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I always wondered, is it French? "Je m'alloc du memory"

u8080 15d ago
Memory je Srbia
sam_lowry_ 15d ago
Rather a tradition to call a malloc by the initials of the implementer: Jason Evans malloc (jemalloc), Poul-Henning Kamp malloc (phkmalloc), Doug Lea (dlmalloc). P.S. I also wondered whether systemd had any cultural reference to Système D aka Système Débrouillard, but Pottering does not seem to engage in word play on other occasions, so probably not.
- tefkah 15d ago
  damn i always thought it was a french thing, this is blowing my mind
  - eliaspro 15d ago
    "Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. Why? Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d." Source: https://brand.systemd.io/ https://brand.systemd.io/
    - NewJazz 14d ago
      I love how autocorrect thinks I mean to type systems, not systemd. I mean they are one key away on qwerty and systemd is definitely not a word.
  - fizzbuzzbarbazz 15d ago
    you were right, check siblings of your comment.
- justincormack 15d ago
  It does > Systemd was launched in April 2010; it adopts various ideas from previous init systems and combines them with a uniform configuration and administration interface. Systemd operates as a background service (daemon) and controls important system configuration tasks including hardware initialisation and the starting of server processes. The developers thought that its name is suitably reminiscent of the French term "système D", an expression that relates to "thinking on your feet" and describes high-speed technical problem-solving abilities such as those displayed by TV action hero MacGyver. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014173559/http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Control-Centre-The-systemd-Linux-init-system-1565543.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121014173559/http://www.h-onli...
simonask 15d ago
Thanks, now my brain will forever read it like that. I'm not even a little bit French.
jibcage 15d ago
Fun grammatical fact that I only learned after years of speaking French: when borrowing words from other languages, you usually (not always) take the gender of the equivalent word in French, so technically it would be “de la memory” :)
- thrance 15d ago
  That's the rule the old geezers at the Academy insist on. But then you have idiotic situations where everyone is using "le" for e.g. the COVID virus, while Academicians cry about the D meaning "Disease", which is feminine, making it "la COVID" in their book. As for all languages, the most important rule is that usage prevails. And that's something we in France still have a hard time integrating into public discourse.
  - progval 15d ago
    An interesting case is "WiFi", short for "wireless fidelity". "Fidélité sans fil" in French should be feminine, but every technical person says "le WiFi" (masculine) while many (most?) non-technical people intuitively say "la WiFi" (feminine).
    - ButlerianJihad 15d ago
      If you keep your access point secure and in good working order, or if you can flash any firmware into OpenWRT... make sure to publicly credit your excellent "Wi-fu"
      - hobo123 15d ago
        Better keep the wifi working, or your waifu could get angry.
    - wpollock 15d ago
      WiFi is not an acronym for "wireless fidelity"; the developers likely just thought it sounded cool. The term is probably just a play on the words from the audio term "high fidelity". The phrase "Wireless Fidelity" is meaningless. The more you know!
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u8080 15d ago

Memory je Srbia

Rather a tradition to call a malloc by the initials of the implementer: Jason Evans malloc (jemalloc), Poul-Henning Kamp malloc (phkmalloc), Doug Lea (dlmalloc). P.S. I also wondered whether systemd had any cultural reference to Système D aka Système Débrouillard, but Pottering does not seem to engage in word play on other occasions, so probably not.

tefkah 15d ago
damn i always thought it was a french thing, this is blowing my mind
- eliaspro 15d ago
  "Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. Why? Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d." Source: https://brand.systemd.io/ https://brand.systemd.io/
  - NewJazz 14d ago
    I love how autocorrect thinks I mean to type systems, not systemd. I mean they are one key away on qwerty and systemd is definitely not a word.
- fizzbuzzbarbazz 15d ago
  you were right, check siblings of your comment.
justincormack 15d ago
It does > Systemd was launched in April 2010; it adopts various ideas from previous init systems and combines them with a uniform configuration and administration interface. Systemd operates as a background service (daemon) and controls important system configuration tasks including hardware initialisation and the starting of server processes. The developers thought that its name is suitably reminiscent of the French term "système D", an expression that relates to "thinking on your feet" and describes high-speed technical problem-solving abilities such as those displayed by TV action hero MacGyver. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014173559/http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Control-Centre-The-systemd-Linux-init-system-1565543.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121014173559/http://www.h-onli...

simonask 15d ago

Thanks, now my brain will forever read it like that. I'm not even a little bit French.

jibcage 15d ago

Fun grammatical fact that I only learned after years of speaking French: when borrowing words from other languages, you usually (not always) take the gender of the equivalent word in French, so technically it would be “de la memory” :)

thrance 15d ago
That's the rule the old geezers at the Academy insist on. But then you have idiotic situations where everyone is using "le" for e.g. the COVID virus, while Academicians cry about the D meaning "Disease", which is feminine, making it "la COVID" in their book. As for all languages, the most important rule is that usage prevails. And that's something we in France still have a hard time integrating into public discourse.
- progval 15d ago
  An interesting case is "WiFi", short for "wireless fidelity". "Fidélité sans fil" in French should be feminine, but every technical person says "le WiFi" (masculine) while many (most?) non-technical people intuitively say "la WiFi" (feminine).
  - ButlerianJihad 15d ago
    If you keep your access point secure and in good working order, or if you can flash any firmware into OpenWRT... make sure to publicly credit your excellent "Wi-fu"
    - hobo123 15d ago
      Better keep the wifi working, or your waifu could get angry.
  - wpollock 15d ago
    WiFi is not an acronym for "wireless fidelity"; the developers likely just thought it sounded cool. The term is probably just a play on the words from the audio term "high fidelity". The phrase "Wireless Fidelity" is meaningless. The more you know!

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