@weastie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 6 days agoIronically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu ismessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down10
arrow-up1236arrow-down1message-squareIronically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is@weastie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 6 days agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-square@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-25 days agoNo one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can perform an infinite recursion in constant time.
minus-square@LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish7•6 days agoGNU isn’t entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.
minus-square@BootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink7•5 days agoI actually wrote a script to figure out what the last G stands for. The last G stsnds for “RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded”. Pretty weird.
minus-square@Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•4 days agoThis is why it really should have been called “NNU”, that would work perfectly.
No one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can perform an infinite recursion in constant time.
GNU isn’t entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.
I actually wrote a script to figure out what the last G stands for. The last G stsnds for “RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded”. Pretty weird.
NaN’s not UNIX
This is why it really should have been called “NNU”, that would work perfectly.