Once you learn about parser combinators, all other parsing looks pretty dopey.

You don’t kill zombies; a zombie is already dead. You wait for or reap zombies. (A zombie process is just a process table entry with its exit status; it goes away once the parent process has read that exit status.)

Show me what Stalinism looks like
This is what Stalinism looks like

C++ programmers always let their friends access their private members, so …

If you’re looking for commercial games on Linux, Steam has pretty much solved this with the “Steam Play” compatibility feature, which uses a customized version of WINE to run Windows games. For example, Baldur’s Gate 3 runs perfectly. It should work anywhere Steam does.

Ubuntu on Desktop I can understand.

Not anymore. A whole extra, unneeded, proprietary, locked-in package system. Ads in the default install.

There’s Mint, Pop!, and plenty of other options that actually respect the user.

Remember SOAP? Remember XML-RPC? Remember CORBA?

Those were not very good.

If you can’t tar to a pipe into ssh to a remote host and untar into an arbitrary location there, are you really using Unix?

I’m reminded of the character names that show up in MIT CS textbooks, like Alyssa P. Hacker (“a Lisp hacker”) and Eva Lu Ator.

There’s also the problem of some religious conservatives not realizing that straight people exist.

According to conservative psychologists like Paul Cameron or James Dobson, gay sex is a huge “temptation” that people must learn to resist; they worry that it would be the downfall of society if more people chose to succumb to that temptation. They might blame that temptation on Satan directly, or on LGBT+ propagandists, or liberalism; but they very much seem to believe that anyone could choose to be gay.

Sorry, no, that’s not how straight people work.

If you experience gay sex as a strong temptation, you’re just not straight. That’s okay! Quite a lot of people are straight, and are just not interested in having gay sex. If all the people who are “tempted” to have gay sex went and did so, there would still be lots of straight people left having lots of straight sex.

The odd part is that these conservative psychologists then teach this doctrine of “gay sex is a strong temptation for everyone” to an audience composed of mostly straight people.

If someone sells something to you and then takes it back later, that is theft.

It’s safe to look things up!

Looking up the name of a crime does not mean that you’re doing that crime.

If you look up “bank robbery” that doesn’t make you guilty of bank robbery. It doesn’t even mean you’re trying to rob a bank, or even want to rob a bank. You could want to know how bank robbers work. You could be interested in being a bank guard or security engineer. You could be thinking of writing a heist story. You could want to know how safe your money is in a bank: do they get robbed all the time, or not?

Please, folks, don’t be afraid to look up words. That’s how you learn stuff.

I hear he lets all his friends access his private members.

1993 or so, before kernel 1.0. Slackware on floppies, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, now Pop!_OS.

I got a rather profitable career out of it: went into IT during/after college, then got hired into a big Silicon Valley company, stayed in that area for several years, then quit during COVID.

Hmm. I can’t tell at a glance whether a person has bad arthritis, peripheral neuropathy, hand spasms, or some other reason not to do the things that I would do with my hands. Just because something would be easy for me doesn’t mean that I can safely assume it’s easy for that other person.

In the examples I’m thinking of – like the Trader Joe’s in my city, or the military commissaries I saw as a child – you don’t get assigned to a register until that register is free; so you’re never in a position to get upset over a specific other customer’s needs.

Your grocery store should switch to a single queue dispatching to all registers, instead of one queue per register. Queueing theory and human psychology predict that this will reduce the likelihood of customers having heart attacks over another customer’s slowness.

Then it’s probably just more. Again: your post did not contain enough information for anyone to provide an answer to your question.

Antivirus doesn’t do what it promises. The only general solution for a compromised system is a clean reinstall. (This is true in Windows too.)

A process can change its name. If I wanted to make sneaky malware for Linux, I’d have it call itself more or something innocuous too.

The correct answer is “this is not enough information”. Why should a real more process eat ¼ of a core for any substantial amount of time?

One of these, “free credit report”, is additionally full of scams. Here’s the FTC on the issue.