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chad_oliver on Feb 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke yo...

No, that sentence is ambiguous. Consider the phrase 'make me a sandwich', which has an identical structure and is understood the same way the OP understood 'Make [Your Name] a Test Account'.

duskwuff on Feb 24, 2011 | [–]

And, if pressing a button labelled "Make Chad A Sandwich" turned you (irreversibly) into a sandwich, I can only imagine that you wouldn't be happy about the semantic ambiguity. :)

biot on Feb 24, 2011 | | [–]

Clearly it's the "sudo make me a sandwich" button that would turn you into a sandwich.

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