Been working with kotlinx.atomicfu for a while now and always wondered what the "FU" part stands for in the name.
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louiscad
10/31/2020, 10:10 PM
Field updater.
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cedric
11/01/2020, 2:52 AM
The serious answer is probably as in "Kung fu", the way of doing things.
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cedric
11/01/2020, 2:52 AM
The less so serious is "Fuck you"
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cedric
11/01/2020, 2:52 AM
Penn and Teller use this quite effectively in the "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" show, where they give a trophy to people who fool them with prominent letters "F U".
cedric
11/01/2020, 2:53 AM
They are supposed to mean "Fool Us", but they're not fooling anyone 🙂
cedric
11/01/2020, 2:53 AM
(apologies in advance if you're not based in North America and what I just said is probably nonsense to you 🙂 )
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louiscad
11/01/2020, 8:46 AM
I'm not based in North America, but it doesn't fool me, I get the joke. A little bit of fun doesn't F us 😉