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Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by akavel on Thursday May 05, 2022 @02:57PM (#31277178)
I heard of this technique, but unfortunately I don't see how it can be easily applied in software engineering/devops.

Also, I now realized that aviation checklists seem to tend to be done similarly with gestures - at least from what I saw on YouTube, not sure if that's representative or only used during education (?)

Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by samus on Thursday May 05, 2022 @05:27PM (#31278605)
Spelling out loudly the command you are about to execute and explaining the reasoning behind it can help a lot too.
Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod... by akavel on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:58AM (#31285948)
Ok, but am I to do it on every single command I do on my terminal? Or on which ones specifically? If the problem we're trying to solve is that I can sometimes overlook the "dangerous commands" among "safe ones", by definition of overlooking it won't work if I tell myself to "spell out the command only in case of the dangerous ones", no?

I'm honestly trying to think of the way how I could approach this for myself, just I don't see a clear solution yet that wouldn't require me to spell out everything I type in my terminal window.