A new way of programming

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print "hello world";

or else;
Like back in the day when the Romans would have the engineer stand underneath the bridge while it was tested.
- That sounds interesting, I did a quick search and couldn't find any good sources for it. Do you mind linking yours?
  
  It’s actually a common misconception. Here’s a good article which debunks that. TLDR there’s no true historical evidence that this ever happened.
Technically this should be the behavior of os.remove when called with no arguments
- Wouldn't that default to C:? Sys32 rm still leaves userdata
  
  Exactly, just remove the os 😅
laughs in linux
- os.remove("/bin/")
  
  Permission Denied
  
  laughs in NixOS
Reminds me of Suicide Linux: https://qntm.org/suicide
- You could set the program to establish that it has root or sudo permissions before attempting to run. Then the line in except that runs rm -rf / would be more effective.
This is the scorched earth approach to error handling
Permadeath programming, love it
rm -rf / and chill
Survival mode programming
Works on my pc
- Only once, tho
  
  No one promised more ;)
Container orchestrators hate this one simple trick!
Can't say there's any bugs if there's no way to recreate them!
Russian Roulette: Programming Edition
A new type of singleton maybe??

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