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Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time (lemmy.world)
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[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 26 points 3 days ago

I added banana (for scale) and it's on the up and up: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,crap*,bastard,penguin,banana

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Either they have paragraphs of oddly specific insults or banana pi is becoming popular.

[-] sus@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

yep, it's almost all banana pi, and at least 4 different 'models' of it it seems. But the word is also used in some string processing tests and as an example comment of how suffix arrays work..

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