this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
360 points (96.6% liked)

Programmer Humor

32721 readers
358 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 101 points 10 months ago (2 children)

10 minutes? That's it. That's easily a 3 hour time sink.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

Well, in this case, it was a graphical program that was doing it, and I really could've recognized that the file was being created by that. I had just kind of forgotten that I opened this graphical program a few days ago on a different workspace...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

OP is clearly boasting about how smart they are.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only 10 minutes? Those are rookie numbers

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

Or pro numbers, depending on how you look at it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm curious you'd see it in ls -l Did inode change? I remember making the same mistake. I think everyone sees this sometime during the career

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The inode does change, yeah:

The regular ls -l doesn't show the inode on my system, though. I only realized it when I had assigned more permissions to the file and those got reset by deleting the file. The last-modified timestamp also gets updated each time, but I only spotted that afterwards...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Give me your dotfiles or I will sneak into your home and tie all the sleeves of your shirts into knots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If you ask because of the powerline shell prompt, I'm using Starship with the Gruvbox Rainbow preset: https://starship.rs/presets/#gruvbox-rainbow

You do need a NerdFont for this, as gets mentioned in the Starship installation guide. I'm specifically using the NerdFont variant of Fira Mono here, but you don't have to use that for this setup.

(I made some light customizations to the preset. If you specifically want those, you can have them, too, but I only set this up two days ago, so I don't know yet how well it works.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a pretty terminal! Mind telling how you did it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] Still 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

lsof is a good tool would recommend it whenever something weird is happen, tho you gotta be root for it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Another is checking modified time of the directory

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Kinda similar. I remember having a file I could t delete. But I could move it to a new folder and delete that folder and the file would delete.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It's usually 10 mins to debug, and 3 hours explaining, categorizing, identifying the scope of it exists everywhere else...