Vaguely related:
3K: kitanai, kiken, kitsui. (dirty, dangerous, demanding).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty,_dangerous_and_demeaning
System D
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Re: System D
#22There is a "Système D" DIY magazine here in France, since 1924. I don't know if it is predated by the term or originated it. I remember that there is a big pile of old issues in my grandfather attic.
That's crazy talk. Nothing actualy exist until the anglosphere takes note of its existence.
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#23"System D, arguably, reached its heyday in the Victorian-era railway hotels, where the menus were huge and it was not unusual for an extra two hundred guests to show up wanting, say, the Fricasse of Lobster Thermidor — for which only fifty portions were available. Suddenly, Thermidor for fifty was transformed into Thermidor for two hundred. Don't ask how. You don't want to know."
fun fact: Thermidor - after which Sauce Thermidor and derived dishes like Lobster Themidor are named, is a month in the French Republican Calendar, specifically: the second month of summer, going approx. from mid-July to mid-August.
Even more fun fact. "Thermidor" as well as the other months on the Republican Calendar don't have any root word. They were made up whole cloth and intended to sound like Greek or Latin.
Re: System D
#24"System D, arguably, reached its heyday in the Victorian-era railway hotels, where the menus were huge and it was not unusual for an extra two hundred guests to show up wanting, say, the Fricasse of Lobster Thermidor — for which only fifty portions were available. Suddenly, Thermidor for fifty was transformed into Thermidor for two hundred. Don't ask how. You don't want to know."
A longer excerpt available online here: https://www.denverpost.com/2006/05/26/the-nasty-bits-by-anth...
Re: System D
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
From https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ : > Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d. And since systemd manages the system, it's called systemd. > Système D is not an acceptable spelling and something completely different (though kinda fitting). Wikipedia says that it somehow relates to Systeme D, but they don't have any good referenc…
but they do have a good reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#cite_note-control-cent... which eventually leads to https://web.archive.org/web/20130114034246/http://0pointer.d... System D [in French, Système D] is a shorthand term that refers back to the French word débrouillard[1]. The verb se débrouiller means "to untangle." [...] That sounds just about perfect to be honest "untangling the boot process" -…
Wikipedia claims the name was inspired by, though, which is inaccurate.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
From https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ : > Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d. And since systemd manages the system, it's called systemd. > Système D is not an acceptable spelling and something completely different (though kinda fitting). Wikipedia says that it somehow relates to Systeme D, but they don't have any good referenc…
but they do have a good reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#cite_note-control-cent... which eventually leads to https://web.archive.org/web/20130114034246/http://0pointer.d... System D [in French, Système D] is a shorthand term that refers back to the French word débrouillard[1]. The verb se débrouiller means "to untangle." [...] That sounds just about perfect to be honest "untangling the boot process" -…
But that line is from a comment by "sam" to that article.
So, really nothing do with Poettering et al.
Re: System D
#27There is a "Système D" DIY magazine here in France, since 1924. I don't know if it is predated by the term or originated it. I remember that there is a big pile of old issues in my grandfather attic.
That's crazy talk. Nothing actualy exist until the anglosphere takes note of its existence.
Can you please not post unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait? We're trying for something different here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Incidentally, HN has had countless wonderful and interesting threads about things from outside "the anglosphere". As HN is an English-language site one would expect those to be less common, but they are well-represented, well-loved, and welcome.
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#28Re: System D
#29Vaguely related: 3K: kitanai, kiken, kitsui. (dirty, dangerous, demanding). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty,_dangerous_and_demeaning
and Mike Rowe, presenter of the shows Dirty Jobs and the series Somebody's Gotta Do It
Re: System D
#30Brilliant. Apart from Freeling's "The Kitchen Book / The Cook Book" système D appears throughout French culture including the record "Système D" by Les Rita Mitsouko. It stands there encouraging those who get it to understand and overcome despite one's being knee-deep in sewage.