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 @:nwz: HAGWAFFEN âš¡âš¡  :nwz: @Protoss @d I was just trying it to get some info on how to complete a task related to windows file system and it got things very very wrong. Like "possibly fuck up your system if you copy paste it" wrong :abyss: 

Verify the output kids 
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 @Fe₂🦀₃⋅H₂🦀 ( 7,600 / 28,000 ) @:nwz: HAGWAFFEN ⚡⚡  :nwz: @d @Protoss reminds me of that install script that was supposed to remove some folder in /usr/ but had a space in the path and removed the whole /usr directory instead:abyss: 
 @:nigga:  @:nwz: HAGWAFFEN âš¡âš¡  :nwz: @d @Protoss this is very frustrating. I am asking a very simple question, to which the answer appears to be "no" and instead of saying no it's making shit up to appease me. 
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 @Fe₂🦀₃⋅H₂🦀 ( 7,600 / 28,000 ) @:nwz: HAGWAFFEN ⚡⚡  :nwz: @d @Protoss hey dont be mean to him hes trying tot make you happy :blobcatsadreach: 
 @:nigga:  @:nwz: HAGWAFFEN âš¡âš¡  :nwz: @d @Protoss I switched to talking about a different problem and it actually just gave me some pretty good advice... 

It's hard to describe because its not exactly spitting our genius solutions but more very clearly enumerating the problem space I'm working in and breaking things down into clear subproblems to solve. Even if these are things I already knew it's nice to have "conformation" clearly listed out in bullet points