probably laugh too. A person who becomes miserable because of a joke that unintentionally misdirects their task for the day, has mostly miserable days, and resents the world for every ounce of joy contained in it; and spills the bile in their heart back out as revenge for their daily suffering.
- lukan 2y agoYes, there are people who have mostly miserable days. Do you think, they deserve even more misery, by wasting them even one further day, that could have become a joy otherwise? How could they find joy with such a joke?
- mistercheph 2y agoCan't help them, why worry about trying to make people who have chosen unhappiness happy? Leave them behind