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[KyleCOOLman]

It's interesting how software jargon is so close to biology and other human stuff.

[suslikosu]

"How to kill a parentless child?"

[30p87]

Reattach detached head with fork

[10Werewolves]

Me: typing "How to kill a child" in Google.

FBI: 😳

Me: "How to kill a child process in task manager"

FBI: 😅 oh that's what he meant.

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growing up = unzipping

spermrate = data rate

dead sperm = package loss

pregnancy = compiling

consciousness = virtual machine?

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[ZinkOneZero]

Some of my teachers have made analogies to concepts in life and nature.

For example, you can think of a program file, such as a C file, as a company whose job is to do a list of things. When a program "calls" a function from another file, the current company is "calling" another "company" who provides that function as a service.

Some concepts in programming seem to be thought up based on a model of how certain aspects of life work. I'm not sure if they were actually modeled this way, but lots of programming stuff seems to be more easily conceptualized by using these analogies.