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 💀

    • lseif@sopuli.xyz
      46·
      10 months ago

      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)

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Most of the code I write alone is full of jokes and puns that no one would ever get. But then when I go back to it much later, I smile and go “yep, I know exactly how I most have been looking at the system when I wrote this”

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
    102·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
    631·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • kubica@kbin.social
      40·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • sunbytes@lemmy.world
      151·
      10 months ago

      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).

    • Lev_Astov@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • mub@lemmy.ml
      68·
      10 months ago

      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.

        • DampCanary@lemmy.world
          221·
          10 months ago

          maybe because I don’t know how some command receives piped output?

          Also some commands don’t work with pipe, so kowing how pipe itsef is implemented is just a fraction of information.

    • Octopus1348@lemy.lolOP
      201·
      10 months ago

      Yes, but it’s funny. A better search would be “how to pipe cat output in bash”

    • thorbot@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      Bro you don’t have to pick apart every bit of a meme. Oh right it’s Lemmy that’s required

  • hank_and_deans@lemmy.ca
    32·
    10 months ago

    Here is an excerpt of the table of contents for the book “Linux Application Development”:

    • Process Primitives
      • Having Children
      • Watching Your Children Die
      • Running New Programs
      • A Bit of History: vfork()
      • Killing Yourself
      • Killing Others
      • Dumping Core
    • Simple Children
      • Running and Waiting with system()
      • Reading or Writing from a Process

    It’s actually quite a good book.

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    10 months ago

    you must wait for your children or you will accumulate zombies.

    surprisingly good parenting advice from the art of unix programming.

  • Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    10 months ago

    We were laughing at work because we use Psalm for PHP static analysis and one of the guys was getting bible quotes in the Google results