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Forgot $
Like sex, an operating system is better when it's free
I changed the $ in bash to § because fuck capitalism, keep your currency out of my free software
That's the currency in The Sims...
How will you escape $var usage in scripts though :P
I've... never had to do that. What does it do?
bash uses $ character to indicate variables. for example, you can see your current environment variables with the env command. then to see a specific variable echo $var to print its value.
scripts may call variables for a variety of reasons. one common case would be collecting information from the environment it's running under to determine whether it's compatible.
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... grep?
I'm gonna tie you too the radiator, and grep you in the mouth for decades, and decades, and decades!
To the radiator. It’s not also.
The Hammurderer is quickly becoming regarded as the worst-received advertising mascot since Kool-Aid’s 1989 discontinuation of “The Grapist,” a huge purple monster who sodomizes thirsty children.
Sounds pretty close to grope or grab.
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Don't forget all the master/slave terminology
Tbf, we're trying to get away from that one
Has there been “slave” anywhere for a while? The last time I can think is PATA, which is ancient by now.
It seems like most (all?) uses of “master” these days are in the sense of a “master copy”, which doesn’t really have a “master/slave” dynamic to it.
I hear "master" all the time, usually replaced with "main" or "parent". I NEVER hear "slave" unless im in extremely old server bios. It shocked me the first time i saw it, which was around 2017
Yep, gotta work with that on a daily basis because its in the protocol I have to work with.
And I’m so glad, and my boomer coworkers still complain
I don't see the issue but I find Dom/Sub better anyway.
USB-OTG should just have been named USB Power Bottom. That makes USB-Type-C the embodiment of a switch.
Yeah, I've heard. I've always associated the terms with dom/sub play, not slavery.
I get the reasoning as to why, but it seems odd to me that the IT terms were fixated on, but not the engineering terms; "master" and "slave" are still the accepted terms in the context of hydraulic systems, for example.
It's also generally accepted that "retard" and "retarded" are generally acceptable terms when used in an engineering context. If we can accept that some terms are accepted in the a technical context, it seems inconsistent not to apply the same thinking to IT terminology.
Just more stuff to keep us bickering with each other so we don't look up and realize where all the real problems are coming from, imo.
I use main instead of master on git, but what's the substitute to slave? Especially in master/slave setups like you have 1 processor controlling a bunch of measuring equipment for example.
I've seen controller/worker which seems pretty descriptive
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Or the process terminology: "How to kill parent?" "How to spawn child?" "How to terminate zombie child?" Kinda forked if you ask me.
My worst search was "How to kill orphaned child" I didn't even think about how it sounded until I saw it typed out in the search box lol
I think the go-to option is an elaborate death trap that will prove to be easily escapable in the next episode.
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"ffmpeg" 🤨
"Nobody mention the GIMP"
Bring out the GIMP
It's not, trust me. Now football, that is horny. Tight end, going deep, hand off.
I just put my network card into promiscuous mode
Look who coined the terms. Like the Silicon Valley stoners/hippies who came up with bit, byte, and nibble.
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They forgot master/slave in version control systems.
You used to have master and slave processes too until it was changed to parent and child
Always with all the questions. You want in or not?
"Ey gurl, don't act like you ain't see my pull request. Lemme deep scan dem packets."
It's the man-in-the-Middle.
I like how the most prominent part of the screenshot is the person explaining the joke in an unfunny way
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