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A program should not hold memory anymore when it is no longer running. If it did, that would be an OS memory leak.
This was clever!
Do you have a bunch of textbooks that you would recommend reading? :)
Re:Gocker: Docker implemented in 1.3k lines of Go on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:19AM (#23562806)
> If you want to compare it to anything, it's runc, but that's not a good headline :)

I don’t know, gunc is a pretty good name.

Re:Erdős–Bacon number on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:22AM (#22309481)
I prefer the sum, as it describes the minimum-length path containing all participants. It seems like the intuitive expansion of the concept of the Erdös number.
I personally tried this. Pregnant silence.
Re:How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”? on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:46PM (#22173861)
Twitter does require your phone number to make the account sometimes. (I suppose if it can’t determine enough about you.) Recently I was able to make one, only to be locked out a few minutes later until I “confirmed my identity” by providing a phone number.