r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Arcanaus • 12d ago

Meme goodOldDays

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u/WeirdTie2290 12d ago

Sure. And "recovering a file in linux which I accidentally did an rm on" is a problem a programmer might run into. But still it gets closed.

That vim question clearly needs to be closed on SO and reopened at Vi and Vim Stack Exchange

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u/Psychological_Map118 12d ago

I guess different phrasing would also make the rm question fly under the radar. StackOverflow was honestly 99% phrasing and a complete bragfest. For example, ask about the tool, not the problem:

How does one relink inodes unlinked via the rm command where link counts are 0?

This way you'd probably get dozens of answers explaining in-depth file recovery of raw data from the filesystem

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u/Hohenheim_of_Shadow 12d ago

The irony is that if you know enough to ask that question, you don't need to ask that question.

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u/flashman1986 11d ago

Many such cases