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Thanks server, very useful (lemmy.ca)

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[–] nous@programming.dev 75 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Still more helpful then this error I have seen before:

error: Success

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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.