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[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember: before killing yourself, it's your responsibility to kill your children.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

And delete all the memories you had during that

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days ago

If you fork, you're gonna have children. Those children will slowly eat up your memory. It's time to hang them up. Shut their pipes. Sometimes they refuse to die, like cats. Control Cat won't work. That's where you want to kill them 9 times.

[–] clb92 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Simple Children

I don't think that's the preferred nomenclature anymore.

What are we up to now? Differently intellected youth? Synaptically challeneged? Or can we wrap back around to stupid kids?

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Worst thing about having parents, they die.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

only if you do it right. lol

also sometimes the best

[–] Master167@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

This is why I get flagged by the FBI as a troubled individual.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago
[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I don't know why but "dumping core" was a really funny way for this to end

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Dumping core

I love the constant Star Trek references on Lemmy.

Also that the proper procedure is to first kill oneself & then others. So many get that wrong.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Actually, you have to kill your children before yourself.

They become zombie processes if you kill yourself while they're still alive.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 days ago

Yes, ofc, you need mana first, that's why you procured children with unique PIDs.

[–] mynamewastakenagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Core dump in computing predates star trek - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump

The source, in case anyone is wondering.

https://www.danlj.org/mkj/lad/contents.html