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  • NABDad@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlcrowdStrikeIsAVerbNow
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    4 months ago

    On Friday, as we were running around the hospital where we work trying to get every computer working again, we were following the work-around to rename the Crowdstrike folder under C:\Windows\system32\drivers to “bad-CrowdStrike”.

    When my coworker was typing the rename command, instead of typing “cro TAB”, he started typing “clo TAB”. He’d ask me why it wasn’t finding it, and I’d point out the typo.

    I started saying, it’s not “CloudStrike”, it’s “CrowdStrike”.

    By the end of the day, we were both a little loopy. I started typing “CloudStrike”, and cursing him out for screwing with my head. By the end of the day I wasn’t sure what it was either.

    CloudStrike

    CrownStrike

    ClownStrike

    It occurred to us that CrowdStrike is an absolutely terrible name. It sounds like a terrorist attack. Of course, it felt like one on Friday.



  • It’s not that complex.

    A mutation happens. It can result in either a disadvantage that prevents the plant from surviving to reproduce or an advantage that helps the plant survive to reproduce.

    There’s no “knowing” involved. There is no intent on the part of the plant. It’s just random. You’re seeing the descendants of the plants that got an advantageous mutation.

    What you’re not seeing in your yard are the billions of different plants that never survived because their mutation was a disadvantage.