The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
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@ben_lubar I know that's a joke but apparently I can actually use emoji in
bash
. TIL.$ cd 🥖Volumes🥖 -bash: cd: 🥖Volumes🥖: No such file or directory
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@loopback0 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@ben_lubar I know that's a joke but apparently I can actually use emoji in
bash
. TIL.$ cd 🥖Volumes🥖 -bash: cd: 🥖Volumes🥖: No such file or directory
There's very little restriction for what characters you can use in Linux for a filename. For example, you can make files consisting entirely of control characters if memory serves.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@loopback0 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@ben_lubar I know that's a joke but apparently I can actually use emoji in
bash
. TIL.$ cd 🥖Volumes🥖 -bash: cd: 🥖Volumes🥖: No such file or directory
There's very little restriction for what characters you can use in Linux for a filename. For example, you can make files consisting entirely of control characters if memory serves.
Is it legal to murder people who do that? If not, I think that would be an important thing to change.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
There's very little restriction for what characters you can use in Linux for a filename.
Sure but even on MacOS I wasn't expecting to just able to use an emoji like any other character in
bash
or on the CLI at all.@Tsaukpaetra said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
For example, you can make files consisting entirely of control characters if memory serves.
Yes but then the entire IT community is permitted by law to kill you slowly and painfully.
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@loopback0 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@Tsaukpaetra said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
There's very little restriction for what characters you can use in Linux for a filename.
Sure but even on MacOS I wasn't expecting to just able to use an emoji like any other character in
bash
or on the CLI at all.@Tsaukpaetra said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
For example, you can make files consisting entirely of control characters if memory serves.
Yes but then the entire IT community is permitted by law to kill you slowly and painfully.
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@Zecc said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@ben_lubar said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
If I ever make an OS....
:baguette:
-> picture of a croissant
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@ben_lubar said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
:baguette:
-> picture of acroissantbagelAnd blame autocomplete, but refuse to fix it because of backwards compatibility.
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@Scarlet_Manuka
I just checked this morning in all the bakeries (1) of this southern French town ... All their bread was French ... Even the that didn't look like
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@Luhmann Are they even allowed to call themselves 'boulangerie' if they don't bake their own?
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@PleegWat Don't go into there...
Let's just say there are "boulangerie" and "terminal de cuisson" (literally, "baking station").
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@remi
Isn't that last one more something for supermarkets and stuff?
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@Luhmann Not necessarily, no. It more or less started this way, but more and more supermarkets tend to have true "boulangeries" (in the same way as they now have butchers etc.), while some small shops that sell a lot of pastries, sandwiches etc. are just "terminaux de cuisson".
I don't know any first-hand example but I've heard of some rather high-end patisseries that technically are not boulangeries (mostly because their business is to sell cakes, which do not require a boulanger, even if for convenience they also sell some stuff usually sold by boulangeries).
edit: also, boulangerie only cover bread making, not pastries, and it's pretty well known that even "true" boulangeries sell a lot of pastries that are made elsewhere and just baked (or defrosted) in the shop (things that are big no-no for true boulangeries).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
Is it legal to murder people who do that? If not, I think that would be an important thing to change.
You'd think so, but it's more important for Linux to be shitty and broken all the time.
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@Luhmann said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
All their bread was French ...
Oh, the pain!
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@Zecc said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@Luhmann said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
All their bread was French ...
Oh, the pain!
After that joke, I'm in pain.
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@tharpa
If you try to eat your way out, be sure to add additional exercise to your routine, otherwise all those carbs will go straight to your ass.
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@izzion said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@tharpa
If you try to eat your way out, be sure to add additional exercise to your routine, otherwise all those carbs will go straight to your ass.A calorie's a calorie, whether it's carbohydrate, or protein, or fat, fads not withstanding. Although it's true that burros are more interested in carbs.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
you can make files consisting entirely of control characters if memory serves.
I knew someone at university who did that. He had a directory called
.do_not_look_in_here
in his home dir on the shared server with all permissions removed (including for himself). Inside were selected filenames that made … well, extensive use of the more obscure features of standard terminals. Not only would listing the directory make a message scroll across the top of the terminal window, but would also reprogram the terminal so that it would then log you out once the message finished (through reprogramming key sequences or something like that). The result? He got a call from a horrified sysadmin saying “WHAT DID YOU DO?! What?” to which he responded by asking them why they were poking around in explicitly private files. He was an asshole (and got himself into major trouble with the university a year or so later), but from him I learned both to properly secure network sessions from access by others (this was before ssh was a common thing) and why all modern versions ofls
will quote or replace suspicious characters in filenames (because he did actually report the overall system vulnerability he exploited). He was the sort of person who would fuzz-test a service before using it normally…
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@dkf That sounds fun! Too bad it sounds like it's fixed now...
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"What kind of bar serves half-beers?"
Um, any pub? Seriously, can you not buy half pints in America?
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@dkf In a university class, I noticed all the computers in the local network had full ssh access enabled without any password (possibly even root access, I don't remember).
I pointed that out to the teacher, and he just said "yes, you can easily mess with anyone's computer, just don't do it". So I just left it there.
I then realized that by making it trivial to "hack" each other's computers, they had removed the challenge that people with hacker mentality crave and made it pointless to do so.
(people did mess around a bit with each other's computers, but it was mostly just launching and closing the calculator)
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@PJH said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
There's a local version of that joke which is at least 15-ish years old:
What's the name of the mountain 8 times the height of Velebit?
Velebytehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velebit
@anonymous234 said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
I pointed that out to the teacher, and he just said "yes, you can easily mess with anyone's computer, just don't do it".
A server on the university I was at that we got access to so we can write some code for a class about operating systems (it was a Solaris machine IIRC, they told people to use that since most of the stuff we had to do was 10x simpler on *NIX) had no limit on per-user processes.
They pointed out we can fork bomb the thing no problem and just instructed us not to do it. I wonder how many people did it on accident though (I didn't connect to it much so I don't know if it was ever down around that time, I used my local Linux install for assignments).
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@Jaloopa said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
"What kind of bar serves half-beers?"
Um, any pub? Seriously, can you not buy half pints in America?
A better question would likely be "can you buy full pints in America", as if they only have one size then it's probably significantly smaller than a pint.
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@ben_lubar my eyes, they bleed
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@ben_lubar holy fuck the standard actually permits it.
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@ben_lubar You had a problem. You added threads. Now you wish you'd tried to use regular expressions to solve the problem instead.
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@ben_lubar said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
That's quite the platform-specific problem you have there.
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@dkf said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@ben_lubar You had a problem. You added threads. Now you wish you'd tried to use regular expressions to solve the problem instead.
Is there such as a thing as multi-threaded regular expression execution, and who would be mad enough to work on that?
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@Zecc I've got multithreaded regex, but that's merely multiple threads applying the same compiled regex to different data.
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@Zecc said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@dkf said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@ben_lubar You had a problem. You added threads. Now you wish you'd tried to use regular expressions to solve the problem instead.
Is there such as a thing as multi-threaded regular expression execution, and who would be mad enough to work on that?
Sounds like something that would be useful for the "match A B C where A+B=C" challenge I saw recently
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@ben_lubar said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
It's actually very funny watching the last line of a long chain of stdout messages throw an exception in Java, because the messages get interlaced with the stack trace the whole way down. Stderr must be faster to start or something.
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@pie_flavor said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
Stderr must be faster to start or something.
My understanding was that stderr is not buffered. stdout is.
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@dcon said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
@pie_flavor said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
Stderr must be faster to start or something.
My understanding was that stderr is not buffered. stdout is.
stdout is buffered in a weird way in C.
It depends whether stdout is a tty or not. That's why piping to cat actually affects things sometimes.
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@ben_lubar Well, there are three buffering options: block-buffered, line-buffered and unbuffered.
Stderr is defaults to unbuffered. Stdout defaults to line-buffered if it is a tty and block-buffered otherwise. So stderr always goes out faster, but depending on whether stdout is a tty is might be more or less faster.
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@Bulb said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
Stderr is defaults to unbuffered.
And that's a good thing, as it is used (among other things) to write diagnostic information at a point when the program is about to crash.
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Software developers are a timid bunch. It can take them a while to even get as far as holding hwnds.
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@pie_flavor said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!):
Software developers are a timid bunch. It can take them a while to even get as far as holding hwnds.
I confess it took me a while to get the handle of it.
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@pie_flavor
What matters is the end hresult.