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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I once got an error that simply stated I needed to contact the admin to ask about the error.

On my own device. While logged in as root. I am the admin.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Ask yourself why you're getting an error.

contact yourself then.

[–] nous@programming.dev 73 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Still more helpful then this error I have seen before:

error: Success
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 18 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] eah@programming.dev 31 points 16 hours ago
[–] jwt@programming.dev 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Controversial and inflammatory reply.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Reply pretending to be slick but actually falling for the ragebait

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 2 points 5 hours ago

Exceptional comment replying to the wrong thread.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"I'm in this meme and I don't like it"-comment

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Reddit-bashing and call to stop mentioning it.
Contains expletives.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 8 points 14 hours ago

Stolen comment.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, you visited slrpnk.net too?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I went there on vacation with my parents once

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

Tell your mom I said hi.