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I don’t want to brag, but I have like 5 Linux distros in my garage. And I drive them all, regularly.

Just add // @TODO find out why this crashes our application sometimes to fix that issue

The G in GNU stands for JPEG.

The W in Windows stands for worse, so good for you.

JavaScript: Hold my Date!

new Date().getYear() == 125

Thanks, I didn’t know that. And now I wish I could forget it again.

Thanks, I didn’t know that. And now I wish I could forget it again.

“Tru dat\!”

That’s why you shouldn’t use cmd or powershell. That and the fact that you’d have to install W*nd*ws in order to use them.

Edit: Too bad that all the downvoters didn’t leave a comment. Now I’ll never know if it was M*cr*s*ft employees on their anual works outing, or if you’re mad because I dared to use the W-word :D

I don’t know how NTFS does it, but on FAT filesystems the directory table contains the filename along with all the other file metadata (access rights, creation date, size, etc). Only the list of sectors containing the actual data is separate. That means that you can’t have two filenames for the same file on FAT filesystems.

If you want to learn more about this, the data structure UNIX filesystems use, and FAT filesystems lack is called inode.

Yes. On Linux/Unix you don’t delete the file, you just delete it’s name, which is merely a link to the actual file. That’s also the reason why the syscalls name is actually unlink and not delete. As soon as there’s nothing pointing to a file anymore, it is deleted.

As long as a process holds a file handle, there’s still a reference to said file, so it won’t be deleted. That saved me once, when I accidentally deleted a file I wanted to keep: As there still was some process keeping it alive, I could just go to /proc/[process id]/fd/[file descriptor id] and copy it to a safe location.

Why can „Bank“ be a 🏦 or a 🛋️? It’s a common feature of many languages that words can have multiple meanings. It’s called Teekesselchen in German, which is funny because Teekesselchen is a Teekesselchen itself: It can either mean „small tea kettle“ or „word with more than one meaning“.

But more importantly, why is there no emoticon for bench? I had to use a couch instead.

Hey, you can’t end a 40+ year war just like that. Do you want all those warriors to loose their occupation?

Why not use

ꟻbq.משתמשים/אדם/מסמכים/מחקר/מאמר/:ↄ

instead? If you want to write from right to left, you should go all the way.

With the right shell, you can just press tab multiple times to cycle through the possible completions.

If Algol68 is from 1968, shouldn’t Modula-2 be from 1898?

Yeah, it’s simple: In Command mode you press :!google-chrome https://openstreetmap.org/ <Return>.

Back in the good old days I used to play kmem-roulette: Write a random value into a random address of /proc/kmem until the system crashed. That was much more fun, as on the way there was also the possibility that the kernel might just start wreaking havoc in some random files. No wonder they removed the kmem file in the end.

It’s really great how docker shifted the problem from “works on my machine” to “works with my version of docker”.

cp is short for create packup