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jagged-chisel · 2026-02-20T21:40:49 1771623649

I’m an experienced Senior Software Engineer. I’ve never cracked under pressure. I’m pretty sure I haven’t cracked psychologically. Maybe I just don’t get The Lingo and I have no idea how cracked I have become.

I might categorize myself as a “crack software developer” - is this what they meant, or am I totally out of touch?

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-20T21:29:43 1771622983

Then you’re on your own to collect.

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-20T10:47:07 1771584427

But it does keep one in the habit of using NULL checks.

david-gpu · 2026-02-20T11:20:18 1771586418

It is pointless, because in Linux all you get is a virtual address. Physical backing is only allocated on first use.

In other words, the first time you access a "freshly allocated" non-null pointer you may get a page fault due to insufficient physical memory.

3836293648 · 2026-02-20T11:26:48 1771586808

By default, yes. You can configure it to not overcommit

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-19T13:49:38 1771508978

I’m curious to know if that was an accurate assessment by Amazon and if you were (or would have been?) satisfied with the purchase of their suggestion.

ChrisMarshallNY · 2026-02-19T14:24:02 1771511042

I have gone to the manufacturer's sites (I tend to avoid Amazon for purchases over about $50, because fraud).

They usually have something like "If you are a 10.5 for Adiddas, then you are a 10 for us" kind of thing.

Those have worked for me.

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-19T10:21:31 1771496491

“Content-first minimalism”

I disagree. Unless the ‘content’ is “corners are sooo round, and isn’t this glass-like distortion just so neat?”

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-17T13:44:09 1771335849

There's definitely a chance. Start with something like this: https://pixabay.com/music/

johanvts · 2026-02-17T14:00:46 1771336846

Thanks, but that’s royalty free music which is not an issue.

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-17T14:11:22 1771337482

Your original question sounded like you were unaware of how licensing music works. Royalty-free is a good place to start. If you want anything else, you can still do it legally, you just have to license the music for your use case. Various artists (and labels) provide various licensing terms. If you know someone, they might let you do it free.

If you're specific question was meant to be "did this person license this music legally for his site?" - yes, there's a chance he did. There's a chance he didn't. You'd have to ask him. Even if he did, that doesn't give anyone else rights to use those songs on their site.

DANmode · 2026-02-17T17:34:19 1771349659

Your original reply sounds like you didn’t open the music list on TFA,

which has three somewhat popular songs,

making royalty-free music emphatically not the topic.

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-17T13:42:51 1771335771

And what does the pattern on this site decode to? Maybe some nifty easter egg?

xattt · 2026-02-17T14:43:27 1771339407

It can probably be decoded with some Dungeons and Dragons-level incantation of ffmpeg.

Aurornis · 2026-02-17T16:43:02 1771346582

You don’t need to do anything complicated. Take a couple screenshots and crop to a slice where the rings are expanding horizontally. There is your barcode.

MisterTea · 2026-02-17T15:57:18 1771343838

It just looks like a bar code that is probably easily extracted with some machine vision.

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-17T11:45:37 1771328737

In context in this case, “hell of a lot of.” Seems we English speakers come up with myriad grammatical constructions to seem less offensive in certain forums.

jldugger · 2026-02-17T19:31:15 1771356675

Well, mostly I realized my first sentence was likely to come off more negative than funny (I just like, really enjoyed F-Zero GX back in the day!), so I decided to add a folksy salute to the effort to dilute that. And a smiley face, people heckin' love those =)

throwaway27448 · 2026-02-17T19:46:30 1771357590

Interesting. I associate the term with reddit, not being folksy. I think the folksy term would be "fuckin lot" or "very lot" or "hella".

I think maybe you were trying to cater to the "christians" or snowflake conservatives

itintheory · 2026-02-17T19:57:02 1771358222

It's linguistically a minced oath[1], and they're pretty common in all manner of online contexts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath

throwaway27448 · 2026-02-17T20:49:17 1771361357

Great reference; thank you.

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-16T01:25:42 1771205142

Oo Boon Too

I was born and raised amongst the rednecks of the southern US and still, someone saying “uh-BUN-too” sounds so silly

jagged-chisel · 2026-02-16T01:23:16 1771204996

As an American, I hear “pyes” - a single syllable “yes”, with a preceding “p.”