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        something sarcastic you can say to non-technical people when they repeatedly give you misguided technical instructions that are impossible, impractical, dangerous, or overly time-consuming        
          
      
          
      
      
    
  
      "Whatever, dude," replied the programmer when his manager asked him to work overtime to recover his deleted files.