What is this, a crossover episode?

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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Did they finally merge the En Passant fork into the master branch? Been waiting to update my board to the latest version.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago*

    bro hasn't updated his dependencies since the 16th century. You're cooked, I bet you haven't even read the man page for Ruy Lopez.

    EDIT: People these days are trying to get the 960 branch to be seen as legit, but struggling.

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  • [+] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nope, we call it master. The hand-wringing over the name was and still is absolutely asinine.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    In case you (the reader, not expr@programming.dev who I'm sure is old enough :P) were born after 9/11:

    I understand WHY it's named this way, from a technology point of view. The first drive on the IDE cable is the only one that uses its controller. The other drives disable their own controller and blindly follow the Master drive.

    Engineering calls these kind of relationships Master/Slave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_(technology)

    That being said, when I was learning this in the 90s it was seen as a problematic phrase... but it was the terminology of the field so you had to learn/use it.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Add a third group: toddlers

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't even know which Linux specific fork you are referring to, it could be either a git fork or fork(2).

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  • Also getting weirdly excited by forks:
    My missus in a charity shop (US: Thrift store?) or antique shop

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Yo dawg, I heard you like forks, so I put a fork in yo fork:

    :() { :|:& };:
    
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    [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I almost exclusively role my eyes when I see a new fork, the whole problem with Linux (distros) is fragmentation among the developer base they literally cannibalized themselves and honestly a new distro is not worth eating human flesh.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It’s the problem, but also the strength. That fragmentation allows room to experiment.

    It also puts pressure on the underlying protocols/specs to be air-tight. If you have just one implementation to support, you can do whatever. If you have to support 15, all with different goals and constraints, you gotta be pretty damn careful.

    So in the end, we get foundational systems that are able to evolve over time instead of needing a breaking-change, ground-up rewrite every 2 years.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)