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GNU’s Not Unix! moment

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GNU’s not Unix image manipulation program toolkit.

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RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit

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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?

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Is there a separate RecursionError in modern versions of Python? Been a couple years but I remember it just being a RuntimeError

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Lol Edit: TIL that’s what GTK stands for

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GNU’s not Unix image manipulation program toolkit public license

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56 points

Windows should emulate Linux so it can run wine on its arm chips.

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26 points

WSL 3 wishlist starts here

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7 points

I refuse to use 2 because it breaks all my shit.

OG WSL 1 for me, or just Linux lol

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3 points

Qemu if you can get it. It is a little hard to learn but it can use Hyper-V acceleration

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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.

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Acorn/ARM apparently did much the same thing.

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i refuse to call it advanced risc Machine, it’s always Acorn Risc Machine

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33 points

GTK = GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit

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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.

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25 points

my favorite fact about Wine is that they could’ve named it Pine, Dine, Fine, Line, etc

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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

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It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator”

It’s not an emulator though. That’s literally what the name is explaining!

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2 points

It does emulate the windows environment

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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.

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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.

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