It is. Your brakes can’t do much when your tires have zero traction

Walmart had a vending machine that would give you Dr Thunder for a quarter and I thought that was amazing

I think the person you are replying to agrees with you

He did learn a hard lesson, but it sounds like this was exactly what he was attempting to rectify. “This project is pretty important to me. I should probably figure out how to use source control and put it on GitHub” but then by doing so, and due to some arguably poor UX decisions in VSC, destroyed the project.

If someone’s trying to learn how to do something you can’t just be like “well you should’ve already known how”, you know what I mean?

Well actually, let’s qualify that: there are cases where people try to jump right in the deep end. “I’m just learning woodworking! Step 1: build a new deck for my house”, like yeah bro what are you doing, let’s start with a birdfeeder or something.

But that’s not what happened here. He tried to use the built-in GUI, which many would assume would be easier to learn than jumping right to the CLI, and it burned him in a way he didn’t even realize was possible.

I mean, not entirely, and he says he lost months worth of work. Like imagine you know nothing of git:

• Click buttons in the IDE to add source control.

• IDE says a bunch of files have been changed.

• But I don’t want to make changes to the files, I want to source control them.

• Attempt to undo the changes. Click “discard changes” thinking it will put them back to how they were before clicking add source control. Get a warning dialog that this is not undoable, but that’s fine because I don’t want whatever changes it made to my files anyway.

• All files are deleted and unrecoverable.

Like that experience sucks balls and it’s reasonable that a person wouldn’t expect “discard” == “delete”. Also, from reading the GitHub thread, apparently at that time VSCode was doing a git clean when you clicked this. Which like…yeah why the hell would it do that lol? I don’t think I have ever used git clean in my entire career.

It seems like he was trying to learn though? He clicked it, like “hell yes I want source control, let’s figure this out”

“It says all my files are changed? Oh shit why did it change my files? Shit fuck, undo, how do I undo…Do I want to discard the changes? I don’t even know what it changed. Yes please undo whatever changes you did to my files”

And poof.

And YouTube. And Facebook. And Reels.

Ok. Which is yours? What’s your pitch?

Where along the DNC’s journey to the right do you hop off? Is it never? When do you hop off the electoral trend and join the Revolutionary trend?

And what is this revolutionary trend doing? Is there a plan? Because “let’s get Trump elected and hope for the best” really isn’t a great pitch

…budgeting? Y’all don’t just buy the meatiest beefcake PSU that microcenter has in stock?

Do you have a link to the full script? I can’t seem to find it

$3.50 for a McDouble, the item they used to replace the double cheeseburger on the dollar menu…

pipenv venv virtualenv pyenv poetry

Spin the wheel

ffmpeg is now a dependency of gcc

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