• cerement@slrpnk.net
      1·
      2 months ago

      “Hacker folklore that pays homage to ‘wizards’ and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.”

      —The Jargon File

    • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yeah lol I’m familiar with “kill child” in a process management context, but I’ve never seen the word “sacrifice” come up. Is that a thing?

      • thallamabond@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        /*

        • If any of p’s children has a different mm and is eligible for kill,
        • the one with the highest oom_badness() score is sacrificed for its
        • parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
        • still freeing memory. */
  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I love that she sees a screen of text she doesn’t understand, finds a few parts she does and freaks out, but turns out she doesn’t understand those either.

  • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    2 months ago

    Translation: “HELP I JUST BOUGHT THIS THING OFF AMAZON THAT’S SUPPOSED TO GIVE ME FREE TV TO DISTRACT MY KIDS BUT NOW ITS SAYING THINGS I DONT UNDERSTAND AND IM SCARED”

    Also, please someone send her a L1ZY

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      1·
      2 months ago

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  • OmgItBurns@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not even at the point of processing if this is satire or not. Is the context that killing a process is offensive? I mean I get ‘sacrifice child’, but ‘kill process’?