• rudyharrelson
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    9 个月前

    Not a teacher, per se, but the senior dev on my old team once said something that left me scratching my head. We were trying to troubleshoot an inconsistent bug in our software, and I said, “Maybe it’s a race condition,” to which he replied, “There’s no such thing.”

    Still trying to figure out what he meant by that.

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      9 个月前

      Dude only ever wrote single threaded software, that’s his secret sauce to avoid race conditions

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          9 个月前

          10/10 joke

          n’avoir pas (verb goes in the middle)

          /joke

          I know it still needs to be conjugated. I also accept the possibility that I could be wrong.

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              9 个月前

              Ahh, I didn’t get to that part of my French classes, lol

              I learned that “ne” and “pas” are like a sandwich, and the verb stuff being negated is the sandwich contents, so that stuck with me. Lol

              Thanks for the correction!

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                9 个月前

                Yeah, I wasn’t taught this in french class, hardly anyone is. idk why. My teacher told me about it after class when I asked about it.

        • Taewyth@jlai.lu
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          9 个月前

          Sérieux le correcteur automatique qui as bien choisis son mot pour faire chier là ahah

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        9 个月前

        Probably! He was a very smart guy (way more formal education in computer science than I), so I’ve always assumed there was some truth to what he said, but he didn’t elaborate further and I didn’t like bothering him with unnecessary questions, so I never followed up on the topic despite my confusion.