Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)
The lost meme in question was like this: A post on r/notinteresting saying "I don't know anything about programming, ask me anything." A comment asked "How to kill the child process?" Then replied to himself: Who reported me π
how to automatically kill orphans.
i actually have a script that kills all unattached tmux sessions, named kill-orphans, because its funny (even if the name may be technically wrong idk)
I Googled man touch once
What happened afterwards? Did you go off on a self searching quest and come to learn the real you?
I learned that my employer did not filter or monitor network traffic.
What about man mount?
In Czech we have a joke /dev/ka
DΔvka means hooker in Czech.
I had some friends/colleagues from Slovakia and I quickly realized that it's extremely important to mainly utilize curse words while debugging.
I tried to find a manual page for special permissions (s-perm) as wellβ¦
The ads Google must have personalised for you based on that would have been interesting. But everyone on Lemmy uses ad blockers so you prolly wouldn't even have noticed xD
Not as good as the month I kept getting thicc girl underwear ads
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For my FBI agents, I always add "linux" or the programming language name to the start. Except for "Go", which I still search as "golang".
As an aside, fuck everyone that names things without thinking about the search results. "R" is especially terrible. "Go" is saved by "golang". "Python" with programming. "R" is not saved by anything.
Google's become shitty enough that it barely matters. "We didn't find many results for the thing you typed, so here's something else."
I've googled exact phrases I know took me to the results I was looking for just a few years ago and gotten exactly nothing.
It's just so sad to see the business majors win yet another front in their war against humanity. At least Google Scholar still works. For now.
Is it actually Google, or the vile SEO scum or both?
Vile SEO scum aren't why "open watcom" returns "did you mean: wacom tablets?"
Yes, you're right - I forgot about all the fuzzy logic they've incorporated!
Fuzzy is not the first f-word I'd choose.
Moldy?
Show me that dictionary.
Same.
And C really should have predicted this problem :P
Rlang
And you haven't even mentioned Master and Slave
not Cable Select
"Leaders and Followers"
Googling and binging programming stuff really shows how much the instant answers, AI stuff and other "optimizatioms" have degraded search results. Every time I have to skip all that bullshit on the top to the actual results. Often, I even have to switch on verbatim mode. And even then it says "There don't appear to be a lot of good results..." or whatever, but the good result is right there, after I had to dance around all their hoops.
The search giants just don't understand that often there is just one good source for an information and it doesn't get repeated all the time, because it perfectly explains it, is brand new or just not something the kids on youtube or reddit would enjoy. They think people want to find things the web is plastered with. So weird.
The other day I was reading an highlighted result at the top of the page.
The highlight was something like "Use this."
But reading the full text the meaning was totally different, it was sort of... If you don't mind not having [thing I was searching] use this.
It's almost always the same feeling with anything AI related for me.
I'm trying out a paid Google called Kagi for a month.
It's pretty good so far and very fast.
And no ads or SEO prioritisation, which is the key part.
Or tracking/data-retention, so they say (it's not open source so we only have their word for it).
Speaking of degrading search results, people have begun phrasing questions like they would search queries so much that now when you search "how to X" it seems more likely to find a person posting a question worded "how to X" than it is to find actual answers.
Yeah. This is why I just search 'x documentation' and just go from there
How to bash cat with pipe? It doesn't make sense
When you Google a technical thing you could use the whole sentence like "in a bash session how would you pipe the output from cat to something else?" But that is long winded and can be constraining for the search engine so you boil it down to just the essential words". Start with "how to" then add "bash Cat pipe", and insert "with" because that is the desired adjective.
I've just woken up and I'm wondering if I missed an implied /s. Anyway.
Yes, but it's funny. A better search would be "how to pipe cat output in bash"
Bro you donβt have to pick apart every bit of a meme. Oh right itβs Lemmy thatβs required
Here is an excerpt of the table of contents for the book "Linux Application Development":
It's actually quite a good book.
Terminate all running children
They're getting away
Similar for looking up how to play Crusader Kings.
Parse error at comma splice.
