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XKCD and its weirdly fitting timing in relation to my life again… Just 4 hours earlier, I had dealt with hardlinks in a Bash script and produced things like <code>cd "$(readlink -f "$(pwd)")"</code>. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 13:53, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 
XKCD and its weirdly fitting timing in relation to my life again… Just 4 hours earlier, I had dealt with hardlinks in a Bash script and produced things like <code>cd "$(readlink -f "$(pwd)")"</code>. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 13:53, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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I've thought this before (not sure if I ever wrote it anywhere, perhaps I did in the now long-deceased fora), but given the reappearance of 'cursed'ness in fairly recent comics, there maybe should be a Cursed category (of which [[:Category:Cursed Connectors]], recently created for a close run of four items, would obviously be a subset, if not members in their own right). Cursedicity seems to be a recurring Munroe meme (I counted more than a dozen distinct examples from a quick search, so consider this a suggestion. For all things mentioned/depicted/contemplated as cursed. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.199|141.101.98.199]] 19:16, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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Whoo, my first "first explanation". It's not a particularly thorny comic but my explanation could still use some judicious editing I'm sure. Esogalt (talk) 06:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

I added a "citation needed" to the claim that letting arbitrary websites modify your filesystem is a Bad Idea, because I couldn't resist >.< 172.68.132.74 08:40, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

[citation needed] 162.158.88.113 10:45, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

The previous comment is almost worth an XKCD comic of its own. --162.158.203.24 10:10, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

WTH did Randal do that lead him to put ext4 and javascript in the same search, and why does he think hardlinks are the problem with such a cursed search? 172.69.69.182 10:17, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Which specific IT professional is the explanation referring to? 141.101.105.35 12:40, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

None in particular, just in general. 172.69.90.11 14:01, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
It's an expression. It's essentially the same as saying "Any experienced IT professional", but a little more stylistic. That whole sentence seems slightly gatekeeper-ish to me anyway. Esogalt (talk) 13:51, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

As an added wrinkle, the alt text's search is cursed because there is a javascript framework completely unrelated to the ext filesystem that is also called ext, which had a version 4 and would thus muddy the waters of the search. -- 172.70.178.51 13:15, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Explanation should include why the alt text's search is "cursed." Seems like this comment hints at it, but I don't know enough about the topic to know if that is the full curse. 162.158.107.234 17:22, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
It's mentioned in the paragraph about Javascript, because I saw the cursedness coming mainly from the combination of JS (high level) with ext4 (low level). It could probably be explained more directly and in more depth though. Esogalt (talk) 17:41, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

XKCD and its weirdly fitting timing in relation to my life again… Just 4 hours earlier, I had dealt with hardlinks in a Bash script and produced things like cd "$(readlink -f "$(pwd)")". Fabian42 (talk) 13:53, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Cursed

I've thought this before (not sure if I ever wrote it anywhere, perhaps I did in the now long-deceased fora), but given the reappearance of 'cursed'ness in fairly recent comics, there maybe should be a Cursed category (of which Category:Cursed Connectors, recently created for a close run of four items, would obviously be a subset, if not members in their own right). Cursedicity seems to be a recurring Munroe meme (I counted more than a dozen distinct examples from a quick search, so consider this a suggestion. For all things mentioned/depicted/contemplated as cursed. 141.101.98.199 19:16, 21 October 2021 (UTC)