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: 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. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.234|162.158.107.234]] 17:22, 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. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.234|162.158.107.234]] 17:22, 21 October 2021 (UTC) | ||
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+ | :: 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. [[User:Esogalt|Esogalt]] ([[User talk: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 <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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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)
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)