Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stale Code

Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by sjtgraham on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:19AM (#23523763)

Brilliant. This reminds me of the apocryphal tale where NASA spent millions developing a pen that could work in microgravity… and Russia just used a pencil.

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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by dean177 on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:17AM (#23524028)

Please stop repeating this, it’s total nonsense.

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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by smabie on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:55AM (#23524924)

That's why he said apocryphal..

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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by dean177 on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:58AM (#23526391)

Which means they are of doubtful origin. There is no doubt that this particular story is a complete fabrication

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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by jolux on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:59AM (#23526811)

Yup. Completely false. The Russians ended up using that pen too or their own version of it; the Americans started off using pencils but it turns out having electrically conductive graphite shavings floating around is bad for electronic equipment.

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