Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars
by pklausler on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @04:30PM
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/sbin/mattd
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Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars
by Waterluvian on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:57PM
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Can I get in on the joke? :)
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars
by tarmstrong on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:00PM
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They're making a joke about the misspelling of Matt Damon. "Daemon" is a computing term [0] and /sbin/ is a folder that you might want to put a Matt Daemon in. (Also, daemons are often named with a "d" at the end, like "etcd" or "mattd".)
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars
by LeifCarrotson on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:01PM
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The actor is Matt Damon. Parent spelled it Matt Daemon, as in a hypothetical *nix process at /sbin/mattd
If this were Reddit we could keep this going until we had a meme about Matt Damon running in the background of movies, and a whole corpus of images where he's been photoshopped to be doing just that.
Now I'm kind of regretting this conversation isn't on Reddit.
You can fix that, you know.
Yeah, but I'm not one to force conversations. Maybe I can gently steer it the next time a Matt Damon relevant post comes up in gifs, assuming I get there before it's swamped in comments.
In the meantime, I guess I could make some gifs. Because that's a much better use of my time than research, learning, or taxes...