Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by Wiwaxia, Oct 28, 2015.

  1. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

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  2. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    @palindromordnilap u r super cool and have pretty hair. Also your username is awesome
     
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  3. Technicality

    Technicality All's fair in love and shitposting

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  4. Ipuntya

    Ipuntya return of eggplant

    you are a good egg
     
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  5. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    Thanks, you too

    (@Deresto and @Technicality, thank you too, you're awesome!)
     
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  6. thegrimsubaccount

    thegrimsubaccount I'm so good at anonymity, guys

    -stealths into and out of the thread to give hugs to everyone who's ok w them-
     
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  7. Technicality

    Technicality All's fair in love and shitposting

    hugs back
     
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  8. Ducks

    Ducks 79 Plural Fowl Illuminates The Legendary

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  9. Wormwitch

    Wormwitch I'm building a squishmallow army!

    Just had to change my twitter password because my account was compromised. This seems to be happening a lot lately, wonder what's going on.
     
  10. Ipuntya

    Ipuntya return of eggplant

  11. Wormwitch

    Wormwitch I'm building a squishmallow army!

    Not yet thankfully. It's always my twitter that's compromised.
     
  12. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    If a ghost and a zombie from the same body fell in love would that be fucked up or what
     
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  13. Snitchanon

    Snitchanon What's a mod to a nonbeliever.

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  14. Technicality

    Technicality All's fair in love and shitposting

    why are so many linux programs named after foods? for example crouton, wine, grub
     
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  15. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    The penguins are hungry
     
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  16. Technicality

    Technicality All's fair in love and shitposting

    (please, I need context)
     
  17. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    All I can find is articles about Android names. :|
     
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  18. NevermorePoe

    NevermorePoe Nevermore

    I found one about computer terminology in general. It just reinforced that most things are named from either jokes, continuations of the jokes, or random acronyms. I'd guess that the answer to @Technicality's question is that the programmers were hungry, or looking at the food in question. At least for the first one, after that it might have just been "We named the first one after food, why not continue the naming scheme?"
     
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  19. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
    is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
    Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
    of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
    utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
    without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
    which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
    not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
    part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
    that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
    The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
    it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
    normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
    is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
    distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
     
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  20. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    Me, eating off of the horrible brownie mess i made last night while high from my night meds with some pretzels crushed up and thrown on top with my bare hands: i am a fully functioning adult
     
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