He enjoys playing with language. Perhaps that term tickled his fancy over carefully phrased cussing. Either that or he wants to reserve the swear jar for NVIDIA.
The only thing worse than pseudo-psychology is pseudo-psychology from nerds who think they're above the need to make logic and evidence-backed statements.
You're a nerd! So everything you say that seems to link A to B must be right! Not like the non-nerd rabble who use the same ridiculous reasoning but don't have the nerd cred to get a free pass on logic and fact!
He enjoys playing with language. Perhaps that term tickled his fancy over carefully phrased cussing. Either that or he wants to reserve the swear jar for NVIDIA.
The important thing is that everyone was nice, and that the community was inclusive and followed the code of conduct. That's the most important thing.
Linus swearing at people would have done nothing to make that announcement clearer. Clear communication for a disastrous bug is the most important thing and would have been hindered with a sweary rant. As it stands, it got to the explanation quickly, and then succintly explained the problem. Then the news of it spread around just as quickly, and the important information was reported as such, rather than it being the case of "Linus has fired off yet another nasty rant" that it would have been.
Linus swearing at people would have done nothing to make that announcement clearer. Clear communication for a disastrous bug is the most important thing and would have been hindered with a sweary rant. As it stands, it got to the explanation quickly, and then succintly explained the problem. Then the news of it spread around just as quickly, and the important information was reported as such, rather than it being the case of "Linus has fired off yet another nasty rant" that it would have been.
It's kinda cute that you took me so seriously. I gotta remember that sarcasm tag
I've been caught out with sarcasm/irony a few times today. It really didn't help that in recent weeks people have been trying to defend the indefensible by saying things like what you did but with no intention of irony.
I've been caught out with sarcasm/irony a few times today. It really didn't help that in recent weeks people have been trying to defend the indefensible by saying things like what you did but with no intention of irony.
No prob - I slip into terrible sarcasm on occasion, and forget the tag.
It's not as funny when you have to explain it. I guess there are a lot of people who don't recognize my post.
For those who don't know, my "Linus, SHUT THE FUCK UP" comment was a word-for-word copy (with the name changed) of one of Linus's earlier and more famous rants [slashdot.org] at a poor hapless kernel developer. He had been doing that privately for years, but that was one of the first times he did it on a public mailing list and it made news. It actually got a lot worse since then, but that was one of the most fam
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Only child rapists don't swear.
The only thing worse than pseudo-psychology is pseudo-psychology from nerds who think they're above the need to make logic and evidence-backed statements.
You're a nerd! So everything you say that seems to link A to B must be right! Not like the non-nerd rabble who use the same ridiculous reasoning but don't have the nerd cred to get a free pass on logic and fact!
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Is that the new "kick the dog syndrome?"
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I don’t know about all that, but apparently people who cuss are smarter, motherfucker.
https://thelanguagenerds.com/s... [thelanguagenerds.com]
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He enjoys playing with language. Perhaps that term tickled his fancy over carefully phrased cussing. Either that or he wants to reserve the swear jar for NVIDIA.
The important thing is that everyone was nice, and that the community was inclusive and followed the code of conduct. That's the most important thing.
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Linus swearing at people would have done nothing to make that announcement clearer. Clear communication for a disastrous bug is the most important thing and would have been hindered with a sweary rant. As it stands, it got to the explanation quickly, and then succintly explained the problem. Then the news of it spread around just as quickly, and the important information was reported as such, rather than it being the case of "Linus has fired off yet another nasty rant" that it would have been.
It's kinda cute that you took me so seriously. I gotta remember that sarcasm tag
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I've been caught out with sarcasm/irony a few times today. It really didn't help that in recent weeks people have been trying to defend the indefensible by saying things like what you did but with no intention of irony.
No prob - I slip into terrible sarcasm on occasion, and forget the tag.
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Linus, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you *still* haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?
If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to understand?
Shut up, Linus. And I don't _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously.
WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!
Seriously. How hard is this rule to understa
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It's not as funny when you have to explain it. I guess there are a lot of people who don't recognize my post.
For those who don't know, my "Linus, SHUT THE FUCK UP" comment was a word-for-word copy (with the name changed) of one of Linus's earlier and more famous rants [slashdot.org] at a poor hapless kernel developer. He had been doing that privately for years, but that was one of the first times he did it on a public mailing list and it made news. It actually got a lot worse since then, but that was one of the most fam
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To me it should have been modded funny. Where did people's sense of humor go ?
In anycase glad this was modded up
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