GNU's Not Unix! moment
GNU's not Unix image manipulation program toolkit.
RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit
Lol Edit: TIL that's what GTK stands for
Windows should emulate Linux so it can run wine on its arm chips.
WSL 3 wishlist starts here
I refuse to use 2 because it breaks all my shit.
OG WSL 1 for me, or just Linux lol
My personal favorite acronym like that definitely goes to AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) that if I remember correctly had to - for legal reasons - change the name. Rather than come up with a completely new name, went with AROS Research Operating System.
Edit: name change was apparently to avoid any trademark issues with the Amiga name.
GTK = GNU's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit
I wrote a rule engine for processing data called ORE - ORE Rule Engine I wanted to call it Odoyle Rules Engine. It had a QueryTracker, that had a RulesAppliedQueue aka a QT with a RAQ. This is what happens when you have 4 friends from college working in a 4 pack office.
my favorite fact about Wine is that they could've named it Pine, Dine, Fine, Line, etc
It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned
It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator”
It's not an emulator though. That's literally what the name is explaining!
Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.
EMACS makes all coding suck
VIM is marvelous
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
That joke has aged like milk
Vim is the new "I use Arch btw"
NEW?
I guess? Because I'm new to Linux
I can bet the Emacs/Vim war has been raging for longer than you have been alive.
My favorite software acronym is PINCE, the reverse engineering tool that's similar to Cheat Engine in Winblols, that stands for PINCE Is Not Cheat Engine.
My favorite is the scanning device interface driver protocol.
TWAIN
Technology Without An Interesting Name
I really wanted this to be true but according to Wikipedia that’s an unofficial backronym. :( Sorry to be Debbie Downer.
Get outta here with your facts! /s
Well that's LAME
But I thought LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder?!
Actually I never got that. WINE isn't an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder
Next you're going to tell me the People's Republic of North Korea isnt a Republic?
GNU Hurd.
It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
– Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell
And then they slapped the GNU's not UNIX infront for good measure
A Criminal Regiment Of Nasty Young Men
HURD moment
True is not cause it not emulating CPU/GPU of a different device, is more like a translator of sorts as it translates windows modules like directx and stuff in a way that Linux can interpret them and use them!
It kind of is though.
Not really. It is just translating the Windows system API calls into Linux system API calls. It's not emulating Windows, it's an entirely different implementation that doesn't necessarily match that of Microsoft's implementation. It had it own workarounds to make buggy code work.
You wouldn't call a Java Virtual Machine an emulator of another JVM either, they're just different implementations of the same specification.
Thing is, I do kind of think of a JVM as an emulator for a processor that doesn't exist.
WINE kind of blurs the line of a traditional emulator by having the executable run natively on the target machine's CPU, but everything it does in regards to dealing with the host OS, the display, disk access, etc, is emulated as far as I'm aware.
A theoretical PS4 or Xbox One emulator running on x86 hardware could be just as much of an emulator as WINE is.
I'd call a JVM an emulator. To the end user they're the same.
Yaml ain't markup language
Of course not! It's a drink!
WINaE! It bugs me that it isn't "Wine Is Not Emulation"
wine = iterate (++" Is Not an Emulator") "WINE"
I've never worked with Haskell, but I've been meaning to expand my programming repertoire (particularly since I don't get to do much coding at work, let alone learn new languages) and this makes for a nice opportunity, so I wanna try to parse this / guess at the syntax.
I assume iterate function arg
applies some function
to arg
repeatedly, presumably until some exit condition is met? Or does it simply create an infinite, lazily evaluated sequence?
( )
would be an inline function definition then, in this case returning the result of applying ++suffix
to its argument (which other languages might phrase something like arg += suffix
), thereby appending " Is Not an Emulator" to the function argument, which is initially "WINE".
So as a result, the code would produce an infinite recurring "WINE Is Not an Emulator Is Not an Emulator..." string. If evaluated eagerly, it would result in an OOM error (with tail recursion) or a stack overflow (without). If evaluated lazily, it would produce a lazy string, evaluated only as far as it is queried (by some equivalent of a head
function reading the first X characters from it).
How far off am I? What pieces am I missing?
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