Exactly zero risk
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Especially for her, seeing that we know she doesn't use Windows.
She uses an arcane mix of Linux From Scratch and OpenBSD
Canonically she uses Copland OS, which is named after an abandoned Mac OS 8 prototype but is functionally completely different. Given that Copland OS is built to access what works like a crossbreed between the internet and and the Zone from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, I think it's reassuring that we don't have it in our world.
Copland was supposed to take over the world at the time the anime was made, so that makes sense. Didn't quite turn it that way, of course, which is probably for the better.
Back in the good old days I used to play kmem-roulette: Write a random value into a random address of /proc/kmem until the system crashed. That was much more fun, as on the way there was also the possibility that the kernel might just start wreaking havoc in some random files. No wonder they removed the kmem file in the end.
Let me guess, you're not using Windows?
~~0.4889 / 7 chance of failure, naively accounting for Windows' market share and assuming the user is sufficiently privileged~~ (according to LostXOR's comment, I stand corrected)
Are you sure? From what I can tell there's a 5 in 6 chance of catastrophic failure.
First of all, 1 in n. Second, 0...6 has amount 7 (len(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) == 7), so therefore 1/7.
Also, 
Fair, I was trying to be cheeky and here you are shutting me up with a compiler level "nope". Take your +1.
Make it a bit more fun.
1 in 6 chance to trigger the logic.
The logic?
- Get list of all files ending in .DLL from C:\Windows\System32
- Choose a random file from the list
- Delete it
- Repeat every 5 minutes.
The slow deterioration, and random issues appearing that are tough to diagnose would be more fun than such wanton destruction.
The equivalent of losing (part of) a finger on each success/failure, instead of totally evacuating the contents of your skull.
The chance is actually 1 in 7 because both 0 and 6 are included in the randInt() range.
Oh right. I thought it might work the same as range etc in python, where is does one less than you specify.. Coming from, well every other language this really threw me off on my first python excursion.
You can get the exclusive behaviour with random.randrange. (Relevant Stack Overflow question with a somewhat interesting answer)
Any language... except MATLAB. Fuck MATLAB.
(Their arrays even start at 1, what the fuck?!)
IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: 'C:\Windows\System32'
At least use shutil.rmtree for some semblance of possibility.
Also, the backslashes need to be escaped I believe
Or just use forward slashes like someone sane!
You're right, I forgot Python makes them work on Windows too
Can you even run Windows on a RPi?
Not really. Microsoft compiled a version of their OS for ARM devices - creatively named "Windows on ARM", but on a Raspberry Pi I'd hardly describe the performance as "running" - walking/crawling would be more apt.
If DOSBox runs on one, then the old DOS-based Windows versions might work. But then, they didn't keep much in System32, where they even had it at all.
They've made Windows IoT Core that runs on Raspberry Pi. I have a colleague that maintains a tanning bed system that uses two Pis running that for each bed, one to operate the bed itself and one to accept payments.
It's mad
So they can make a lightweight Windows, they just normally choose not to?
if [[ $(shuf -i 1-6 -n 1) -eq 1 ]]; then
sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
fi
I tried it and it asks for my password. Should I enter it?
for anyone who doesnt know the game is Buckshot Roulette, which is like Russian Roulette but with a shotgun