This is so true tho
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And they’re all pedophiles or white supremists
Not every person is a cunt in this world you know.
Ronald and runk, not Donald
DuckTrump.Billionaires? Yes.
Ronald is just some unpaid Polish immigrant in US, very often.
Marketing>the reason for it
Is this a real example? Or are we just talking about linux here
Nebraska and 2003 have got to be fictional details, but there’s several small programs or libraries that have some kind of similar story.
You weren’t there for the Leftpad fiasco, I take it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
For the uninformed. It still somehow both boggles my mind and makes 100% sense that people didn’t just write this function when they needed something to pad strings.
Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because “that’s how.”
Huh… You know what that makes more sense than anything else I’ve come up with. I always just assumed it was lazy devs.
Something something Unix Philosophy. Write small programs that do one thing and do it well and then re-use that well tested code as often as you can rather than poorly re-implementing it over and over?
A huge proportion (most?) of server infrastructure runs on linux.
That’s what I meant. I phrased it badly, i meant to ask if it was about Linux or something else
It was leftpad. A stupid little function that was used by like 90% of the internet, and it crashed everything during a name dispute.
Awesome usage of the word “consequential.”
Oh yeah, I love Ronald Burkiworkowskini
It’s pronounced Brutananadilewski!
thanks Daniel Stenberg!
It’s more often not the “face” that’s the crux, it’s the geek. Make nice with the actual casters. 🖖🏼
Fabrice Bellard is ten Ronalds.
FFmpeg and QEMU? Holy shit!
I had no ideaand tcc, which while maybe not as ‘important’, is extremely cool.
Is QEMU simply a VM?
I would say so? It’s an emulator and I personally use it to manage KVM on Linux. Makes my life easier.
Not really sure about the precise details, sorry
It’s basically the best virtualization platform. It can do full system emulation across a number of platforms, or hardware assisted virtualization (using KVM). It’s incredibly useful for debug as well as doing real work.
Ah. He must be a KDE contributor as well.
Qrunk
Kontributor
You know, I was VERY tempted to write it that way, but decided against it at the last moment.
Seems you’re too reserved to ever become a konqueror.
Klearly you are not a KDE Kontributor.
Khx klreno kor kour kontribution!
handles all math on every machine on earth
That’s just gmp. The go-to unlimited precision arithmetic library.
Its almost like his name was Dennis Richie and its a shame a blow hard like Jobs died around the same time as him and overshadowed his passing and his legendary legacy.
On top of it all, Steve Jobs wasn’t even in tech. He was in sales.
The amount of businesses with things you just can’t touch for whatever reason is surprising.
The reliance on something made that is barely understood by the entire company makes me think that society will drag on generations after any kind of societal collapse.
Or more things will happen like the Bhopal disaster where a chemical plant, over a decade or so, laid off or failed to replace everyone who knew what their carefully designed multi-layered safety systems did. When those systems aged and needed maintenance, the remaining production people took them out one by one. Then 500,000 people were gassed with cyanide. 2,200 immediate deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
society will drag on generations after any kind of societal collapse.
Reminds me of the Imperium in Warhammer 40k how a lot of the tech they use is barely understood or some of it is not understood at all. Like the adeptus mechanicus believe in the Omnissiah (me too) and a lot of what they do is purely ritualistic.
But lots of those rituals are just stuff like turning something on in the right order. Or other mundane things that have become an arcane ritual after thousands of years that need doing for a thing to work right but nobody remembers why it needs to be done or how the thing works. Just that these are things you must do to please the machine spirits and make whatever random thing work right.
Honestly there is enough complexity in enough tech nowadays that I’m sure almost all of us are doing something similar in many areas of our life. Like I would struggle to explain how the Internet works or even how my television actually creates an image on itself. Maybe a better example would be cars, a lot of people use them but don’t know anything about necessary maintenance or basic principles of how they work.
You just explained the experience of anybody having to properly configure Apache for the first time.
Configure the right incantations and the machine god will serve your web pages, brother.
Social collapse isn’t an exciting day in your life, it’s a broad trend historians will puzzle over centuries later. Look at the bronze age collapse for an example.
Yeah, and things can putter on for hundreds of years before they really “collapse”
That sounds like a ‘crunch’ category risk
Some dude in the year 2345 will be shitposting about how we didn’t see it coming because we are dumb.
We did see it coming, but we are dumb
Dumb and selfish, but thats not solely human traits
Had to use 'runk", because 'runc" is already taken. :P
Here’s to all the Ronalds and Daniels out there.
Thanks.
:)
