GNU’s Not Unix! moment
GNU’s not Unix image manipulation program toolkit.
RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit
Is there a separate RecursionError in modern versions of Python? Been a couple years but I remember it just being a RuntimeError
I haven’t really done much recursion in Python, but can’t we do a tail-recursive version so that it (almost) never reaches recursion depth issues?
We cannot, Python explicitly doesn’t do TCO.
http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html?m=1
Lol Edit: TIL that’s what GTK stands for
GNU’s not Unix image manipulation program toolkit public license
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
Qemu if you can get it. It is a little hard to learn but it can use Hyper-V acceleration
It’s harder to set up windows without giving microsoft the right to let 72 virgins rape your ass than to use QEMU.
Honestly, yes
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.
Acorn/ARM apparently did much the same thing.
i refuse to call it advanced risc Machine, it’s always Acorn Risc Machine
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!
It does emulate the windows environment
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.
I’m starting to get the impression that most software older than me is defined more by what it isn’t than by what it is.
EMACS makes all coding suck
VIM is marvelousEight 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.
Well, it was either that or “I’ve been using Unix for so long that my first text editor was ed”.
Emacs is older than ed
Didn’t ed released in 69 and Emacs is in 85?
73 and 76, but I got them mixed up, ed is older.
That’s for original Emacs though, the gnu version came out in 85
You could argue that maybe Helix is.
New?
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
I’m partial to a good TLA (three letter acronym) myself.
Well looks like I finally found a cheat engine equivalent for Linux
Sadly not, Cheat Engine has a whole lot more features. PINCE is still very good though
Game Conqueror also works, but is missing a lot of features too from what I can tell. Don’t know how it holds up against PINCE.
I’ve had success getting CE to run with Proton though, specifically by using SteamTinkerLaunch to run it as additional custom command with the game. There are other ways too, like protontricks. In my experience, it has been mostly stable, with the occasional freeze, but generally usable for pointer scanning and such.
You can wine about it all day - it still isn’t an emulator.
Some day when x86 is a thing no one has anymore, they’re going to put x86 emulation in wine and then it’ll actually be an emulator.
Well then, I guess our ideology doesn’t translate into the same meaning.
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?
well it sure as hell ain’t the people’s
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither Democratic, nor the people’s, nor a republic.”
- Voltaire
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
LoL I guess acronyms that repeat on itself are a common thing in Linux
A Criminal Regiment Of Nasty Young Men
Yaml ain’t markup language
HURD moment
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.
Yes but an emulator emulates both the CPU and GPU of the consoles and in the case of PS4 even thought the CPU is x86 the biggest difference I can think of is the GPU drivers.
Maybe depending on how far you take it. A CPU instruction is different from hardware to hardware, but a function signature would stay the same no matter the underlying architecture. If we want to go through that logic then an interpreter can be thought of as a form of emulator.
I’d call a JVM an emulator. To the end user they’re the same.
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!
