On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 07:35:03PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 01:00:00PM -0400, John Newman wrote: > [...] > > > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > > > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > > > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > > > > Whoa! Pretty harsh treatment from the master there, at least he > > included the "-i" flag, maybe say no to a few files... although, I > > think the "-f" is gonna take precedence. In any case, I'd find a > > new teacher fucking ASAP... Maybe just buy a book, tell the master > > to get fucked ;) > > Maybe masters sometimes do the right thing, and if they seem not to, > this might still be for the pupil's good? > > Perhaps it depends on master and his/her objectives. Does the master > care about pleasing the master or does the master care about following > the path? Is the path important enough to destroy work of poor > student? Should the poor student make proper backups? Can Buddha's > nature be restored from a backup? Can it be stored there first? Which > one tape has more Buddha on it, the one with backup of formatted drive > or the one that have been laid over degausser for a year?
Haha :) I keep 15m snapshots on my ZFS volumes, so I guess I wouldn't lose a whole lot of buddha.. but damn, I'd be irritated :P John
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