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arcane terminals (file.garden)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"

"grandma, i literally only typed dir."

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Have you ever seen A Touch Of Cloth? It's a superb send-up of police procedurals. There's a scene where the main character, Cloth, is explaining some not-very-complex idea like you said and one of his lackeys replies, "Can you explain it like I'm some kind of viewer, guv?".