Sudo npm install5/27/2023 ![]() The command is dangerous and you should absolutely not run it on your local computer yet, that's what nearly every software developer is risking multiple times a day when they consume a random repository from GitHub on their local computer. ![]() Unfortunately, not much has changed in the last 25 years. Poof, days of work down the drain and one important lesson was learned: Don't trust instructions from random people on the internet The interaction went down something like this: me: hey, how can I do $x?īeing 14 and completely oblivious, I ran the command as root. complete unawareness of pre 1993 internet etiquette) I launched right into asking my first question without saying hello. Īs a member of the generation that is the Eternal September (ie. I had spent hours learning how to install Slackware onto my fathers Cyrix 6x86 computer and days learning how to configure the PPP daemon to connect the computer up to IBM dot NET via an US Robotics 56K V.92 modem when life served me a lesson.Īt the bottom of the installation guide I was following there were recommendations to join an internet relay chat room for newbies on EFNet (ahoy!) so I did exactly that.
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