Free software has some glib naming conventions

Following the modern C conventions, the text following the series of (gnu) doesn't matter and you can write anything you want there.

It is front recursive so it's really "...is not unix is not unix is not unix is not unix image manipulation program tool kit object" and that first g doesn't exist.

It's recursive so it's more like gnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnu...

Now you need to write a layer of typedefs to map the expanded names back to their original types.

KNURD

gotem

GNU does have a kernel though

Did make me actually laugh.

you're not gonna believe this...

I think this is sarcasm, but just in case it isn't... GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix".

Gary

gnu

Greatsoftware Notwithstanding Unix

Well, I dont wanna start a debate, but the official website of GNU indicate that the "g" in GNU isn't silent.

So it depends on whether you want to pronounce it "properly" or as it was intended.

The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix!”; it is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like “grew” but with the letter n instead of r.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/pronunciation.en.html

Noot noot mother fucker

Jnu enough to stoke an ancient flame war for my personal entertainment.

They’ll be back in a jiff.

The G in GNU stands for JPEG.

The G in GIF stands for Graphical, but the G in Graphical stands for Graham Crackers, the G in Graham Crackers stands for God, and the G in God stands for Gnu. From there it's Gnus all the way down. Also, God pronounces "Graphical" with a soft G as in Jod.

Who’s Jeff?

It's pronounced Jee Iuayh Eff (G I F)

like XCF or PDF

It is in jnu.

That is why large companies don't want you to find where it is. The application of proprietary condoms to GNU licensed body parts would taint them with gpl license.

thank you

i expected this sooner xD

It's personal home page and I don't care if they retconed it

I wish we gnu some gnu jokes

Oh god. Is this going to be like how you pronounce "gif"?

Is it gif?

Or is it gif?

Ah a cursed dialect of lisp that's inversed.

You just unlocked a core direwolf20 memory

These are all major commercial services that can afford advertising or are already more than established. Most FOSS doesn’t have these perks.

Outlook (new) classic new new final (7). Teams (personal). Multiple products with wildly different appreance and somewhat different functionality. And then the whole 365-environment naming, starting from the platform itself.

I've always despised their naming schemes. I always thought I'd they ever started a car company they'd name their vehicle make as "car".

At least Xbox is original but now I'm sitting here wondering if they bought it off a small outfit

GIMP is an acronym for what's arguably the most descriptive name possible: GNU Image Manipulation Program.

If they had said cineplex would that have been more meaningful?

At least over here, Cineplexx is a really big movie theatre corporation. That makes it easy to understand what Plex is about.

I have no clue what MultiPlex theaters are

So back in the earlier days of cinema, you'd go to the Cineplex to see a movie. A Cineplex would only have a single screen for viewing movies while the multiplex would have multiple screens for seeing movies on. This started with the first duplex theatre in 1915 and later the first triplex in 1966, shortly followed by theatres with 6+ screens which is around when the term "multiplex" started being used. Basically for anyone born after the 80s (therefore anyone under the age of about 40) the term is largely obsolete since most theatres have at least 4 screens and qualify as multiplexes, plus the industry has seen so much consolidation that smaller independent theatres with 1-2 screens are pretty uncommon now

Good explanation. I'd say that's still a lot of processing for our noggins to quickly adapt to a framework of mind to comprehend all that to make sense of it.

I still like the name and it does make since after it's all spelled out.

SeaShell sounds like it’s a zsh plugin tbh.

Nah, AI almost always gives the most anodyne, bland, wet-fart name ideas, because all it can think of is stuff that's already been thought of.

The only real use cases for AI are things that computers are good at: pattern recognition in large datasets, search, translation, sentiment analysis, natural language processing and synthesis, that sort of thing. When you can bring those strengths to bear on the problem you're in business. Sometimes a neural network is the right choice; more often (at least right now) you can do as well or better with a more "dumb" algorithm. Even when a neural network is the right choice (such as when you have a non-deterministic problem), using a small one selectively is almost always a better option than feeding the entire thing to a gigantic model.

Legitimate use cases for LLMs (beyond simple toys) are remarkably niche at the moment.

Sustained