When The Bug Is So Bizarre, You Can't Even Explain It To Google Or GPT

Writing documentation is such a heroic act that you need medical attention afterward. That single sentence probably took 4 hours, 3 existential crises, and the sacrifice of whatever will to live you had left. The worst part? Your colleagues will still ask "but what does this function actually do?" next week. Documentation: the only task where doing 1% feels like running a marathon.

Ah, the classic "// TODO: remove when no longer needed" followed by a roof built around a ladder instead of removing it. This is peak developer energy! Just like that temporary fix from 2016 that's now somehow a critical part of your production infrastructure. The comment might as well say "// TODO: remove when hell freezes over" because we all know that ladder is staying there until the building collapses. Technical debt with physical manifestation!

Content QA telling me the environment they found the issue in QA including the air temperature in the room when they found the bug

The perfect karma loop: we write garbage code, feed it to AI, then act shocked when AI spits garbage back at us. It's like teaching a parrot all your worst swear words and then being offended when it curses at your in-laws. The AI didn't invent bad code—it just holds up a mirror to our collective coding sins. Next time you're cursing at GitHub Copilot's suggestions, remember: that monstrosity is built on the foundation of your stackoverflow copy-paste crimes.

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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