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> In the study, I'm glad that clowns are finally being called out! Also garbage collectors. Very creepy not to manage memory manually.
by elcapitan 10y ago
> In the study, I'm glad that clowns are finally being called out!
Also garbage collectors. Very creepy not to manage memory manually.
- bcpermafrost 10y agoHeyyyooooo!
- EthanHeilman 10y agoDogs tend to get very upset about garbage collectors as well. Is there some deep unease about strangers taking things away which used to be yours?
- splawn 10y agoIdk, my dogs seem to like java and lisp on their bigger projects. Then again they are known to be the worst at creating memory leaks whenever they hack C.
- PeCaN 10y agoWeird. My dogs, which are rather naughty, use Lisp on most of their projects too.
- Bartweiss 10y agoAlmost certainly. Garbage collection doesn't seem especially alarming to most of us because it's institutionalized, but "rag men" and "garbage pickers" are still seen as quite creepy because they're individuals taking possessions we identify with. The decision to throw something away doesn't sever it from our identity, especially with old clothes and personal effects. Of course, the dog effect may be more about theft than identity, because they have no real way to differentiate "taking unwanted objects" from "taking valued objects" - after all, that garbage smelled delicious to them!
- kps 10y agoWell yes, since the paper implies that creepiness boils down to unpredictable potential threat, garbage collection is very creepy. Reference counting is not creepy, though.
- naasking 10y agoReference counting pauses can actually be worse. Reference counting and tracing are duals, and only collectors that exploit properties of both avoid the worst case complexity of each. Alone they each have just as bad worst cases, just in dual scenarios.
- sageikosa 10y agoStack pointers: everything after this point is no longer my problem.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoTakes one to know one in this case i.e. you have to be a creepy to even know this.
- dang 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11706032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11706032 and marked it off-topic.
- morgante 10y agoArguably this is more on-topic than the rest of the thread.