Playground zone signs where I live often read "slow children playing". It's supposed to be "slow (children playing)" but I always get a kick out of reading it as "(slow children) playing".
A bit like when we renamed all the master/slave terminology using different phrasing that's frankly more useful a lot of the time, I think it's about time we got rid of this "child" task nonsense. I suggest "subtask". Then we can reword these books into something that no-one can make stupid jokes about any more, like "how to keep your subs in line" and "how to punish your subs when they've misbehaved".
Oh, thats why captains in Star Trek do it every even remotely excusable change they get.
("Why did we dump the core & why did it detonate??" - "I wanted to see if I can brew coffee in the vacuum of space.")
“Wah wah I’m a victim look they’re going to attack me any second now!”
I hope you figure out whatever’s destroying your sense of self-worth and causing you to attack margainalisized communities to protect what’s left of your ego. That’s both a dig and a genuine dose of sympathy.
Some people like to be victim, some like drama and some are Mimosa on behalf of others. Augenmass is needed in such cases, instead of joining the drama.
Yes, sometimes it’s better to just leave the shitty person to be shitty but not calling people out also validates their shitty opinions. I’m glad you’re in a place of privilege to just ignore it but maybe practice your own fuckin’ augenmaß and butt out if you don’t have anything constructive to say.
Wait, what happened here? Is this picture supposed to be offensive somehow? Is there a place you can see deleted lemmy comments like you can see deleted reddit comments?
Just someone trying to “get ahead of the people who will complain that it’s not politically correct”. Like, no one is complaining but they’re already mad for…some reason.
He refuses to update the identification info for contributers? Why? It's the least they can do for people who offer their time and expertise for the project.
Presumably he'd be happy to do so if they got married and changed their name, so it sounds like he's probably a transphobe, right?
No, it's when someone wanted to change docs to say "they" when referring to the user. I don't think it was really necessary, but refusal to do that looks like a statement I don't like.
It's busy work. Reviewing it to make sure they didn't fuck it up takes away time to do literally anything else. It adds zero value, it only has downsides.
It's the number of the signal sent, 9 is for SIGKILL. You can send various signals with kill, and depending on how application was made it may react on all signals with dying, or meaningfully process most of them. Afaik, SIGKILL can't be processed by the app, and it always means just that: "die already".
Checked in Wikipedia, that's about right but there are more details I left out, mostly because didn't know about them, too: POSIX signals
In languages like C, your application code can register what is called a signal handler. These functions get called when the process receives a signal. You could do something like reload a config file for example, without the user needing to stop and restart the process.
Many here will be seeing this for the first time. For others it will be a fun reminder of something they haven't seen for a long time. Still others will find it to be the same old tired shit they're sick of.
When you see the same old tired shit on Lemmy (or any social media), just move on. There will be plenty that is new to you.
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Don’t forget automatically killing orphans
Before killing yourself, it's your responsibility to kill your children
...and people worry about the name of a git branch.
Garbage collection is such an evil thing...
"how to kill orphaned children in Java"
what do you mean Java is also the name of an island
Java (pronounced jay-va) is also the name of a town near me in Western NY.
You should tell them that this pronunciation sucks.
Wait until you hear there's a town in NY named Gotham--pronounced GOthum.
Wait until you hear of a little state called Arkansas.
Playground zone signs where I live often read "slow children playing". It's supposed to be "slow (children playing)" but I always get a kick out of reading it as "(slow children) playing".
https://xkcd.com/37/
Dumping core FTW
I'd like more pixels please. Literally can't read it...
I could make out a line that says div element contained inline span child, forcing all children to be wrapped in a block.
Pixel machine broke
I actually got flagged on reddit for a joke comment I made with a 3 liner code block that had something like
thread.kill()It thought I was promoting violence lol
Reddit: for bots, by bots
Imagine the possibilities when AI gets involved and can't distinguish between killing children (programming) vs IRL.
A bit like when we renamed all the master/slave terminology using different phrasing that's frankly more useful a lot of the time, I think it's about time we got rid of this "child" task nonsense. I suggest "subtask". Then we can reword these books into something that no-one can make stupid jokes about any more, like "how to keep your subs in line" and "how to punish your subs when they've misbehaved".
"How to enter subspace" "How to bind subs"
I don't think changing a profession's terms to "prevent stupid jokes" is a smart move.
Whoosh?
When your entire identity is about pooping.
Isn't yours?
At some I added logging to a thread pool, when it gave up on child-threads, it would be logging things like
"Child 123 is being aborted"
Not the best of phrasing for people that didn't know what that was about...
Oh, so that's where the creator of ReiserFS got the idea.
That was his wife.
Oh, thats why captains in Star Trek do it every even remotely excusable change they get.
("Why did we dump the core & why did it detonate??" - "I wanted to see if I can brew coffee in the vacuum of space.")
He dumped core. All over the floor. What a mess.
the queen of/g/
Is this the one from [ https://os-book.com ]?!
“Wah wah I’m a victim look they’re going to attack me any second now!”
I hope you figure out whatever’s destroying your sense of self-worth and causing you to attack margainalisized communities to protect what’s left of your ego. That’s both a dig and a genuine dose of sympathy.
Someone feels called out?
Some people like to be victim, some like drama and some are Mimosa on behalf of others. Augenmass is needed in such cases, instead of joining the drama.
Augenmass? Keeping distance or something?
Crap, it's only used in swiss and austria?
Ability to be prudent in certain situations.
Well, as they say, "common sense is not very common", but thinking a bit before rushing in may always do good.
::: spoiler about the "quote" It actually should read
as written by Voltaire, it appears, but I didn't know that and only met derivatives of this quote.
It's not, but then I'm Bavarian. What do I know about the rest of Germany?
No?
Yes, sometimes it’s better to just leave the shitty person to be shitty but not calling people out also validates their shitty opinions. I’m glad you’re in a place of privilege to just ignore it but maybe practice your own fuckin’ augenmaß and butt out if you don’t have anything constructive to say.
You're a bad example of what i said.
Sure thing, bud.
Wait, what happened here? Is this picture supposed to be offensive somehow? Is there a place you can see deleted lemmy comments like you can see deleted reddit comments?
Just someone trying to “get ahead of the people who will complain that it’s not politically correct”. Like, no one is complaining but they’re already mad for…some reason.
Yeah i just see a deleted comment and insane chaos...
Oh bore off you big fanny
In reference to the master-slave thing i guess?
He refuses to update the identification info for contributers? Why? It's the least they can do for people who offer their time and expertise for the project.
Presumably he'd be happy to do so if they got married and changed their name, so it sounds like he's probably a transphobe, right?
No, it's when someone wanted to change docs to say "they" when referring to the user. I don't think it was really necessary, but refusal to do that looks like a statement I don't like.
I mean that is sexist tbf
I didn't label him a sexist. But that is a sexist act. Assuming a man because programming fundamentally is sexist.
It's busy work. Reviewing it to make sure they didn't fuck it up takes away time to do literally anything else. It adds zero value, it only has downsides.
I would say being more inclusive is bringing value.
There's a massive issue with women being under-represented in STEM and little things like this only further cement that.
It's casual sexism. I'm not suggesting they are intentionally hating on women.
Assuming it's a man because it's programming is fundamentally sexist.
What downsides would they be?
The downside is the time taken.
The same like "gendern" in some german media?
Damn. This would have been a really clever joke if that was a real problem and not just something you made upto feel like your overcoming oppression.
Could we please let this 30+ year old joke just die?
Nah, we gotta
kill, preferably with-9. 🤣You know I’ve known for decades that -9 is basically “nuke it from orbit”, but does anyone know what the “9” actually means or where it came from?
It's the number of the signal sent,
9is forSIGKILL. You can send various signals with kill, and depending on how application was made it may react on all signals with dying, or meaningfully process most of them. Afaik,SIGKILLcan't be processed by the app, and it always means just that: "die already".Checked in Wikipedia, that's about right but there are more details I left out, mostly because didn't know about them, too: POSIX signals
Thank you! That’s what I was looking for.
In languages like C, your application code can register what is called a signal handler. These functions get called when the process receives a signal. You could do something like reload a config file for example, without the user needing to stop and restart the process.
You can use
kill -l(lowercase L) to see a list of signals. But IIRC it’s the same as-KILL.EDIT: fixed the signal name.
TERM is the default (15). 9 is KILL
Thank you!
Just for this comment I'm reposting this next week.
Many here will be seeing this for the first time. For others it will be a fun reminder of something they haven't seen for a long time. Still others will find it to be the same old tired shit they're sick of.
When you see the same old tired shit on Lemmy (or any social media), just move on. There will be plenty that is new to you.
We’re gonna put it on a scheduled repost loop, with it being stickied for at least an hour every post. A different hour each time too.
I wonder what the children of this joke would be...
i agree, it's time to let the next generation take over, grandpa
No die, is funni