You don’t kill zombies; a zombie is already dead. You wait for or reap zombies. (A zombie process is just a process table entry with its exit status; it goes away once the parent process has read that exit status.)
No relation to the sports channel.
You don’t kill zombies; a zombie is already dead. You wait for or reap zombies. (A zombie process is just a process table entry with its exit status; it goes away once the parent process has read that exit status.)
Show me what Stalinism looks like
This is what Stalinism looks like
C++ programmers always let their friends access their private members, so …
The Tesla Rusty Triangle, the vehicle for your high-iron, low-poly lifestyle.
When I was in middle school around 1990, my family lived in military base housing, and there was a “teen center”. It had a TV, stereo system, some arcade games¹, and a snack bar. It hosted dances on weekends; with one night designated for the middle-school crowd and one for the high-school crowd.
¹ “Red wizard shot the food!”
If you can’t tar to a pipe into ssh to a remote host and untar into an arbitrary location there, are you really using Unix?
I’m reminded of the character names that show up in MIT CS textbooks, like Alyssa P. Hacker (“a Lisp hacker”) and Eva Lu Ator.
If someone sells something to you and then takes it back later, that is theft.
I hear he lets all his friends access his private members.
One of these, “free credit report”, is additionally full of scams. Here’s the FTC on the issue.
They don’t index Wikipedia. Why not?
Create a new community. Host your own instance.
Just be sure to pause for garbage collection occasionally.
I’m pointing at the architecture, not the specific implementation. Build something like Spanner, not something like a blockchain.
1a. I must have misunderstood the problem report.
1b. No wait, holy shit, how did this ever work!?
2a. The director reminded us, at the last all-hands, that we should escalate to senior members of the team if we don’t know how to check our work.
2b. … yeah, they’re at Burning Man.
3a. Remember, they knew I didn’t have a CS degree when they hired me. Dammit Jim, I’m a chemist, not a compiler engineer.
4a. It could be worse. I could be back in academia.
5a. There are more cute people in academia.
6a. HOW THE FUCK DID THE THREE-HOUR COMMIT QUEUE NOT CATCH THIS BUG BEFORE IT WAS PUSHED ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON?
6b. (looks up author of broken commit) Oh, we need to send more whiskey to that team on Friday mornings. That’d shut them up.
7a. … yeah no, imma run the regression tests another time against an unchanged repo
7b. … resync and run them again
7c. … fuck, this is fucking voodoo but imma do it anyway WHY DID IT BREAK NOW
8a. Wow, fixing that took, um, four actual bytes of delta?
8b. Everyone should slow the fuck down and see if they can fix all their bugs in four actual fucking characters of change to the actual fucking source code.
8c. What the fuck do I know. Megan committed 924 LOC last week that fixed lfile caching, and caught the btqmixer bug.
9a. Sleeeeeeeep.
“Groot” is also the Dutch cognate to the English word “great”.
There are plenty of Dutch words and names that are close enough to English to sound really funny to English-speakers. Like, Vroom is a real Dutch surname, but to American kids that’s the sound a cool car makes.
(In one of the Baroque Cycle books, Neal Stephenson needed a name for a Dutch shipwright who built really fast sailing ships. Who else could it be but Jan Vroom?)
Curiously enough, Marvel Groot is first, having appeared in 1960, while the Moorcock novel is from 1981.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Hound_and_the_World's_Pain
Once you learn about parser combinators, all other parsing looks pretty dopey.