The Worst Typo I Ever Made

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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo4 жыл бұрын

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  • @asilo-

    @asilo-

    4 жыл бұрын

    i am so cool

  • @brendanmccabe8373

    @brendanmccabe8373

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tom Scott 1 week ago

  • @TheElvisnator

    @TheElvisnator

    4 жыл бұрын

    Video: *_31 seconds ago_* Tom Scott: *_1 week ago_* *_Wait, that's illegal. Tom Scott is a confirmed time traveller?!?_*

  • @TheElvisnator

    @TheElvisnator

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tom Scott be like: *_The laws of time are mine_*

  • @ender4344

    @ender4344

    4 жыл бұрын

    ͔ it must have been unlisted before and now it's public

  • @DarthChief1995
    @DarthChief19953 жыл бұрын

    Calling Tom a "Content Creator" has a whole different meaning for him.

  • @strawberrydog3270

    @strawberrydog3270

    3 жыл бұрын

    content

  • @human_bing

    @human_bing

    3 жыл бұрын

    content

  • @param6727

    @param6727

    3 жыл бұрын

    Content

  • @ytho7432

    @ytho7432

    3 жыл бұрын

    *C O N T E N T*

  • @gokaytaspnar1355

    @gokaytaspnar1355

    3 жыл бұрын

    Content

  • @OsaPL1
    @OsaPL14 жыл бұрын

    There is an old saying in programming: "You either do backups already, or you gonna start doing backups"

  • @fadetounforgiven

    @fadetounforgiven

    4 жыл бұрын

    I've known that as: "there are two kinds of people, those who have lost data and those who are about to lose it".

  • @Katniss218

    @Katniss218

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@fadetounforgiven also "There are 2 types of people, those who make backups and those who are going to"

  • @SIGSEGV1337

    @SIGSEGV1337

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or you accept the mortality of data

  • @miguelstorani8643

    @miguelstorani8643

    4 жыл бұрын

    "There is only 10 types of DB admins, those who already make backups, and those who will make backups"

  • @Lovicide

    @Lovicide

    4 жыл бұрын

    That saying should NOT be used in regards to only programming. It will save you a lot of regret later backing up videos and images and important documents to the cloud, because once that hard drive dies, it's dead and has taken that storage into the ground with it.

  • @Volumixen
    @Volumixen2 жыл бұрын

    So there was one of these in a D&D rulebook. They had used Find/Replace the word "mage" with the word "wizard". This made funny instances, like damage being changed to "dawizard"

  • @rogervanbommel1086

    @rogervanbommel1086

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s a awizarding example of ducking autocorrect

  • @alnoso

    @alnoso

    2 жыл бұрын

    must've created some nice mental iwizards

  • @residentracist3210

    @residentracist3210

    2 жыл бұрын

    Teferi moment

  • @Anonymous-df8it

    @Anonymous-df8it

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would have done " mage ". Notice the spaces on each side of the word? 🤦

  • @rogervanbommel1086

    @rogervanbommel1086

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Anonymous-df8it nah, use a REGEX

  • @lukaphoenix1568
    @lukaphoenix15682 жыл бұрын

    the amount of second hand stress I got watching this video is wild. I'm impressed you're actually able to tell this story to literal millions of people

  • @Eyes0penNoFear

    @Eyes0penNoFear

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same! Gotta wait a bit for my blood pressure to settle back down a bit.

  • @kurtsnyder4752

    @kurtsnyder4752

    Жыл бұрын

    Had to like this, exorcise that Satanic 666.

  • @rbland

    @rbland

    Жыл бұрын

    I came here to say this exact thing. Very stressful to watch! I remember modifying a person's HDD partition and loosing everything. Luckily I was able to recover the lost partition after hours of research

  • @marelizekeyter6824

    @marelizekeyter6824

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely!! Pulse still didn't return to normal even 3 minutes after watching!

  • @Twisted_Code

    @Twisted_Code

    Жыл бұрын

    living vicariously through someone else's suffering

  • @jackie2877
    @jackie28774 жыл бұрын

    gotta say 5000 articles containing only the word “content” just sounds like a high-effort shitpost

  • @loscheninmotion9920

    @loscheninmotion9920

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @ColinTheShark

    @ColinTheShark

    4 жыл бұрын

    low-effort* Only needed a typo :D

  • @SheldonCooperTrooper

    @SheldonCooperTrooper

    4 жыл бұрын

    content

  • @shakeheap3231

    @shakeheap3231

    4 жыл бұрын

    content

  • @reirizqi184

    @reirizqi184

    4 жыл бұрын

    content

  • @nofu5658
    @nofu56583 жыл бұрын

    "I replaced all 5000 files with content" "What's the problem then?" "With 'Content' " "Oh."

  • @Rx7man

    @Rx7man

    3 жыл бұрын

    I replaced them all with 'content' instead of `content`

  • @anonym3

    @anonym3

    3 жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @rileyl2046

    @rileyl2046

    3 жыл бұрын

    second

  • @stasyandr563

    @stasyandr563

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Pk Shaz that's literally what it means :D "oh no second"

  • @heyyou9472

    @heyyou9472

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stasyandr563 ha, nice one

  • @rodedogad
    @rodedogad2 жыл бұрын

    Every young engineer needs a "oh ____, I'm going to dry heave into this garbage can for a minute, then never make this mistake again" moment. I'll never forget mine.

  • @tacticalAneurysm

    @tacticalAneurysm

    Жыл бұрын

    what was yours?

  • @alexeyeliseev6322

    @alexeyeliseev6322

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@tacticalAneurysmguess we'll never know...

  • @user-li5lx3vi8o

    @user-li5lx3vi8o

    8 ай бұрын

    @@alexeyeliseev6322 tough

  • @webwolfy7310
    @webwolfy73102 жыл бұрын

    I just had the worst onosecond of my life, it involved a panicked client on the phone and a lot of potential loss of data, but everything ultimately turned out fine because this video made me decide to make a backup before I got to work. (I'm not being dramatic, remembering this video is genuinely what made me reconsider and make a backup anyway). It was a ordinary system update that had no right to brick the whole system, but thanks to you Tom it only really cost us 30 minutes of downtime.

  • @Twisted_Code

    @Twisted_Code

    Жыл бұрын

    friends don't let friends forget to do a backup.

  • @janstransky442
    @janstransky4424 жыл бұрын

    There are two types of people: those who backup, and those have not lost data yet.

  • @abhishekanil99

    @abhishekanil99

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can confirm... Source: Lost my data once and now have multiple versions of files I need

  • @gemstonegynoid7475

    @gemstonegynoid7475

    4 жыл бұрын

    I used to have tons of gigabytes of downloads in my pc/downloads folder. There was some useless file right on this upper folder, and it came with an uninstaller. I activated the uninstaller to delete this old software. The uninstaller proceeded to delete every single file in pc/downloads. Instead of specifically deleting it's related files, it deleted everything in the directory. I was unable to restore anything except some thumbnails of images. Nowadays, I constantly always download stuff into new folders, never in a root directory. So if anything needs to be deleted I just delete the folder, not use any uninstaller.

  • @TrigramThunder

    @TrigramThunder

    4 жыл бұрын

    or, you know, people who just don't have any valuable files that they'd care got deleted. my storage systems are always near empty from all the constant OS reinstalling which absolutely gets me used to not relying on any important information being stored there. so a storage failure is to me about as inconvenient as a fly on your screen might be to you. perks of digital minimalism.

  • @kannietanders2653

    @kannietanders2653

    4 жыл бұрын

    I always think about back up but never do and never lost my data yet hopefully never

  • @muchimuchi1222

    @muchimuchi1222

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm the second.

  • @FoxDaOG
    @FoxDaOG4 жыл бұрын

    I literally thought “onosecond” was the worst typo lmao

  • @aikslf

    @aikslf

    4 жыл бұрын

    same lmao

  • @koxukoshu

    @koxukoshu

    4 жыл бұрын

    same here

  • @nazibabdullah5845

    @nazibabdullah5845

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @D3rMesaa

    @D3rMesaa

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yess

  • @FoxDaOG

    @FoxDaOG

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shahmir Hassan my my, how can I resist ya?

  • @jonathansmithCrabAuthor
    @jonathansmithCrabAuthor2 жыл бұрын

    Considering the specific typo that caused the whole mess, you could say it was an… _apostrophe catastrophe._

  • @maximilianmustermann1278

    @maximilianmustermann1278

    Жыл бұрын

    Badumm ts

  • @FewVidsJustComments

    @FewVidsJustComments

    Жыл бұрын

    Capastrophe

  • @adiaphoros6842

    @adiaphoros6842

    11 ай бұрын

    Catapostrophe

  • @pixel_chip0

    @pixel_chip0

    5 ай бұрын

    content

  • @grandmabiscuits
    @grandmabiscuits2 жыл бұрын

    this just reminds me of the one time that one of the entire toy story movies was deleted accidentally by pixar but it was ultimately okay because one of the artists had made a copy of the ENTIRE THING and brought it home to work on it (which was Very Not Allowed, but it ended up saving their ass) and they were able to resume work with that.

  • @zombieslayer1468

    @zombieslayer1468

    2 жыл бұрын

    is it now allowed?

  • @star2705

    @star2705

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zombieslayer1468 Almost certainly not. The NDAs they have their animators sign are WILD. That's like, fireable offence x10.

  • @bentabac531

    @bentabac531

    Жыл бұрын

    The artist in question was taking care of her newborn child, so it made perfect sense for her to work from home

  • @Twisted_Code

    @Twisted_Code

    Жыл бұрын

    funny enough, I was just returning to this video, which I had seen previously, because I remembered it when watching a video about Pixar almost losing the entirety of Toy Story 2. this is the third contrived coincidence I've had today. It's been a weird day.

  • @PlatinumJug

    @PlatinumJug

    11 ай бұрын

    This person was also fired recently from Pixar for something, but idr why

  • @johnbradley2343
    @johnbradley23434 жыл бұрын

    On the other hand, a whole website where every article just says "content" is hilarious.

  • @RustOnWheels

    @RustOnWheels

    4 жыл бұрын

    This page intentionally says content

  • @Felixr2

    @Felixr2

    4 жыл бұрын

    There's a lot of content on this website

  • @Varksterable

    @Varksterable

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RustOnWheels My terminal sessions all start up with the prompt; "> This terminal window is intentionally blank." "cls" puts that text back, too. I think it's best to be clear about things like this, just in case anyone else is looking over your shoulder. "This page intentionally says content" is to my mind a lot clearer than just the single word 'content'. So the fix to past-tense-Tom's problem is quite clear to my mind...

  • @willprae2992

    @willprae2992

    4 жыл бұрын

    I heard you like content. Here's some content for your content.

  • @poppers7317

    @poppers7317

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@willprae2992 I put content into your content now you can have content while reading content.

  • @yashasvik2958
    @yashasvik29584 жыл бұрын

    I love how onosecond looks like one second has been misspelled

  • @beans9288

    @beans9288

    4 жыл бұрын

    i thought that too, when it came up on screen i thought that was the typo

  • @EchoesOfArson

    @EchoesOfArson

    4 жыл бұрын

    MysticalMisfit Same

  • @sebastianfors4491

    @sebastianfors4491

    4 жыл бұрын

    it's the "oh no" -second

  • @hellothere2052

    @hellothere2052

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am Yashasvi and my under the breath reaction

  • @pr6800

    @pr6800

    4 жыл бұрын

    OnO wots dis?

  • @davidbarts6144
    @davidbarts61442 жыл бұрын

    Back in the floppy disk era, I would grab grad students' thesis disks and announce I was going to degauss them, thus permanently wiping all data from them. If they would panic in terror (many did), I would say that I was just joking about degaussing, but maybe you should make backups of your precious data. That was after more than one grad student had to retype their thesis because a massive floppy failure had caused it to be lost. If the data is important enough to panic over the thought of losing it, it is important enough to back up.

  • @Twisted_Code

    @Twisted_Code

    Жыл бұрын

    That is diabolical. This chaotic approach to teaching is among my favorites because emotional stress is a powerful motivator for learning. The main issue with it is fatigue, but for backups I think it's justified.

  • @davidbarts6144

    @davidbarts6144

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Twisted_Code After two grad students had to retype a thesis because they kept only a single copy on a floppy that went bad, I decided I was doing them a favor by scaring them into making backup copies.

  • @amadeokevilus4566
    @amadeokevilus45668 ай бұрын

    I saw a physical copy of "The Lord of The Flies" that had every instance of the letters "iv" replaced with "ChapterIV"

  • @BassicallyKiyash

    @BassicallyKiyash

    Ай бұрын

    omfg😭😭

  • @feepentertainment6752

    @feepentertainment6752

    Ай бұрын

    I can safely say ChapterIVe never made a mistake like that before.

  • @BeinIan
    @BeinIan3 жыл бұрын

    Once I was ending an email with "Regards," and realized how close the "t" and "g" keys are to each other.

  • @TennessineGD

    @TennessineGD

    3 жыл бұрын

    This made me laugh out loud. Thanks for sharing it

  • @dani2541

    @dani2541

    3 жыл бұрын

    Made me laugh

  • @funky_tree

    @funky_tree

    3 жыл бұрын

    Funny, did laugh

  • @vDorgengoa

    @vDorgengoa

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't get it.... I must be regarded...... ....Ragher hithly for my innocence and humor....

  • @scodal8636

    @scodal8636

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is hilarious

  • @cubedeglace
    @cubedeglace4 жыл бұрын

    I once deleted 27 TB of offsite backups because I didn't read the text next to a checkbox. We spent a week on the road going to every client to copy their backups on hard drives and another week to copy everything back to the server. Now I read everything before clicking "next" and make a conscious effort to pause and try to understand what I am doing... Those onoseconds follow you all your life, haha !

  • @BriManeely

    @BriManeely

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow... bad luck, buddy

  • @unnath1762

    @unnath1762

    4 жыл бұрын

    F

  • @cubedeglace

    @cubedeglace

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@BriManeely Unfortunately it wasn't bad luck but like Tom said : overconfidence. I should have asked my colleagues for advice :/

  • @Hxrb

    @Hxrb

    4 жыл бұрын

    Are everything okay now mate?

  • @autohmae

    @autohmae

    4 жыл бұрын

    Luckily it was just offsite backup so no data was lost people needed ?

  • @Tomsonic41
    @Tomsonic412 жыл бұрын

    My worst one was when I was working on a server, and decided to use the console to get rid of all the GIF files in a directory. I wanted to type "rm *.gif" but I didn't let go of the shift in time, and the command became "rm *>gif". That means 'delete everything in the directory and log output to a file called gif'...

  • @SRHMusic012

    @SRHMusic012

    3 ай бұрын

    The splat (*) is dangerous with root privilege. There are some nasty surprises when logged in as root in some systems, too. I don't recall on exactly which one, but the current directory dot (.) can be crawled upward in a recursive command, as the parent directory dot-dot (..) is matched by ./.*. Weird behavior, but very bad in some cases, e.g. removing or modifying dot files: rm -r ./.*

  • @abbyh5158
    @abbyh5158 Жыл бұрын

    It's funny to me that you never point out that the backticks weren't even necessary. You were showing off by being extra safe and that enabled your mistake.

  • @zhuofanzhang9974
    @zhuofanzhang99744 жыл бұрын

    Alternate title: How I once became the most efficient content-producer.

  • @negirno

    @negirno

    4 жыл бұрын

    Literally!

  • @doctorinthezone3494

    @doctorinthezone3494

    4 жыл бұрын

    HAHAHAHA

  • @sergey1519

    @sergey1519

    4 жыл бұрын

    'content' producer

  • @amphioxusanniversary

    @amphioxusanniversary

    4 жыл бұрын

    Took me a moment XD

  • @JJ-rm7jw

    @JJ-rm7jw

    4 жыл бұрын

    I read this before I watched the video and didn't get it until I watched it... Well done. 🤣

  • @penguin_meat
    @penguin_meat4 жыл бұрын

    "The sort of lesson you only learn once" Tom, you underestimate my negligence.

  • @MatthewMilton

    @MatthewMilton

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tom should I quit youtube my friends keep making fun of me for it

  • @hiccups6531

    @hiccups6531

    4 жыл бұрын

    tom, you underestimated my ignorance

  • @speedstyle.

    @speedstyle.

    4 жыл бұрын

    yep, i've had this exact feeling maybe three times in the last six months.

  • @hallehuckleberry

    @hallehuckleberry

    4 жыл бұрын

    i think you’re overconfident in your negligence. a very dangerous combination for typos...

  • @FlyingDominion

    @FlyingDominion

    4 жыл бұрын

    Then you haven't actually learned it.

  • @JoshLeRose
    @JoshLeRose2 жыл бұрын

    Worst moment I had wasn't actually a typo, but still fits the theme of "always have a backup". I was working on a huge arrangement of various songs from a popular television show at the time. It was going to be a gift to a friend that he's (hopefully) have his HS's band play at some point. Well, after working for at least 4 hours straight adding all kinds of notes, edits, and other things, I was about halfway done with the whole thing (I had worked on it for about 6 months before this). Well, I was working on all of this on my laptop in 2014, and my laptop was from a few years earlier (2010 I think): earlier enough that it still had a user removable battery. I had recently replaced the battery since the old one lost its charge capacity. What I didn't do, however, was made sure that the battery had been locked into place. So, I save the file after all this work, and slide the laptop off my lap and put it down on my bed to get a soda or whatever. And... yup you guessed it. The battery came out, shutting the whole thing off, and RIGHT in the middle of saving an entire day's work. I didn't even realize until I came back with my soda. So, I put the thing back in as fast as I could, and boot it back up. I see that my file was still there, but when I go to open it... ERROR: This file is corrupted and cannot be opened. After panicking internally, I remember that I did have a backup on an old hard drive... from over a month ago. I still had the file, but now, over a month's hard work was gone. Still haven't gone back to that file 8 years later.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios

    @HappyBeezerStudios

    Жыл бұрын

    The reason why even something as NTFS doesn't do move operations. It does copy and delete operations. And only in the end after everything is done does the old file get deleted. If you have a power loss in the middle of operation you don't end up with two half files and a tiny piece between them missing.

  • @xyrissavage4983

    @xyrissavage4983

    10 ай бұрын

    UGH reminded me of that time in the middle of an online music theory exam the pc crashed while i hit the key for a minim so i ended up just submitting over 70 bars of just single note minims sobbing

  • @ImoowhenIPoo
    @ImoowhenIPoo2 жыл бұрын

    Something I got told during IT school over and again was "kein backup, kein mitleid" which basicly means "no backup, no compassion/pity for you"

  • @RFC3514
    @RFC35144 жыл бұрын

    Video title should be: *Tom Scott, 'content' creator.*

  • @MartinFinnerup

    @MartinFinnerup

    4 жыл бұрын

    Totally underrated comment.

  • @matheustran8009

    @matheustran8009

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am content with this

  • @Yalikejazzboi

    @Yalikejazzboi

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your comment is great content.

  • @alexandertoucan4956

    @alexandertoucan4956

    4 жыл бұрын

    Content

  • @raajan1568

    @raajan1568

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Yalikejazzboi grow up bender

  • @canisferus
    @canisferus4 жыл бұрын

    "There are two types of people in this world. Those who make backups, and those who will start making them."

  • @whippercream8998

    @whippercream8998

    4 жыл бұрын

    Version history in google docs does this. Saving multiple backups based on the time you edited.

  • @PeterNjeim

    @PeterNjeim

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@c0ldc0ne what about the other 1000

  • @blunderbus2695

    @blunderbus2695

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@c0ldc0ne And those who didn't know that this joke was actually about ternary.

  • @vkvo2000

    @vkvo2000

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is the third type of people: the one who makes backups of backups that fail to recover.

  • @RWBHere

    @RWBHere

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@PeterNjeim Subtle, that. Thanks for making my day. 👋 😉 👍

  • @ursulap.6722
    @ursulap.67222 жыл бұрын

    The "not wanting everything you ever do to be saved" discussion reminded me of the time I was at work, regression-testing and conversing on Twitter & Facebook the side to give my brain the occasional break. I copied a snippet of the Twitter conversation with the intent of pasting it to my Facebook friend but when I saw that my Facebook friend was AFK, I went back to regression-testing. And that's how "Tbh I've always kind of had a thing for [insert kink here]" got pasted into a regression test spreadsheet that everyone on the QA team had access to -- as far as I know, I Ctrl-Z'ed quickly enough that Google didn't save it, but hoo boy was it close.

  • @rledoux99
    @rledoux992 жыл бұрын

    My brother and I didn't speak for 2+ years because of a missing *_hyphen_* - it was the difference between _"re-sent"_ and _"resent"_ . . . as in, _"I resent that email"_ rather than _"I re-sent that email"_ . . . 😣 When we finally realized the mutually-silly mistake we'd made, we had a good chuckle... but our relationship hasn't been the same ever since and it's looking like I'll never see him again. 😢 Details matter.

  • @sofiac6911

    @sofiac6911

    2 жыл бұрын

    thats sad, i hope you both come around... maybe try a little more?

  • @maybeanonymous6846

    @maybeanonymous6846

    2 жыл бұрын

    what does "resent" mean? english is not my main languagr

  • @ariannasv22

    @ariannasv22

    2 жыл бұрын

    Gosh, how important was that email?

  • @VestinVestin

    @VestinVestin

    Жыл бұрын

    > _"Details matter."_ So does error correction. Upon seeing a single detail out of place, sane people seek clarification instead of making a sudden and confident mental swerve.

  • @rledoux99

    @rledoux99

    Жыл бұрын

    @@VestinVestin oftentimes, errors aren't obvious.

  • @TianyuQi
    @TianyuQi4 жыл бұрын

    I thought the typo you made was typing "one second" as "onosecond"

  • @MandMs05

    @MandMs05

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same. I was so confused as to how it would be so bad.

  • @puzzLEGO

    @puzzLEGO

    4 жыл бұрын

    I make that mistake a bit 😂

  • @zofiadoesntneedwithstand4672

    @zofiadoesntneedwithstand4672

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @ortherner

    @ortherner

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was nanosecond

  • @muabyt7333

    @muabyt7333

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ortherner same

  • @g4l1l_buckz35
    @g4l1l_buckz354 жыл бұрын

    Guy: loses a race Guy: oh no, second

  • @user-lb4fr2ly4b

    @user-lb4fr2ly4b

    4 жыл бұрын

    heehee

  • @karthik.b1309

    @karthik.b1309

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great

  • @requiem165

    @requiem165

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ahahahah

  • @verdantbf

    @verdantbf

    4 жыл бұрын

    I've never laughed so hard

  • @Trebinhas

    @Trebinhas

    4 жыл бұрын

    Underrated

  • @USN1985dos
    @USN1985dos Жыл бұрын

    That is the worst feeling ever. I remember at one point in grad school I'd been working on a paper. I'd procrastinated, as usual, so I spent most of the night in the student lounge at the library working away. I'd gone maybe 5-6 pages since my last save and decided to take a break. I got up to go down to the coffee shop and ended up seeing a friend and chatting for a while. When I got back, my battery had died. I plugged it in, restarted it, and there was nothing. I had to beg for a one-day extension from my professor, but it was a lesson I learned well.

  • @jayzz212
    @jayzz2124 ай бұрын

    why is birthday bot feeling like this

  • @plcflame
    @plcflame4 жыл бұрын

    There's another way to tell this: "Hey, I made the database a lot lighter and fast"

  • @safe-keeper1042

    @safe-keeper1042

    4 жыл бұрын

    Angry volunteers: you deleted all the content from our 5000 pages!?!?! Tom Scott: ono, they all have content, see, it says right here on each sheet...

  • @nerd_nato564

    @nerd_nato564

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Sam Sharaf Right now? 36.

  • @kushmoosh4171

    @kushmoosh4171

    4 жыл бұрын

    Also this will be my last day.

  • @Alexus00712

    @Alexus00712

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kushmoosh4171 on earth? Is there a need to worry??

  • @raminatox

    @raminatox

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Sam Sharaf Yes

  • @emmaj8337
    @emmaj83373 жыл бұрын

    Onosecond: when you’re hagrid and you realize you shouldn’t have told them that

  • @rubeushagrid4525

    @rubeushagrid4525

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can relate

  • @limejelo

    @limejelo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why am I the only one laughing my ass off at this

  • @maximusmaro5259

    @maximusmaro5259

    3 жыл бұрын

    MinerMaster you’re not the only one

  • @allentolete5534

    @allentolete5534

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not many potterheads now that JK made Dumbledore Gay.

  • @youssefr

    @youssefr

    3 жыл бұрын

    "I should NOT have said that...

  • @IAmCyklus.
    @IAmCyklus.4 ай бұрын

    birthday bot moment

  • @randomwastaken
    @randomwastaken2 жыл бұрын

    I love how while watching a Tom Scott video, you can’t skip a second without missing so much.

  • @SteveMould
    @SteveMould4 жыл бұрын

    I broke out in a cold sweat half way through this. I had a boss once who did find and replace on a massive document that changed "I" to "we" because it was supposed to be written from the perspective of the company not the individual. There were gems like "socweal mobwelwety". It couldn't be rolled back for some reason.

  • @bassam_salim

    @bassam_salim

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just replace we with I again, what can possibly go wrong?!

  • @EdwardMillen

    @EdwardMillen

    4 жыл бұрын

    HAHAHAHAHA

  • @Healermain15

    @Healermain15

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bassam_salim Just make sure to remove every other author from the mentions, or people might get confused!

  • @arfansthename

    @arfansthename

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Playing the Wii" becomes "Playweng the Wwewe"

  • @dusklunistheumbreon

    @dusklunistheumbreon

    4 жыл бұрын

    This reads like uwu-speak. I love it

  • @sean3533
    @sean35334 жыл бұрын

    Tom Scott “content creator” since 2003

  • @yahwehagape

    @yahwehagape

    4 жыл бұрын

    Content "content" content content

  • @poobman6

    @poobman6

    4 жыл бұрын

    Content??!! CONTENT CONTENT!!!!!

  • @Nickelodeon81

    @Nickelodeon81

    4 жыл бұрын

    Con Tent

  • @mlggamingpro2578

    @mlggamingpro2578

    4 жыл бұрын

    Predicted KZread

  • @dunkrez

    @dunkrez

    4 жыл бұрын

    Content.

  • @mythrimax
    @mythrimax2 жыл бұрын

    My heart dropped when you explained what had happened. That must have been horrible

  • @paoloose
    @paoloose5 ай бұрын

    I love the fact that this belongs to 'The Basics' playlist. Teams need to understand that no matter how defensively you code, humans make errors, and that is a constant factor that needs to be taken into consideration.

  • @daviddavis4885
    @daviddavis48854 жыл бұрын

    My worst typo: Accidentally writing “the controversy over the Best Wank in Israel” on the top of a PowerPoint.

  • @first-last557

    @first-last557

    4 жыл бұрын

    i was laughing for a solid half minute

  • @puffnisse

    @puffnisse

    4 жыл бұрын

    What?

  • @GoogleAreDumb

    @GoogleAreDumb

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's rare I genuinely belly laugh out loud. Your misfortune made it happen.

  • @thohangst

    @thohangst

    4 жыл бұрын

    A Spoonerism for the ages

  • @memebro8703

    @memebro8703

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dr.Barrel They probably meant to say West Bank.

  • @MaxTheDragon
    @MaxTheDragon3 жыл бұрын

    When you work in a company, there is also the wasntmesecond when your colleague right next to you has an onosecond.

  • @babablacksheep3950

    @babablacksheep3950

    3 жыл бұрын

    Especially when that colleauge want to throw you under the bus.

  • @SodAlmighty

    @SodAlmighty

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@babablacksheep3950 Or a bunch of buses glued randomly into a diary?

  • @StraightOuttaJarhois

    @StraightOuttaJarhois

    3 жыл бұрын

    Seeing a huge fuckup happening and knowing it isn't in any way your fault is one of the sweetest feelings there are.

  • @chnacr2

    @chnacr2

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shaggysecond?

  • @dysennn

    @dysennn

    3 жыл бұрын

    whoeversmeltitdealtitsecond

  • @BendySnowball
    @BendySnowball2 жыл бұрын

    8:28 The same can be said about Chernobyl. Its always a string of minute errors that can turn a single small issue into a horrendously massive one.

  • @cerberaodollam

    @cerberaodollam

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup, and it soured the world to the best energy source for freaking ever.

  • @Cabo111
    @Cabo1114 ай бұрын

    what kind of typo was it to have all data deleted 💀

  • @misoSoup26
    @misoSoup263 жыл бұрын

    when you tell a joke but your parents turn it into a lecture o n o s e c o n d

  • @theramendutchman

    @theramendutchman

    3 жыл бұрын

    onohour if your mom's anything like mine

  • @killerbug05

    @killerbug05

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@theramendutchman onoday

  • @airygoats323

    @airygoats323

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@killerbug05 onoweek

  • @maazali9604

    @maazali9604

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@airygoats323 onomonth

  • @killerbug05

    @killerbug05

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@maazali9604 onoyear

  • @sunnerssnag
    @sunnerssnag4 жыл бұрын

    clicked on this video thinking "how long is an onosecond?" not disappointed.

  • @leotamer5

    @leotamer5

    4 жыл бұрын

    An eternity.

  • @benjaminlehmann

    @benjaminlehmann

    4 жыл бұрын

    The rest of his life, it sounds like

  • @Snaperkid

    @Snaperkid

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is simultaneously too long and not long enough.

  • @arttukettunen5757

    @arttukettunen5757

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought it meant a nanosecond

  • @FlyingDominion

    @FlyingDominion

    4 жыл бұрын

    To an outside observer, it's approximately 1 second. To someone experiencing an onosecond, approximately their entire life.

  • @AndrijGhorbunov
    @AndrijGhorbunov2 жыл бұрын

    TBH, using such similar characters as backticks and apostrophes with such a different meaning should also be counted as a bad decision by the developers of SQL

  • @begbie1888
    @begbie18882 жыл бұрын

    I once accidentally deleted a whole live database instead of the test one. I had to restore from a backup then email everyone in the company and ask them to redo their timesheets for the whole week. Onosecond is a very polite way of saying what I said in the second immediately after realising what I'd done!

  • @warshack378
    @warshack3783 жыл бұрын

    coding is like making wishes to a magic Genie, you have to be as specific as possible and you have to make sure there are no mistakes within the wish.

  • @StraightOuttaJarhois

    @StraightOuttaJarhois

    3 жыл бұрын

    Processors actually contain miniature monkey paws, transistors are make-believe.

  • @galacticgamer3028

    @galacticgamer3028

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes this is factually

  • @ArkenGAMES

    @ArkenGAMES

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nah MySQL just sucks

  • @NT-sx2bd

    @NT-sx2bd

    3 жыл бұрын

    And then it dosent work for no reason.

  • @theman13532

    @theman13532

    2 жыл бұрын

    like trying to get a starbucks worker to not call you something fuckin stupid

  • @yugitsukasa8866
    @yugitsukasa88664 жыл бұрын

    I kept on writing "workshit" instead of "worksheet" for about 2 years in school before I realized.

  • @nit-Inundate

    @nit-Inundate

    4 жыл бұрын

    hanakooooo

  • @maryjane915

    @maryjane915

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nit-Inundate thats clearly a rat, could never be hanako

  • @cobaltdev

    @cobaltdev

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mary Jane hayato

  • @wadduck67

    @wadduck67

    4 жыл бұрын

    OHHH NOOO XD NOOO NOOO OH NOOOOOO XD

  • @marinap5345

    @marinap5345

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cobaltdev My name is Kira Yoshikage, I'm 33 years old.

  • @directionerCaratMumu
    @directionerCaratMumu4 ай бұрын

    Ok so discord birthday bot brought me here hahaha

  • @Drag0nmaster

    @Drag0nmaster

    4 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @barrettross3772

    @barrettross3772

    3 ай бұрын

    What’s the story there?

  • @wadsonviola
    @wadsonviola4 ай бұрын

    Hello from Birthday Bot!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @leffeup8117
    @leffeup81173 жыл бұрын

    The onosecond, more commonly known as wildly smashing ctrl z even when you know the website doesnt support that

  • @ibraced1243

    @ibraced1243

    2 жыл бұрын

    I sometimes use French keyboard where Ctrl Z closes the window, you can imaging how many times I accidentally lost hours worth of work.

  • @circumplex9552

    @circumplex9552

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ibraced1243 aw

  • @triiodide7762

    @triiodide7762

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ibraced1243 who tf made that a thing!?!?

  • @chaotickreg7024

    @chaotickreg7024

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ibraced1243 Just undo closing the window

  • @hridinsbiju9023

    @hridinsbiju9023

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thinking it will work , when you know it won't ..but it's the last thing you can try doing...

  • @vibhamahanth2439
    @vibhamahanth24394 жыл бұрын

    That mistake is art by mistake "Content" was the right word for it lmao

  • @andymorin9163

    @andymorin9163

    4 жыл бұрын

    tap to add content

  • @lccttn848

    @lccttn848

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ryan Knutson Err

  • @vodkawhisperer3923

    @vodkawhisperer3923

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@andymorin9163 Add a public reply...

  • @dryued6874

    @dryued6874

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought that.

  • @Jack__Reaper

    @Jack__Reaper

    4 жыл бұрын

    666 likes, the devils work

  • @CErra310
    @CErra310 Жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of Master Duel where they used search & replace to swap "Magic" to "Spell" and for a short time there was a "Dark Spellian" series of cards

  • @pabloescolar_
    @pabloescolar_2 жыл бұрын

    7:37 the delivery of this sentence actually made me laugh so hard

  • @connorconnor2421
    @connorconnor24213 жыл бұрын

    That was an apostrophe catastrophe.

  • @iminyourfridge894

    @iminyourfridge894

    3 жыл бұрын

    Said the question mark

  • @maryrivera1959

    @maryrivera1959

    3 жыл бұрын

    I literally thought “onosecond” was the worst typo lmao

  • @comit8077

    @comit8077

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@maryrivera1959 mhm so does the person with the top comment Sus?

  • @anjanavabiswas8835

    @anjanavabiswas8835

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought onosecond the typo for one second

  • @imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881

    @imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881

    3 жыл бұрын

    More like phobia.

  • @WidleyWesident
    @WidleyWesident4 жыл бұрын

    The onosecond. Often spelled with a capital ‘F’.

  • @seth2250

    @seth2250

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fonosecond

  • @undefinedchannel9916

    @undefinedchannel9916

    3 жыл бұрын

    The oshitsecond

  • @steamedpings4889

    @steamedpings4889

    3 жыл бұрын

    The "ohgoodgodifuckedupsecond"

  • @danielgladstone2087

    @danielgladstone2087

    3 жыл бұрын

    The ‘IFedupsecond’

  • @gravitygames4495

    @gravitygames4495

    3 жыл бұрын

    The FrickOhGodIAmScrewedSecond

  • @peterthomas5792
    @peterthomas57922 жыл бұрын

    Sadly, hardware guys don't have the luxury of backups & transactions. I once cut out an 'unused' fibre optic cable. It's amazing just how many peoples days can be wrecked by cutting a 0.5mm fibre... And you can't just solder them back together like wires.

  • @double1777
    @double17772 жыл бұрын

    “Oh no.” “It’s due today.”

  • @21metalGears
    @21metalGears4 жыл бұрын

    Everyother: "I was young, I drank much and didn't think about consequences..." Tom: "I was young, I worked on a live database, with no transaction and didn't think about consequences..."

  • @stacyardus3898

    @stacyardus3898

    4 жыл бұрын

    which would you rather be? i know where i would rather be 🖥️💻

  • @ralphr-c7156

    @ralphr-c7156

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@stacyardus3898 You'd rather have potentially destroyed somebody else's work?

  • @amunak_

    @amunak_

    4 жыл бұрын

    In reality the issue was lack of backups, not transactions.

  • @aspol12

    @aspol12

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ralphr-c7156 i’d rather be working at a computer than drunk all the time

  • @EposVox
    @EposVox3 жыл бұрын

    this makes me way too nervous

  • @SimplyKelp

    @SimplyKelp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Howdy doo

  • @theramendutchman

    @theramendutchman

    3 жыл бұрын

    As a Back End dev, this makes my knees sweat

  • @omegaO_O

    @omegaO_O

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @trixiebell5479

    @trixiebell5479

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@theramendutchman 7h

  • @happygamingboy

    @happygamingboy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Y

  • @ZERO4LIFE
    @ZERO4LIFE2 жыл бұрын

    i dont think those volunteers felt content

  • @rex8255
    @rex82552 жыл бұрын

    In your defense, the fact that one person can FUBAR that much work (because no automated backups, someone who is specifically tasked with that each day, whatever) was even more negligent.

  • @linsproul3548
    @linsproul35484 жыл бұрын

    on april fools next year we all have to just comment the word "content" on his video to mess with him

  • @herculesmclovin

    @herculesmclovin

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm game! 😅

  • @Nylspider

    @Nylspider

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's evil tho

  • @burningfarts

    @burningfarts

    4 жыл бұрын

    you mean 'content'

  • @Win090949

    @Win090949

    4 жыл бұрын

    content

  • @chemicalfuzzy

    @chemicalfuzzy

    4 жыл бұрын

    content

  • @Space44
    @Space444 жыл бұрын

    Chrome: won’t open Me: clicks on it 30 times Also me: ono

  • @liviousgameplay1755

    @liviousgameplay1755

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tab: e x p a n d

  • @BenjaminAnderson21

    @BenjaminAnderson21

    3 жыл бұрын

    Relatable in every way

  • @UltraVioletLite

    @UltraVioletLite

    3 жыл бұрын

    y e p

  • @amvymavy

    @amvymavy

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't know why this comment made me laugh. Maybe its so relatable because I got an Intel Celeron N3350

  • @obnxsdonky9394

    @obnxsdonky9394

    3 жыл бұрын

    Anyone that dad clicks, or doesn't wait for a program to open when they know they properly opened it, deserves all the outcomes of their impatience

  • @RedBucket03
    @RedBucket034 ай бұрын

    I was brought here by a birthday bot???

  • @Drag0nmaster

    @Drag0nmaster

    4 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @dylancode
    @dylancode2 жыл бұрын

    I was almost finished on my open-source programming language I was making - over 150,000 lines of code - and I realised something was wrong: I needed more memory for my variables. So, simple, right? Just find and replace "int" with "long" and "float" with "double" (I was using C), right? I thought that might work. But, no, EVERYWHERE I had written the three letters "int",changed to "long". So, over 200 long, hard hours down the drain, all because I was too stupid to backup my 7,000 files, 150,000 lines, 3,000,000 words, 11,000,000 characters.

  • @rogervanbommel1086

    @rogervanbommel1086

    2 жыл бұрын

    Where can I find this?

  • @regina3an250

    @regina3an250

    Жыл бұрын

    Where can I show this?

  • @varahunter68

    @varahunter68

    7 ай бұрын

    intelligence longelligence

  • @TypicalGoosie
    @TypicalGoosie3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine creating 5798 rows of content in 0.01 seconds. Productivity achieved.

  • @1233ghkkl

    @1233ghkkl

    3 жыл бұрын

    😎👍

  • @iratezebra1

    @iratezebra1

    3 жыл бұрын

    😎👍

  • @Panda2.000

    @Panda2.000

    3 жыл бұрын

    😎👍

  • @puremadness1915

    @puremadness1915

    3 жыл бұрын

    Best comment

  • @catgirlcumdump4491

    @catgirlcumdump4491

    3 жыл бұрын

    😎👍

  • @somethingtowatch8187
    @somethingtowatch81873 жыл бұрын

    "Oh, that's not the right word, we should delete that..." ***deletes the internet***

  • @imveryangryitsnotbutter

    @imveryangryitsnotbutter

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Oh, that's not the right word, we should delete that..." "Oh, 's not the right word, we should delete ..."

  • @AlexanderPrussak

    @AlexanderPrussak

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hate when I accidentally delete the Internet and have to recreate all of its content 😔

  • @CharleyCheno

    @CharleyCheno

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@AlexanderPrussak if you delete the internet, most content wont be lost...

  • @ananttiwari1337

    @ananttiwari1337

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CharleyCheno Yes it will.

  • @CharleyCheno

    @CharleyCheno

    3 жыл бұрын

    rip servers then

  • @raphaelmorgan2307
    @raphaelmorgan23072 жыл бұрын

    3:04 it's okay, I heard someone say "zed" in an American accent earlier, you're just restoring the balance of the universe

  • @Abstract_zx

    @Abstract_zx

    Жыл бұрын

    i believe some canadians say it as "zed" and some canadians have a very similar accent to americans

  • @addison1024

    @addison1024

    24 күн бұрын

    I honestly prefer zed to zee, and I'd honestly take it up. I also prefer "aluminium" and want to prefer the metric system, so I may be a European masquerading as an American

  • @justwhytho_omg
    @justwhytho_omg10 ай бұрын

    I always make sure I double check whenever I type “bigger.” B and n are scarily close on the keyboard

  • @gamechep
    @gamechep4 жыл бұрын

    Surgeon: _"Pass the forceps"_ Nurse: _"But the patient is dead!"_ Surgeon: *_"ROLLBACK"_*

  • @andrevidal5771

    @andrevidal5771

    4 жыл бұрын

    *No transaction to rollback*

  • @blank-vw2sb

    @blank-vw2sb

    4 жыл бұрын

    *No life to rollback*

  • @danielsilva9502

    @danielsilva9502

    4 жыл бұрын

    They were working on a live database though

  • @stilo2703

    @stilo2703

    4 жыл бұрын

    Restart from checkpoint

  • @insertnamehere8096

    @insertnamehere8096

    4 жыл бұрын

    Restore from last backup

  • @8888k
    @8888k4 жыл бұрын

    I can just imagine someone trying to access a file and is just presented with "content", then it happens again, and again...

  • @koen203

    @koen203

    4 жыл бұрын

    content content content content content

  • @kornsuwin

    @kornsuwin

    4 жыл бұрын

    content

  • @marshallk.5943

    @marshallk.5943

    4 жыл бұрын

    content content content

  • @TheAlps36

    @TheAlps36

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tom's going to have a heart attack reading this comment thread

  • @makismakiavelis5718

    @makismakiavelis5718

    4 жыл бұрын

    @AUltimateHorizonAirman That 0.001% became 100% the moment I clicked on your name and landed at your channel.

  • @k-d-n
    @k-d-n2 жыл бұрын

    Once I forgot a "::" in a batch file used to biosupdate laptops. More than 200 laptops was build and updated, before the error was discovered. All of the laptops was flashed with the wrong BIOS! 200 bricked laptops!!!

  • @Chief-CO
    @Chief-CO2 жыл бұрын

    Coming back to this video every time I have an "Oh no" second. Today is 3/6/2022: I just noticed after restarting my servers that my Sambashare full of files was on a tmp folder that got deleted after system restart.

  • @ColinBroderickMaths
    @ColinBroderickMaths4 жыл бұрын

    "Worst spelling mistake ever" Ehh, how bad could it be? "SQL" Oh .... Oh no ....

  • @ErzengelDesLichtes

    @ErzengelDesLichtes

    4 жыл бұрын

    Colin Broderick To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. Paul R. Ehrlich

  • @itsmugel

    @itsmugel

    4 жыл бұрын

    onosecond

  • @mariushsk05

    @mariushsk05

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ErzengelDesLichtes "In most cases, the error sits 30cm in front of the screen" Dunno who said this Übrigens, hi, bin auch Deutsch

  • @aolson5795

    @aolson5795

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mariushsk05 "PEBKAC" - Problem exists between keyboard and chair

  • @mariushsk05

    @mariushsk05

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@aolson5795 Thanks. I tried to translate it from german to english. Well, my english isn't the best :)

  • @noobiesmurf
    @noobiesmurf4 жыл бұрын

    I was waiting for, "Fortunately.... " It never came.

  • @DerpyNub

    @DerpyNub

    4 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately... we never heard fortunately...

  • @nufcgalore1474

    @nufcgalore1474

    4 жыл бұрын

    666 likes, let’s not make Satan mad shall we?

  • @Vousie

    @Vousie

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nufcgalore1474 Yes... It's amazing how every comment with over 700 likes has at some point had exactly 666 likes isn't it?

  • @TrickShotKoopa

    @TrickShotKoopa

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Vousie If we're being exact, 667 would arguably be a better number to use in your comment

  • @NolePTR

    @NolePTR

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fortunately, I wasn't paying them.

  • @agreatstar
    @agreatstar2 жыл бұрын

    All articles finally ended up having some real content!

  • @dunpealhunter
    @dunpealhunter2 жыл бұрын

    This has to be one of the best ads for a password manager. Honestly that buildup to it was incredible!

  • @Shebbi04
    @Shebbi043 жыл бұрын

    Everybody experiences the onosecond when they are tipping their chair in school and lose balance.

  • @Ron.S.

    @Ron.S.

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or really don’t pull out

  • @likemysnopp

    @likemysnopp

    3 жыл бұрын

    im now unable to speak due to the brain injury the fall caused for me. that was a dark joke now wasnt it

  • @varunvc532

    @varunvc532

    3 жыл бұрын

    that's me rn

  • @varunvc532

    @varunvc532

    3 жыл бұрын

    like frikkin rn

  • @AmnesiaForever

    @AmnesiaForever

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@maya_yaser Straight outta anime

  • @OnionChoppingNinja
    @OnionChoppingNinja4 жыл бұрын

    as an IT guy myself; let me in on the secret language we apply: when we are curing and shouting profanities at the system we're working with, usually that means things are going great. Once we very quietly say 'oops' or ' o no' however.... that's usually the point where you should start panicking.

  • @sydneato

    @sydneato

    4 жыл бұрын

    my personal favourite is the soft "ahh..". customers or clients will probably just brush it off, but your co-workers know exactly what's going on, and usually send a couple pity-glances your way.

  • @anatolydyatlov963

    @anatolydyatlov963

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's so true...

  • @hansamitamajee1930

    @hansamitamajee1930

    4 жыл бұрын

    U could have *replaced* the *'- - -'* with *'content'* after this has happened.

  • @CookieGal-

    @CookieGal-

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is so true, the "oh no" is when it has gone extremely wrong.

  • @zekiz774

    @zekiz774

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hansamitamajee1930 No you couldn't because then you replace 'content' with 'content'. Fill a page with 1s and 2s. Than replace the 2s with 1s. If I follow your logic after that you could replace the 1s with 2s and everything will be the exact same as before.

  • @coptotermes
    @coptotermes2 жыл бұрын

    I totally relate to this. I made a mistake many years ago where I hit the delete key while in just the wrong place. The feeling in the seconds afterwards was just dread at the realisation of what I had just done. Panic, disbelief, confusion, indecision, shock! Several days of work was needed to fix my little mistake. Life lesson learned.

  • @tuliosabatino
    @tuliosabatino2 жыл бұрын

    This is the origin story of Tom Scott creating online content

  • @funnylookinrat
    @funnylookinrat3 жыл бұрын

    The onosecond is basically a bruh moment

  • @kermitthefrogdad4003

    @kermitthefrogdad4003

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's a bruh moment but with more panik

  • @novarender_

    @novarender_

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bronosecond

  • @gavrielataravari

    @gavrielataravari

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@novarender_ brunosecond

  • @defconzero

    @defconzero

    3 жыл бұрын

    ofucksecond

  • @rustinpiss2134

    @rustinpiss2134

    3 жыл бұрын

    5000 pages of bruh

  • @OldManBOMBIN
    @OldManBOMBIN8 ай бұрын

    I worked in a call center for Verizon back in 07 or so; we'd occasionally get calls from people who were needing to speak to the cable side of things and we'd have to transfer them. One day, I learned that the cable division number was one digit away from a naughty-naughty number, because I accidentally transferred a very angry man there. He was not happy when he called back.

  • @michaelmcdowell7096
    @michaelmcdowell7096 Жыл бұрын

    We all got to own up to and learn from our mistakes, it’s good for people to know other people can and do screw up. Thanks for sharing.

  • @antivanti
    @antivanti4 жыл бұрын

    "If you haven't tested your backup you do not have a backup"

  • @sirBrouwer

    @sirBrouwer

    4 жыл бұрын

    and one is none. two is one, three is some.

  • @CChallinor

    @CChallinor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its not a backup until it is restored....cos a write only backup is useless

  • @gamermanh

    @gamermanh

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@CChallinor Not a backup 'til it's restored, been used for at LEAST a few years, and let's add in that the hard disk it's on should probably start degrading physically before we call ourselves certain

  • @kemalsorucuoglu3689

    @kemalsorucuoglu3689

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wise words

  • @konstantinkh

    @konstantinkh

    4 жыл бұрын

    The closest I've come to testing this is accidentally nuking a dev server database during a "routine" upgrade at 11pm at night. Upgrade involved getting new version of k8s and the fact that the instance had no SSD assigned to it and was writing to memory was discovered after everything came back blank. Fortunately backups did work, and the worst part of the incident turned out to be the timing. See, 11pm was also when the last coffee shop around closed, meaning I had to do a full manual recovery on gas station coffee. We established better protocol for verifying we had good backups before running upgrades. All of the work on our live server went without a glitch. Startups are fun. Never a dull moment.

  • @colbyfletcher7825
    @colbyfletcher78254 жыл бұрын

    The second you send the wrong homework folder to the teacher.

  • @ceruchi2084

    @ceruchi2084

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Uh, Colby, I just received your Hentai report... and you'll be needed at the Principal's Office this afternoon."

  • @whitealliance9540

    @whitealliance9540

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ceruchi2084 you as well, where are the black people in this page?

  • @supercomputer0448

    @supercomputer0448

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ceruchi2084 A+ see me after class ;)

  • @ericcao4829

    @ericcao4829

    4 жыл бұрын

    When you realize the assignment 4 weeks ago was a 0 ‘cos you accidentally submitted a blank file

  • @safe-keeper1042

    @safe-keeper1042

    4 жыл бұрын

    What if you submitted an essay where every page just contained the word "homework"?

  • @thanos326
    @thanos3262 жыл бұрын

    When you and your mom are arguing and you slam your door a little too hard

  • @nehemiahkenny5027
    @nehemiahkenny5027 Жыл бұрын

    Tom, Today, I changed a simple security setting on a client server. Very simple thing. Any user in folder "users" can't ask the server for a list of usernames. So if a user gets hacked, the hacker can't find out the username of an admin account to hack that. It's not our standard. It's never been done with any of our clients. But for this one, it's how it was. Presumably a relic of their previous IT. Our primary admin account was in the normal users folder, rather than a special folder for itself. On our biggest client, I applied that security update to the folder and our main admin account. The email sync ran. The account didn't see any users or email lists. It deleted all of the email lists, and no one could send email as the various departments they needed to send as. With some quick thinking and scripting, I managed to fix it, but not before people were keenly aware it'd broke. -Nehemiah Kenny, IT Professional of six years

  • @wakkowarner3716

    @wakkowarner3716

    Жыл бұрын

    Well that sucks. At least you managed to fix it.

  • @nehemiahkenny5027

    @nehemiahkenny5027

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wakkowarner3716 You're telling me! That would've been my job gone, if I couldn't.

  • @thatellipsisguy8984
    @thatellipsisguy89844 жыл бұрын

    Shows how wholesome Tom is: most of us don’t say 'Oh no' in that second...

  • @bretsutherlandsterriblemem8439

    @bretsutherlandsterriblemem8439

    4 жыл бұрын

    it’s not an onosecond, it’s an ofucksecond

  • @hyweljones718

    @hyweljones718

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bretsutherlandsterriblemem8439 I'd refer to it as a buggersecond.

  • @user-ql9cc9hg4e

    @user-ql9cc9hg4e

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hyweljones718 ur mom uwu

  • @GumSkyloard

    @GumSkyloard

    4 жыл бұрын

    You've never watched the Park Bench..

  • @lxmental

    @lxmental

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hyweljones718 I refer to is as a FUUUUU--- second

  • @pixell2520
    @pixell25204 жыл бұрын

    "Every single page just replaced with the word content" Well, at least you have a good description for the website... at least what it used to have.

  • @EdwardMillen

    @EdwardMillen

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Our website has a lot of content"

  • @aolson5795

    @aolson5795

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably would be an improvement for many web sites tbh

  • @minecrafter9099

    @minecrafter9099

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EdwardMillen Has 5000 contents!

  • @Monody512

    @Monody512

    4 жыл бұрын

    The heaviest lossy compression ever.

  • @safe-keeper1042

    @safe-keeper1042

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Monody512 This gave me an image in my head of somehow replacing 5000 images with a blank white image with text saying "IMAGE".

  • @lewisc3317
    @lewisc33172 жыл бұрын

    Manager: How is that website coming along? Him: Ohhh. It had alot of content.. Manager: Can I see? Him: Sure....

  • @TrevorDennis100
    @TrevorDennis100 Жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of a time so long ago we only had one PC in an engineering department, and it ran MS DOS. One of the engineers was at a loose end, and decided to tidy up the files. One thing he found were these ... files that seemed to have no purpose, so he deleted them. I can't remember exactly what those files did, but I think it was something like file allocation table.

  • @fuseteam
    @fuseteam4 жыл бұрын

    me: "how bad could it be? it's not like they used a lot of triple dashes" tom: "... backticks-" me; "ono"

  • @tekvax01

    @tekvax01

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I've made the ' for an ` error before! Luckily it just threw a syntax error and not a "hose-the-entire-database" command...

  • @nathan87

    @nathan87

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tekvax01 I once created a temporary table with a name that was just a little too similar to the content table of a forum. And yup, then accidentally deleted the wrong table... Fortunately there were backups, but that was when I learnt the same lesson Tom is talking about.

  • @tylisirn

    @tylisirn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Backticks as a syntactic element is the most asinine idea ever that has risen from UNIX heritage. The difference is literally 1-2 pixels on a standard terminal font and you can't even type them easily in all keyboard layouts around the world.

  • @hansamitamajee1930

    @hansamitamajee1930

    4 жыл бұрын

    U could have *replaced* the *'- - -'* with *'content'* after this has happened. Oyes

  • @Ctrl_Alt_Elite

    @Ctrl_Alt_Elite

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hansamitamajee1930 no you could not, it changed ~5000 fields to "content"... so your solution would replace all instances of 'content' with '---' 😆 so the articles would be '---' repeated loads of times, and that's why it's so horrible

  • @louisng114
    @louisng1144 жыл бұрын

    3:04 "control zee" *British citizenship revoked* 3:06 "or zed" *ROLLBACK*

  • @thohangst

    @thohangst

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Hwen Terese no deposit no return

  • @silkwesir1444

    @silkwesir1444

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Hwen Terese but doesn't that kinda work like it... if after 6 weeks (or was it months?) you have no citizenship of any other state, you will automatically be considered a British citizen again ... so that you don't become "stateless", which would be in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • @stevosteve
    @stevosteve Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant. So feel for you. I personally no longer EVER work on 'live' files unless there is a minimum 30 day uncompressed backup file retained on a seperate drive array. Yup, in the past, been there, done that.

  • @jamesburninglopll3777
    @jamesburninglopll37772 жыл бұрын

    This guy raises my anxiety but calms me at the same time x