“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.
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?
Dumping Core
When your entire identity is about pooping.
Oh, so that’s where the creator of ReiserFS got the idea.
Dumping core
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.
Is this the one from [ https://os-book.com ]?!
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In reference to the master-slave thing i guess?
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I mean that is sexist tbf
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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.
Just for this comment I’m reposting this next week.
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 agree, it’s time to let the next generation take over, grandpa
No die, is funni
