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More Like Anticlimactic

More Like Anticlimactic
The eternal cycle of developer disappointment! Every time someone announces they've created a "revolutionary new IDE," it's inevitably just another VS Code fork with a different color theme and three extra plugins bundled in. The dev world is littered with the corpses of "game-changing" editors that were basically just Microsoft's editor wearing a fake mustache. Next time someone tells you they've reinvented coding, just save yourself the time and assume they've slapped their logo on Electron and called it innovation.

Stop Doing Operating Systems

Stop Doing Operating Systems
Content STOP DOING OS • CPUS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE SHARED! • YEARS OF SCHEDULERS yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for running more than one task at a time! • Wanted to terminate a process? We had a tool for that. It was called manual restart. • "Please give me 30 bytes of virtual memory. Please allocate it on the heap. ' - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards. LOOK at what kernel developers have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the memory and CPUS we built for them. (This is REAL KERNEL CODE, done by REAL KERNEL DEVS): prev_state = READ_ONCE(prev->__state); if (sched mode == SM IDLE) { * This is how we return from a fork. * SCX must consult the BPF scheduler to if (Irq->nr_running 88 !scx_enabled()) { i SYM_CODE_START(ret_from_fork) next = prev; bl schedule_tail goto picked; cbz x19, 1f MOV x0, x20 } else if (! preempt 8& prev_state) { try_to_block_task(rq, prev, prev_state); switch_count = &prev->nvcsw; blr X19 1: get_current_task tsk MoV X0, sp } bl asm_exit_to_user_mode ret_to_user next = pick_next_task(rq, prev, &rf); rq_set_donor(rq, next); SYM_CODE_END(ret_from_fork) NOKPROBE(ret_from_fork) STOCALE UEFANEX drag pushO: __diag_ignore(GCC, 8, "-Wattribute-alias", dancinkage cong sysomndnes Marta, aC vecc, VA AKUS_/ attribute (altas( stringity( se systanane)))); ONGsystanane, ERRNO); _do_systinare(__MAP(X,__SC_DECL,_VA_ARGS_ _se_sysmenare(__MAP(X,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__)): se sysauname MAP(X, SC LONG,VA ARGS_)) do sussunare MAP(X. SC CAST, VA ARGS. _MAP(X, __SC_TEST,__VA_ARGS_ -PROTECT(x, ret,__MAP(X, __SC_ARGS, _VA_ARGS__)): 10000 94 static inline long SYSCALL DESTEX - do systanare (_MaP(X, _ SC_DECL, _ VA ARGS_ ????? ?????? ??????????? Hello I would like to a process please. They have played us for absolute fools.

OS Internals Books Are Wild

OS Internals Books Are Wild
When computer science textbooks accidentally sound like a serial killer's handbook. Operating system processes have the most disturbing lifecycle imaginable—from "Having Children" (fork) to "Watching Your Children Die" (wait) to "Killing Yourself" (exit). The cold, technical language of OS internals makes it sound like you're learning how to run a digital death cult rather than manage system resources. And "Dumping Core"? That's just what happens after your program has a catastrophic failure—like a digital autopsy report. No wonder programmers have a dark sense of humor. We spend our days creating children only to watch them die.

OS Internals Books Are Wild

OS Internals Books Are Wild
Nothing says "welcome to systems programming" quite like a table of contents that reads like a horror novel. When your textbook casually transitions from "Having Children" (spawning processes) to "Watching Your Children Die" (process termination) to "Killing Yourself" (self-termination), you know you're in for a traumatic coding experience. And they wonder why sysadmins develop thousand-yard stares. Just another day managing processes in the OS underworld, where "Dumping Core" isn't about fitness but about catastrophic failure.

OS Internals Books Are Wild

OS Internals Books Are Wild
THE HORROR! THE ABSOLUTE SAVAGERY of operating system documentation! 😱 In the twisted world of process management, your innocent little child processes aren't safe from the cold-blooded MURDER functions built right into the system! One minute you're happily forking children, the next you're watching them die or straight-up EXECUTING them yourself! And they have the AUDACITY to document it all so casually between "Having Children" and "Running New Programs" like we're talking about a Sunday picnic instead of DIGITAL INFANTICIDE! The emotional rollercoaster from section 9.4.1 to 9.4.2 is just BRUTAL! Whoever wrote this table of contents deserves both a promotion and therapy!

Got My First Fork Time To Retire So Long Suckers

Got My First Fork Time To Retire So Long Suckers
Every open-source developer the moment someone forks their repo with zero stars. "That's it, I've made it! Someone actually thought my code was worth copying! Time to update the LinkedIn profile to 'Influential Developer' and start charging for consultation." Meanwhile, it was probably just some poor soul who clicked the wrong button or forked it to fix that one glaring typo in the README.

OS Internals Books Are Wild

OS Internals Books Are Wild
Ah, the joys of operating system documentation, where perfectly innocent process management terminology sounds like instructions for a serial killer. In Unix/Linux, "child processes" are just programs spawned by parent processes, and "killing" them is simply terminating them with commands like kill -9 . Nothing says "experienced developer" like casually telling your coworker you're "killing orphaned children" and "dumping core" while the new intern slowly backs away in horror. This is why programmers shouldn't write their own employee handbooks.

Fork Children, Kill Processes

Fork Children, Kill Processes
The classic Unix terminology strikes again! In operating systems like Linux, fork() creates a child process and kill terminates a process. So when programmers casually discuss "killing child processes" or "forking children," it sounds completely normal to us but absolutely horrifying to everyone else. It's the perfect example of why programmers should never discuss work at dinner parties unless they want to end up on some kind of watchlist.

Fork Bomb

Fork Bomb
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Fox News Tries To Explain GitHub

Fox News Tries To Explain GitHub
Ah yes, the famous "GitHub Dictionary" where repositories are just "big chunks of code" and forking is "the term for code editing." And my personal favorite: a pull request is apparently an "e-note" asking for "edit rights." It's like watching your grandparents try to explain what you do for a living after you mentioned it once at Thanksgiving dinner. Next up: "The Hacker Known as Terminal" and "Why Cloud Computing Requires Umbrellas."

When Your Programming Searches Sound Like Criminal Activity

When Your Programming Searches Sound Like Criminal Activity
OH. MY. GOD. The absolute HORROR of having non-tech friends peek at your search history! 😱 There you are, innocently Googling "how to kill child of fork" like the responsible process manager you are, and suddenly everyone thinks you're plotting a tiny-tined murder spree! For the blissfully unaware: in programming, particularly in Unix/Linux systems, a "fork" creates a "child process" from a "parent process." And sometimes those children need to be... *dramatic whisper* TERMINATED. It's not murder, it's MEMORY MANAGEMENT, KAREN! 💅 The FBI agent monitoring my searches is probably on stress leave by now. "I swear officer, I was just trying to clean up zombie processes!"

Fork It

Fork It
The eternal struggle of process management in operating systems, summarized in silverware. When you desperately need to duplicate a running process, the OS just gives you a fork() — which is both literally the perfect tool and absolutely useless at the same time. Sure, it creates a child process, but now you've got two nearly identical processes and twice the existential dread. Ten years of systems programming and I still can't decide if this is brilliant design or the universe's cruelest joke.