A bit like when we renamed all the master/slave terminology using different phrasing that’s frankly more useful a lot of the time, I think it’s about time we got rid of this “child” task nonsense. I suggest “subtask”. Then we can reword these books into something that no-one can make stupid jokes about any more, like “how to keep your subs in line” and “how to punish your subs when they’ve misbehaved”.
I don’t think changing a profession’s terms to “prevent stupid jokes” isn’t a smart move.
Whoosh?
“How to enter subspace” “How to bind subs”
“how to kill orphaned children in Java”
what do you mean Java is also the name of an island
Java (pronounced jay-va) is also the name of a town near me in Western NY.
You should tell them that this pronunciation sucks.
Wait until you hear there’s a town in NY named Gotham–pronounced GOthum.
Wait until you hear of a little state called Arkansas.
I’d like more pixels please. Literally can’t read it…
I could make out a line that says div element contained inline span child, forcing all children to be wrapped in a block.
Don’t forget automatically killing orphans
Before killing yourself, it’s your responsibility to kill your children
…and people worry about the name of a git branch.
Garbage collection is such an evil thing…
Dont ignore ‘Simple Children’
Playground zone signs where I live often read “slow children playing”. It’s supposed to be “slow (children playing)” but I always get a kick out of reading it as “(slow children) playing”.
Dumping core FTW
Dumping core
Oh, thats why captains in Star Trek do it every even remotely excusable change they get.
(“Why did we dump the core & why did it detonate??” - “I wanted to see if I can brew coffee in the vacuum of space.”)At some I added logging to a thread pool, when it gave up on child-threads, it would be logging things like
“Child 123 is being aborted”
Not the best of phrasing for people that didn’t know what that was about…
Is this the one from [ https://os-book.com ]?!
Dumping Core
When your entire identity is about pooping.
Isn’t yours?
Could we please let this 30+ year old joke just die?
No die, is funni
Nah, we gotta
kill, preferably with-9. 🤣You know I’ve known for decades that -9 is basically “nuke it from orbit”, but does anyone know what the “9” actually means or where it came from?
It’s the number of the signal sent,
9is forSIGKILL. You can send various signals with kill, and depending on how application was made it may react on all signals with dying, or meaningfully process most of them. Afaik,SIGKILLcan’t be processed by the app, and it always means just that: “die already”.Checked in Wikipedia, that’s about right but there are more details I left out, mostly because didn’t know about them, too: POSIX signals
I actually got flagged on reddit for a joke comment I made with a 3 liner code block that had something like
thread.kill()It thought I was promoting violence lol
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