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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

For comparison, "amazing" occurs six times.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

And most of those cases are of course using the word sarcastically

collapsed list of themThe next function to implement is called, amazingly, next(); its job is to move the iterator forward to the next position in the sequence.

if (lc->sync == NOSYNC)
	for (i = lc->header.nr_regions; i < lc->region_count; i++)
		/* FIXME: amazingly inefficient */
		log_set_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, i);
else
	for (i = lc->header.nr_regions; i < lc->region_count; i++)
		/* FIXME: amazingly inefficient */
		log_clear_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, i);

/*
 * Amazingly, if ehv_bc_tty_open() returns an error code, the tty layer will
 * still call this function to close the tty device.  So we can't assume that
 * the tty port has been initialized.
 */

 *   this header was blatantly ripped from netfilter_ipv4.h
 *   it's amazing what adding a bunch of 6s can do =8^)

/*
 * I studied different documents and many live PROMs both from 2.30
 * family and 3.xx versions. I came to the amazing conclusion: there is
 * absolutely no way to route interrupts in IIep systems relying on
 * information which PROM presents. We must hardcode interrupt routing
 * schematics. And this actually sucks.   -- zaitcev 1999/05/12

 * corresponding ABS_X and ABS_Y events. This turns the Twiddler into a game
 * controller with amazing 18 buttons :-)

 * In an amazing feat of design, the Enhanced Features Register (EFR)
 * shares the address of the Interrupt Identification Register (IIR).
 * Access to EFR is switched on by writing a magic value (0xbf) to the
 * Line Control Register (LCR). Any interrupt firing during this time will
 * see the EFR where it expects the IIR to be, leading to
 * "Unexpected interrupt" messages.

 * Thanks BUGabundo and Malmostoso for your amazing help!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Only one of them barely reaching 200. For the size of the Linux kernel I find these numbers surprisingly low.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Coding is a very... emotional activity. We get a bit salty sometimes.

I remember commenting a particularly bad routine with "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate".

There are also phrases such as "by the process of offending god, this somehow outputs..." and "This block was written by someone whose sanity was not so much questionable as it was entirely reprehensible - but it works".

I also remember doing a search and replace of every instance of the word "fuck" with "[fornicate]" when bringing someone new onto a project.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I would have expected the comments to be pretty dry and to the point. Thos eare some interesting stats. 🤣

[-] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

Never understood why 'damn' is a swear word. Is it a religious thing?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

It'll never stop being funny to me how in the US it'a apparently considered pretty bad and even gets censored while here in germany it's one of those child friendly swears that you expect kindergarten kids to say.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

In Norway "shit" is considered the child friendly way of swearing since it's not religious. I still have no idea why it's considered swearing in English/USA

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Interesting, here in germany I'd say that's like a medium level swear (the sexual ones are what I'd consider high level, the religious ones usually no one cares about, at least in the north).

I wonder if the 3 usual categories - religious, sexual, fecal - can be approximately ranked (at least with one being the clear "worst" or "least bad") in every culture or if sometimes it's all over the place.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago

it relates to damnation and is basically short for 'i sentence you to eternal damnation/hell'

It lost all of its flare when being condemned to hell became a casual thing (eg. 'go to hell')

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Most uses of 'retard' are in variable names like B43legacy_OFDMTAB_ADVRETARD but we also have

The switch is so retarded that it makes our command/entry abstraction crumble apart.

and

we shouldn't need asm for this, but gcc is being retarded

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Most uses of 'retard' are in variable names like B43legacy_OFDMTAB_ADVRETARD but we also have

That explains the sudden drop, with legacy code being removed

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

If I am reading this correctly the Linux kernel needs to give more fucks…

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

I added banana (for scale) and it's on the up and up: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,crap*,bastard,penguin,banana

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Either they have paragraphs of oddly specific insults or banana pi is becoming popular.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

yep, it's almost all banana pi, and at least 4 different 'models' of it it seems. But the word is also used in some string processing tests and as an example comment of how suffix arrays work..

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

TIL “damn” is an insult.

I thought it was just an intensifier.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Now do in GTA V source code

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Would that be more or less, do you think?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Critical Raster Angle Protrusion

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Did you just enter your password on here?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

That the new pw?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

smh. That's supposed to go in cell A1.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

When there's an organic-looking decline that seems like a good sign, but the sudden sharp drops seem likely a sign of "corporate oversight" and not an actual improvement.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I don't see a sharp drop as a sign of corporate oversight at all.

Stuff may be tackled en-batch. Or individuals can care. Or it can be an organic team decision or effort.

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