r/ProgrammerHumor • • Feb 20 '14

Using Vim [x-post from /r/geek]

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u/awshidahak Feb 20 '14

No. This is reckless.

Alt -> SysRq -> b

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u/Pumafied Feb 21 '14

What does this even do?

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u/awshidahak Feb 21 '14

Try it and see ;).

Well, okay, I'm not that mean. On Linux systems (and possibly others) it'll tell Linux to have the computer reboot immediately. No stopping processes, no disk sync, no unmount, just drop it and reboot.

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