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Comment Re:cat food (Score 4, Informative) 26

"That command is a classic example of a fork bomb.

What it does

When executed in a POSIX-compliant shell (like Bash), this command causes the system to rapidly consume all available resources by creating an exponential number of processes until the system crashes or becomes completely unresponsive.

Breakdown of the syntax

Here is how that cryptic string is interpreted by the shell:

:(): This defines a function named :.

{ ... }: This defines the body of the function.

:|:: This calls the function : and pipes its output to another instance of the function :.

&: This puts the function call into the background, so the parent process doesn't wait for it to finish.

;: This terminates the function definition.

:: This final character executes the function for the first time, triggering the cycle.

Essentially, the function calls itself twice, and because it runs in the background, each call continues to spawn more copies of itself uncontrollably.

Important Warning

Do not run this command on your computer.

If you execute this, your system will likely become unresponsive, requiring a hard reboot to clear the process table and recover. On many modern Linux distributions, there are default security limits (ulimit) in place that prevent a single user from spawning enough processes to crash the entire system, but it is still highly inadvisable to test it."

Comment Re:When commies and MAGGies align (Score 0) 114

At least they are pro-America and like Jews quite a bit. Growing up in an Evangelical household, we were constantly implored us to put Jews on a pedestal as "God's Chosen People." So we can agree they're awful, but equal to Islamofascists? Not remotely.

Even a little Islamofascist money in our universities has turned all those little mushy heads into rabid anti-Semites overnight. Look at how Ana Kasparian ranted so virulently about how "Jews control our government" when the Iran war started. The left has turned into a cesspool of socialist anti-Semitism overnight.

Comment Re:Naked Graft (Score -1) 114

The former just passed on purchasing an empty, existing grocery store to instead build a (single) store at the cost of $30M, most of the cost he budgeted to build ALL of the guvment grocery stores for the whole city. Why? So he could funnel that money to his union contractor buddies.

If you think socialism isn't pure graft, you're one of the idiots who voted for him, or would have.

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