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And here I was cynically thinking I was going to learn how to "get root" on my friends. Still applies I guess.

by aeblyve 1y ago

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bigiain 1y ago
As an Australian, "Root for your friends" has a hilariously alternate meaning.
AStonesThrow 1y ago
I offered to give root and/or ssh to a couple of friends, and they all turned it down. I don't really have any friends anyway. Perhaps we can parlay this title into a video game. Or simply an alternate title for Core War.
- raddan 1y ago
  Oddly I have found that nearly all of my best friends come from different walks of life than me, and do different things for work. Only one of my very good friends does the same things that I do. Others, like my stonemason friend, have very different lives, and we met by chance. I’ve also found lately that I enjoy socializing with people over a shared activity, like a class. I just got back (today) from taking a drafting (ie, architectural drawing) class. The people in it were very different from me: a mix of tradespeople and artists. Nevertheless, it was clear that all of us shared a love of learning a skill and doing it well, and so it really was a blast. I learned a lot from them. You might try just doing something different. It was an interesting experience spending the day with people who wanted to talk to me because I was the odd one out—none of them personally knew any programmers or computer scientists and they all had a million questions!
rez0123 1y ago
inception is a form of code execution in their brain.
temp0826 1y ago
sudo make me a sandwich (xkcd.com/149)
zaphodias 1y ago
Me too, reinforced by author's name :)
photochemsyn 1y ago
It's easier to get root on your friends than it is to get root on your enemies, because they likely trust you. This is why a central tenent of John Le Carre narratives is "fear your friends more than your enemies." This often plays out in the blood sport of academic politics, incidentally.
noahchen 1y ago
Somewhat related: I read the author's name as Joseph T Hacker at first instead of Joseph Thacker.

And here I was cynically thinking I was going to learn how to "get root" on my friends. Still applies I guess.

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bigiain 1y ago

As an Australian, "Root for your friends" has a hilariously alternate meaning.

AStonesThrow 1y ago

I offered to give root and/or ssh to a couple of friends, and they all turned it down. I don't really have any friends anyway. Perhaps we can parlay this title into a video game. Or simply an alternate title for Core War.

raddan 1y ago
Oddly I have found that nearly all of my best friends come from different walks of life than me, and do different things for work. Only one of my very good friends does the same things that I do. Others, like my stonemason friend, have very different lives, and we met by chance. I’ve also found lately that I enjoy socializing with people over a shared activity, like a class. I just got back (today) from taking a drafting (ie, architectural drawing) class. The people in it were very different from me: a mix of tradespeople and artists. Nevertheless, it was clear that all of us shared a love of learning a skill and doing it well, and so it really was a blast. I learned a lot from them. You might try just doing something different. It was an interesting experience spending the day with people who wanted to talk to me because I was the odd one out—none of them personally knew any programmers or computer scientists and they all had a million questions!

rez0123 1y ago

inception is a form of code execution in their brain.

temp0826 1y ago

sudo make me a sandwich (xkcd.com/149)

zaphodias 1y ago

Me too, reinforced by author's name :)

photochemsyn 1y ago

It's easier to get root on your friends than it is to get root on your enemies, because they likely trust you. This is why a central tenent of John Le Carre narratives is "fear your friends more than your enemies." This often plays out in the blood sport of academic politics, incidentally.

noahchen 1y ago

Somewhat related: I read the author's name as Joseph T Hacker at first instead of Joseph Thacker.