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happily
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happily /adv./ Of software, used to emphasize that a program
is unaware of some important fact about its environment, either
because it has been fooled into believing a lie, or because it
doesn't care. The sense of `happy' here is not that of elation,
but rather that of blissful ignorance. "The program continues to
run, happily unaware that its output is going to /dev/null." Also
used to suggest that a program or device would really rather be
doing something destructive, and is being given an opportunity to
do so. "If you enter an O here instead of a zero, the program
will happily erase all your data."
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