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[–] 88 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

I mentioned this last time this was posted, but linux only has around 20 million lines of code. It's funny how people always seem to overestimate the size.

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  • [–] 53 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    300 trillion lines you say!?!?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    SMH with some serious management we could double that number of lines in mere months.

    (Do I have to put the / ?)

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  • [+] -6 points 4 weeks ago*

    SMH with some serious management we could double that number of lines in mere months.

    But why? "Bigger is better" is realy just bullshit here. If the code has a good quality, going for quantity just for the sake of it is just plane stupid.

    (Do I have to put the / ?)

    On Lemmy? Hell yes.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (1 child)

    You seem to underestimate how much 20 million loc is.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    The difference in size between billions and 20 million is actually about the same order of magnitude as the difference between linux and my largest personal project (~100x).

    Of course, "only 20 million lines" is a ridiculous statement taken out of context.

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  • [–] 222 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    The guy's name is Linus and he reverse-engineered Linux? Who wrote this shit, Kojima?

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  • [–] 69 points 4 weeks ago

    This joke will always be relevant.

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  • [–] 55 points 4 weeks ago

    oh man thats crazy! Hope no one leaks git's source code next

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  • [–] 43 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    β€œpaid partnership” fuck yeah

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  • [–] 85 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    If your app becomes vulnerable because the source code leaked, your app was always vulnerable.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Security by obscurity isn't reliable protection.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    He's even rumoured to have recently started to use AI to assist in his project...!

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  • [–] 43 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

    Wild thing is some total moron will read that and be like "phew thank god I run windows!”

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  • [–] 22 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

    "See? I told you this lunix (sic) is dangerous!"

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    This wasn't a real ad, now was it? and do I want to know the answer to this?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    I was there when it hit the net. Supposedly, it was real, but only ran in Germany.

    I retrieved the copy from http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/microsoft_linux_ad.html, but I can attest that it at least existed around 2000.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Lovely :) But ok. It was win-server vs linux. At this time must've been WIN-NT or 2003. Both actually way better than their consumer OS.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    NT4 was solid operationally. Stability was close enough. NT4's Deskop manager was more professional but rather inflexible.

    Apache in Linux was superior to NT4+IIS in every way.

    NT4 could run Exchange which was generally better than unix mail.

    Most of the reason we ran Windows servers was because we knew Windows. The whole compile your stuff and stay on top of deps was beyond normal for the time.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 weeks ago*

    what the heck the whole kernel, really?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    It has already been forked more than 60K times, there is no way linux can recover from this.

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    Create an operating system. Write code. Do not make any mistakes. Don't hallucinate

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago

    This joke is always funny.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Maybe it's just me but that site is atrocious to navigate on mobile, text and pictures didn't load until it's like half way on the page and the text does some weird animation effect when scrolling. Very distracting and difficult to skim

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Soon enough there will be a fully decompiled Windows 11

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago*

    Scientists who looked at the code are TERRIFIED!!!

    Be sure to click LIKE and SUBSCRIBE!

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    Now imagine someone who would believe this is for real.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    You all laugh but I know people this dumb.

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  • [+] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] -3 points 4 weeks ago

    Oh no, anyway

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