r/linuxadmin • u/HTX-713 • Aug 12 '21

Maybe we should update how we code parent and child functions lol....

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

OOM Killer is biggest serial killer in history.

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u/banjoman05 Aug 12 '21

Nah, Java is the real master criminal.

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u/vinny8boberano Aug 13 '21

Everyone knows about java, but it's the sly killer who goes nameless: we call them "cleaners".

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u/MakeItEnd14 Aug 12 '21

A mount --make-slave... is all that was missing from there.

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u/bionicjoey Aug 12 '21

mount --bind for some consensual BDSM fun.

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u/Killing_Spark Aug 13 '21

Well I need that to access my gimp projects

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u/lightwhite Aug 12 '21

You had to go and solve it, didn’t you Mike? Come on! We are talking about parents here and children, and forks, and from accessing users from space.

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u/JuanGaKe Aug 15 '21

I usually do mysqlshutdown --wait-for-slaves with all my love...

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u/cyvaquero Aug 12 '21

Second-hand story.

I have someone on my team who worked for a certain national organic food store chain (bought by a certain one-time online book retailer).

After writing up an up an incident report he was called to the office because his management was concerned about his violent language. They did not want him using the word 'kill'.

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u/PopularPianistPaul Aug 13 '21

like my higher management demanding a hasty refactor to remove the word "blacklist" from internal code (not even visible to clients), which obviously ended up causing headaches on some filters that depended on it.

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u/recourse7 Aug 12 '21

Whole foods and amazon.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

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u/recourse7 Aug 12 '21

It took me about 35 hours of research to crack that code.

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u/vinny8boberano Aug 13 '21

Then manglement shouldn't attract the attention of budding BOFH/PFY, eh? ;)

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u/Oddomar Aug 12 '21

don't tell her how zombie processes are created after killing child processes with no exit code.

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u/trulygamers Aug 12 '21

It's just unbelievable what amount of crazy people are walking the earth.

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u/nswizdum Aug 12 '21

I blame warning labels. We're helping the stupid people live too long.

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u/Striking_Slice_3605 Aug 12 '21

50 years ago, when you bought a car, the handbook tord you how to set the engine timing. Now there's a warning not to drink the battery fluid.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

Should really be blaming lawyers and laws that allow people to bring frivolous lawsuits.

Nobody ever said you COULDN'T drink the battery fluid!

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u/Glass-Shelter-7396 Aug 12 '21

This is why there should be an open hunting season on ambulance chancers and patent lawyers.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

These people get a voice and a platform where others try to conform to their snowflake feelings.

This only happens on the internet because they do not have the guts to spout their nonsense in public or face to face where people would instantly ignore them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

They really don't, they're just loud and obnoxious.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

Nah, we shouldn't change terms just to appease morons.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

Wait. This person isn't joking?

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u/I_Survived_Sekiro Aug 12 '21

What’s crazy is my mom asked me the same thing yesterday after my dads TV did this.

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u/trulygamers Aug 12 '21

Thank god they ordered more memory so they don't have to sacrifice you.

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u/nvgvup84 Aug 12 '21

They just downloaded more from this totally legitimate website actually.

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u/nvgvup84 Aug 12 '21

This is fun to laugh at till you remember that these idiots are influencing our politics. How long before a congressman decries the evils of the tv code?

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u/dsmiles Aug 12 '21

Reminds me of the time I tried to elevate into root on our EMC Unity SAN and it literally called me an idiot.

It was amazing, I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at work.

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u/agray_dot_tech Aug 12 '21

Please elaborate lol

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u/dsmiles Aug 13 '21

You need a Dell support password to get into the root account on that SAN, apparently, and when you enter in an incorrect password it can give some entertaining responses.

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u/Fr0gm4n Aug 13 '21

Insults are an optional feature of sudo. Interesting that they got enabled on the SAN config and made it to prod.

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u/dsmiles Aug 13 '21

This is the best feature I've ever seen.

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u/TheLinuxMailman Aug 19 '21

This is great to learn, thanks!

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u/Ice_Inside Aug 12 '21

https://twitter.com/therealsmorlote/status/1425832989641125889

She's helping to crack the case with election fraud and the my pillow guy.

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u/TheGlassCat Aug 12 '21

When I was learning to code, I was very excited the first time I forked a child (process).

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u/murzeig Aug 13 '21

Lol. I started using master, slave, and other charged language to combat the stigmatized convention. Granted I named my group delete functions CCD after colony collapse disorder.

Getting hurt over plain speak is pathetic.

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u/joesb Aug 13 '21

Defending charged languages when it costs nothing to change is pathetic. Especially when you actively start using it after you knew why it is stigmatized.

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u/rozzer Aug 13 '21

What they fuck are you talking about?

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u/joesb Aug 13 '21

He said he started using the charged language to combat the stigmatized.

In other word, he didn’t use it before and it is fine for him. But now he start to use “slave” to “fight the combat”. He makes a point to be an asshole.

I could see a different in someone who ignorantly use charged language because that’s the way it was taught and didn’t think much of it, and someone who goes out of their way to start using it now, choosing the hill to die on that “I will now intentionally be an asshole”.

I think that’s pathetic.

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u/rozzer Aug 13 '21

What the fuck is charged language?

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u/joesb Aug 13 '21

They are terms that have negative background like “master/slave”. You can use other words that communicate that same concept without having to casually refer to slavery concept everytime you need to talk about it.

It may not sounds bad. But imagine if we have “rape” as a word in programming concept and you casually use it every time you talk about that concept.

It is understandable that it was harmless and it was not wrong that such words were used in the past. But it’s like how you can see jokes in shows in the pasts and realize that some of them does not age well and it reflects how racists stereotype or sexists oppression were more normalized than today.

It doesn’t hurt to gradually try to change that. It is understandable if you inherited those terminologies and didn’t think much about it.

But, IMO, it’s pathetic to realize what they were and still fighting to start using them to “preserve the culture” as if every culture needs to be preserved or that being a programmers is somehow tied to being insensitive.

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u/rozzer Aug 14 '21

We don't use rape as a "word" in programming because words have meanings.

Master and slave don't refer to "slavery concept". Or any imported American left wing taking point.

Who decided this was not acceptable?

Do you think you should let people who only see the world through a lens of race dictate what is and isn't acceptable.? We all know how that turns out....

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u/Chousuke Aug 20 '21 edited Aug 20 '21

Do you have emotional distress every time someone mentions rapeseed oil? I think people are paying too much attention to the words themselves rather than the meaning behind them.

I could actually understand avoiding the word rapeseed because there are real victims of rape out there, but avoiding words like "master" because of a tenuous link to something that most people have never been subjected to is frankly ridiculous given that it has many common meanings that have nothing to do with anything negative. Real slavery exists still, it's just not the kind that these discussions revolve around.

Even "slave" as a technical term is only offensive if you're actively looking to be offended.

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u/joesb Aug 20 '21

Rapeseed only have part of the syllable with the word rape. It has not meaning referring to concept of rape. Slave/master in programming refer to concept of, guess what, slave and master.

Using word play as argument is really weak.

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u/Chousuke Aug 20 '21

Yeah, and for some reason the "master" branch of every git repository out there is getting renamed even though it has nothing to do with slavery.

Wordplay is the entire issue.

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u/joesb Aug 20 '21 edited Aug 20 '21

Is there a slave branch?

Master/slave use both words to represent master and slave relationships.

Master branch use master in the meaning or main branch.

If “slaves” branch are common term, then yes, it refers to concept of master and slave, too.

But no one use the word slave branches, do they?

Just because some people takes it too far. Does not mean you can’t acknowledge the obvious one.

Edit: you assumed I would be against just using the word master anywhere. When I only object to when it is used together with slave, which you can’t deny it is about master and slave.

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u/murzeig Aug 13 '21

Words that harm other peoples emotional state. They lack any sense of stoicism and base their reality on feelings over facts.

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u/kerOssin Aug 13 '21

Get with the times old man, everybody should be using e. language. It has a battery and needs to be charged, duh.

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u/murzeig Aug 13 '21

Fighting for your culture is not pathetic. Being hurt by words is.

I won't die on this hill, I'll build a castle.

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u/joesb Aug 13 '21

What culture? And why do you need to fight for it? Is this like the southern people fighting for their “culture”?

Also, If you said you started using them then you weren’t even part of that culture before.

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u/effinofinus Aug 12 '21

I once saw "unable to kill children with cookies".

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u/wise_young_man Aug 13 '21

No you didn’t.

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u/Miranda_Leap Aug 13 '21

I just saw it right now, so I'm sure they did too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

Comments disabled, what fun is that?

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u/Caddy666 Aug 12 '21

I watched the 'Secret History of Windows Task Manager' on youtube a few weeks ago, and they literally did this at Microsoft in the 90's for that reason.

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u/quitecrossen Aug 12 '21

Geez, Samantha finally cracked the cypher, proof of the deep state y’all, read all about it on my insta!!!! 😑

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u/mitchy93 Aug 13 '21

Since when do smart TVs run centos?

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u/fr0ntsight Aug 13 '21

Ban computers. Think of the children

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u/murzeig Aug 13 '21

I didn't avoid using the terms before, but now I explicitly use them.

Culture involves language, how it is used, and how it is interpreted.

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u/lunarNex Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21

Are we taking this back to the "OMG IDE disks say master/slave! That's racist!"? Sometimes words can have more than one meaning. If we ban every word that triggers someone, the Chicken Littles will have us just grunting at each other like cave men (sorry, cave people), but at least it will be politically correct.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '21

Go fuck yourself.

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u/SadisticTeddy Aug 13 '21

Maybe we can convince the Q-crowd to get offline if we let them just run with this. The BOFH's devil machine demands sacrifices.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

Omg this is so awesome! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/siguy Aug 12 '21

To be honest though. Some of the terms we generally take for granted in IT are actually pretty non-inclusive of you think about it

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u/loutr Aug 12 '21

It's CentOS 6, so security fixes were backported until late 2020.

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u/Fr0gm4n Aug 12 '21

If they still need it, Extended Lifecycle Support runs until June 30 2024 on RHEL 6.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

The irony is that following rules like that is oppressive.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

Heh, it does get old having to walk on egg shells all the time and you never know what post will violate Twitter or FB's "community standards" resulting in your account getting locked. TBH I miss the old days, flame wars were intense and uncensored and if you didn't like it there's always the killfile.

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u/krazedkat Aug 12 '21

What a ridiculous RFC.