Linus Torvalds labels Super Bowl ‘violent version of egg-and-spoon race’
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“This is hopefully the last rc for this release, unless some surprise comes along and makes a travesty of our carefully laid plans,” he wrote in his Sunday afternoon [1]state of the kernel post in which he announced rc 7 of version 5.11.
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“Nothing hugely scary stands out,” he added, with selftests and documentation representing about a quarter of recent additions.
“Go forth and test,” he wrote. “Unless you're glued to the TV, of course.”
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That’s a reference to the opening of his post, which notes that he published it on the same day as Super Bowl LV, the championship game of the United States’ National Football League.
It's kind of a more violent and hands-on team-oriented version of the traditional egg-and-spoon race
Torvalds appears bemused by the game, writing: “everybody is getting ready to watch the yearly top TV commercials, occasionally interrupted by some odd handegg carrying competition that I still haven't figured out the rules for after twenty-odd years here.”
“It's kind of a more violent and hands-on team-oriented version of the traditional egg-and-spoon race, and involves a lot of standing around, apparently waiting for the next commercial to come on.”
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“Outside the US, everybody scratches their heads about the whole thing, and hopefully life goes on with the weekly celebration involving compiling and testing new kernels instead.” ®
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Re: As an American, I can tell you some Super Bowl secrets
[1]Can I offer you some broccoli?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDYV1NCNiTE
Re: As an American, I can tell you some Super Bowl secrets
"This might be questionable content, however."
Why? What's Pintsize up to now?
Re: As an American, I can tell you some Super Bowl secrets
You forgot that cheating is not only allowed, it is encouraged .... and that the outcome is decided by the guys in the stripped shirts.
Never understood some names
Why do some games get called football when mostly the egg or round thing is carried by runners who throw it mostly ? Why is a game consisting of getting sunburned standing around named after a nocturnal insect ?
Why do some people loudly boast of "their team" when it is owned, usually, by Johnny Foreigner ?
If the target object does not start moving at 160 kmh, it is boring to watch IMHO. Even then, I have better things to do. However, testing kernels is not one of them. As kernels get bigger, all I have noticed is linux sound on laptops, especially HPs, fails to work more often. Also getting harder to fix. Hardware that just worked 5 years or more ago now fails or required tedious fiddling down in ALSA or sysctl somewhere
Re: Never understood some names
Hardware that just worked 5 years or more ago now fails or required tedious fiddling down in ALSA or sysctl somewhere
I was tearing my hair out trying to fix a sound issue, and fiddling about in those very areas - finally gave up. Then about 18months later, it all started working again after an update
Re: Never understood some names
Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?
It's all homoerotic crap.
A bunch of guys called "tight ends", "wide receivers", "fullback", "halfback", "quarterback", & "rushers" wearing silly costumes & comicly oversized crotch protectors running around grunting & shoving & slapping each other on the ass & getting all hot & sweaty slamming their chests together like a bunch of rutting moose scrambling around after an inflated rubber balloon shaped like someone's large intestine to try & run it over an arbitrary line or kick it over a tall stick while the fans get shitfaced drunk & scream themselves stupid. Oh and the scantily clad cheerleaders shake their pompoms to try & get the crowd even more riled up. Plus the occaisional commercial that may or may not be amusing.
I'd rather go reformat my computer & reinstal Windows ME.
Re: It's all homoerotic crap.
Oh my. There aren't enough upvotes in the world.
Re: It's all homoerotic crap.
Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course.
And gw'an, admit it, you're secretly titillated ... or so your lovingly written commentary would suggest.
Answering the subject line....
But also recommended Hockey as the way of peace.
Re: Answering the subject line....
Of course. Hockey is the One True Sport, eh.
As an American, I can tell you some Super Bowl secrets
If a team "goes for it" on fourth down and succeeds, the coach's Special Bar recharges all the way and he can unleash his Ultimate Combo
There is a secret "fifth down" that can only be unlocked by a player wielding a piece of the True Cross
And then it's time for the kick off! Touch your battlefoot to the Pain Ellipsoid and let the cycle of violence begin anew!
This might be questionable content, however.