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Thanks server, very useful (lemmy.ca)
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[–] invictvs@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] nous@programming.dev 122 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Still more helpful then this error I have seen before:

error: Success
[–] nightlily@leminal.space 1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] eah@programming.dev 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i_am_error

[–] jwt@programming.dev 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Comment

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reply

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Controversial and inflammatory reply.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reply pretending to be slick but actually falling for the ragebait

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

Non Sequitur

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Meme from the 2010s.

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

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

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

Comparison to reddit.

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

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

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Comment

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 week ago

Exceptional comment replying to the wrong thread.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week 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 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

contact yourself then.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I tried but I was on vacation apparently.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago

Ask yourself why you're getting an error.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Check the logs then.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Stolen comment.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, you visited slrpnk.net too?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went there on vacation with my parents once

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Tell your mom I said hi.

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

?

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 days ago

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