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Runk (thelemmy.club)

submitted 6 days ago by AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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This is so true tho

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[-] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 hours ago

Runk is Icelandic for jerking off

[-] FedX@quokk.au 320 points 6 days ago

Ronald is indescribably more important than any tech billionaire could ever hope to be. So let's raise a glass and give out a hardy thank you to all the Ronalds of the world!

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 141 points 6 days ago

Too bad all the tech billionaires profit from Ronald's work while he does it for free.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago

“Ronald” is all of us.

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[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 140 points 6 days ago

They are real people

XZ Utils (maintained single-handedly by Lasse Collin) is widely regarded as the most critical infrastructure library run by one person. Its near-catastrophic compromise in 2024 revealed how global digital security hinges on solo, thanklessly managed open-source projects. Other major examples include cURL (Daniel Stenberg) and SQLite (D. Richard Hipp)

[-] nik9000@programming.dev 83 points 6 days ago

When I last talked to Richard he had company to work on SQLite. It was like four people.

SQLite is still deployed on everything, everywhere. You browser. Your phone. Macs. Half of Linux machine. Your airplane. It's super impressive.

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[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 days ago

Other major examples include cURL (Daniel Stenberg) and SQLite (D. Richard Hipp)

While those are the main developers neither is alone in maintaining their respective software.

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 177 points 6 days ago

Bless Ronald

[-] AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 6 days ago

Our math depends on him 🙏

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 93 points 6 days ago

Written in hand-optimized assembly with individual implementation for every CPU on the planet, with integer division function in 10000 lines of code impelented with XOR and bit-shifting which is somehow 0.3% faster than CPU built-in division operation.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago

He had to de-optimize the init sequence because the little trick he added that caused the init sequence to return a little power to the grid instead of taking it was causing grid stability issues because the returned power from offices starting up was a bit higher than the extra power required for factory startup weekday mornings.

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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 45 points 5 days ago

xkcd 2347

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[-] lividweasel@lemmy.world 165 points 6 days ago

XKCD #2347: Dependency

An interactive version of the famous comic

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 78 points 6 days ago

Also extremely stable.

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[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago

By gods, the interactive one is great!

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[-] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 135 points 6 days ago

Not sure if it's part of the joke but that word means "jerk" (as in "jerk off") in Swedish.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 131 points 6 days ago

So a perfect open source name then.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 82 points 6 days ago

Runk that hog, swedish boy.

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[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 6 days ago

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[-] raman_klogius@ani.social 53 points 5 days ago

My go to real example is curl

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 35 points 5 days ago

Christopher's Universal Request Library

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 21 points 5 days ago

In case anyone thinks you're serious, that's not what it stands for.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 19 points 5 days ago

Yeah, its just Chris, dude HATES when people call him Christopher.

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[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 71 points 6 days ago

This is why when Steve Jobs died in 2011 another far more important figure died... Dennis Ritchie. The man who made the C programming language and Unix, without which nothing Apple produced would be possible.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 37 points 6 days ago

Not to downplay dmr's importance here because he quite literally is the father of modern computing, but without him we'd just have something else and perhaps it would've been a bit later. A different systems programming language and a different operating system everything else is modeled after. High-level programming languages weren't a new concept when he wrote C. Before B they already had Fortran. Funny to call any of those High-level in 2026, but that's the whole importance of C, isn't it? It made writing complex systems easy compared to assembly languages or even fortran.

I'm not gonna bother doing a writeup about Jobs, we all here know he made precisely Jack shit.

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[-] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 82 points 6 days ago

Everyone who understands Norwegian love the name Ronald chose for his invaluable tool.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 49 points 6 days ago

For the uninitiated: well, let's just say. jorkin it.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 38 points 6 days ago

and by "it".. hehe, well lets just say... my digits

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 days ago

On top of it all, Steve Jobs wasn't even in tech. He was in sales.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 70 points 6 days ago

Ah. He must be a KDE contributor as well.

[-] spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works 57 points 6 days ago

Kontributor

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[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 55 points 6 days ago

Fabrice Bellard is ten Ronalds.

[-] AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 6 days ago

FFmpeg and QEMU? Holy shit!
I had no idea

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 51 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The myth of Steve Jobs needed the actual genius of others to exist. Steve's gift to the world was recognizing and pointing out actual gifts tonthe world that would have otherwise gone unoticed or not brought to their full potential.

If Steve was still around, he would have taken Ronald's idea and had it rebuilt with a little polish and an exorbitant price tag.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

And scrubbed it of any mention of Ronald's name before pulling it out onstage. Don't forget that.

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[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago

handles all math on every machine on earth

That's just gmp. The go-to unlimited precision arithmetic library.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 44 points 6 days ago

For a long time all systems which deal with timezone data (like ability to convert utc to est for example) was reliant on 1 server in 1 random guy's basement which he paid for himself. I heard they were working to correct this situation but haven't been following it.

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 43 points 6 days ago

You sent me down the exact kind of weird rabbit hole I love. Genuinely thank you.

It's maintained by the IANA now (the same people who basically run the modern Internet, saying what domains are allowed and such for those who don't know). Though Arthur David Olson (the man you mentioned) still contributes his expertise and data.

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[-] SalamiDommie@lemmus.org 37 points 6 days ago

The amount of businesses with things you just can't touch for whatever reason is surprising.

The reliance on something made that is barely understood by the entire company makes me think that society will drag on generations after any kind of societal collapse.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 33 points 6 days ago

Social collapse isn't an exciting day in your life, it's a broad trend historians will puzzle over centuries later. Look at the bronze age collapse for an example.

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[-] Digit@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago

Here's to all the Ronalds and Daniels out there.

Thanks.

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