The Four Stages Of Debugging Grief

Content - ballbase 72 points 1 day ago What does sacrifice child mean in this context? permalink source embed save save-RES report give award reply hide child comments -J Schnickatavick 234 points 1 day ago (last edited 1 day ago) I don't know the term "sacrifice", but generally killing a child means that a parent process needs to terminate a secondary (child) process that it started. I would assume based on context that a sacrifice is just ending a child process to save memory? Regardless, threading has some of the most messed up terminology for seemingly no reason. It's the only place where "killing orphans" or "zombie children" are normal terms permalink source embed save save-Res parent report give award reply hide child comments - TechCubeTetrabyte us 61 points 1 day ago Zombie children? Like, unaccounted for by the OS? permalink source embed save save-RES parent report give award reply hide child comments - Schnickatavick 128 points 1 day ago - It's a child process that finished its task and closed, but the parent process hasn't acknowledged it yet. It leaves it in this awkward state where it's terminated (dead) but it still has to hang around in memory (like a zombie) until the parent process can receive the child's "return" values, which let's the OS wipe it from memory, which is called reaping. Which is another messed up term, the OS is literally a "reaper" for dead processes? Who named this stuff? permalink source embed save saveRES parent report give award reply hide child comments - TerrorBite 55 points 1 day ago - The child itself has already died or been killed at that point; what isn't released yet is the child's entry in the PID table, as the return code (which the parent needs to read) needs to be stored somewhere. So the only thing the zombie process is taking up at that point, is a PID number and a few kB at most of metadata in the kernel. You can't kill a zombie process, because it's already dead. The only way to get rid of it is to kill the lazy parent; the zombie will then be re-parented to init, which will clean it up immediately. Dermalink source embed unsave parent report give award reply hide child comments - Schnickatavick 69 points 1 day ago The only way to get rid of it is to kill the lazy parent The child itself has already died or been killed the zombie will then be re-parented See! What's with this phrasing?! But yeah, that's exactly right Dermalink source embed unsave parent report oive award rediv nice child comments

Junior: "Where's documentation?" Senior: "I AM THE DOCUMENTATION!" The final boss of every legacy codebase isn't the complexity—it's the grizzled veteran who wrote it all and never bothered documenting a single line. Why write comments when you can just be summoned like some mythical creature whenever something breaks? Nothing says job security like being the human equivalent of a 600-page technical manual that nobody wants to read.

SWEET MOTHER OF UNDEFINED VARIABLES! Is that a cake labeled "NaN"?! The HORROR! When your dessert encounters the same existential crisis as your JavaScript code! That cake isn't just not a number—it's a full-blown identity crisis wrapped in white chocolate! Somewhere, a programmer is having heart palpitations looking at this bakery display. The cake exists and doesn't exist simultaneously—it's Schrödinger's Dessert! And you thought debugging was hard? Try eating something that JavaScript doesn't even recognize as a valid quantity! Bon appétit...if you can figure out how many slices that is!

Oh how the mighty have fallen! Remember when being told your code looks "machine-generated" was a compliment? Now we've come full circle where both human-written AND AI-generated code get thrown in the same dumpster fire. The ultimate burn isn't comparing your code to a rookie's anymore—it's saying it has that distinct "I asked ChatGPT at 2AM and didn't review it" energy. The real tragedy? The garbage collector can't save either one.

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The painful truth nobody warns you about in bootcamp! You dream of crafting elegant algorithms and building the next revolutionary app, but reality hits you with 8 hours of meetings, documentation, and explaining to project managers why adding that "small feature" would require rewriting the entire codebase. Meanwhile, your actual coding time has been reduced to those precious 15 minutes between the "quick sync" and the "end-of-day check-in." The modern developer: part therapist for legacy code, part translator between business and technology, and occasionally—if the stars align—allowed to write a few lines of code.