From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RV5Zo-0006MR-3G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:05:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D32421C249; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7F121C238 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:02:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faaq2 with SMTP id q2so1913770faa.40 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:02:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=AGzUhDgjUKHyJTbKdx4jIQqRsaB5xlsSMUFDZPyZixw=; b=iwGEIwFzILbiUptah+159ctbs4s3EnyOWawujG56IDgkS+Hte9wAsfoo7Ua8H3GSH8 rNAi8OT+SuCwtb1ps8Tq0O2dByaIREa0bKEzvwMbPWdjjylVC8Mf/4SSrNvT3rhqY3Cp T0uCXp+QzIHxuBVOgZAEiPOyweuYnTVlJAWVU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.205.81.141 with SMTP id zy13mr46074877bkb.50.1322503344115; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.14.7 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:02:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:02:24 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l ) From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: fdc228b8-71fc-4cc0-a574-0a48236a723f X-Archives-Hash: 688448cf3896f2201d8050003c162c22 On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term >> 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is >> really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin >> I simply cannot find using Google? > > No, I think it's the same racist term borrowed from the car > tuning/customizing world. It was explained to me as coming from Western fans of Japanese sports cars. In particular, the subset of those who would see or slap a brand sticker on a vehicle and assume it meant it'd go faster. Reminds me of the time I saw "F150" roughly painted on the side of a dilapidated old truck. The implication wrt Gentoo was that people would apply CFLAGS across their entire system without an actual understanding of their impact or what they did, under the assumption that it would make their computers go faster. A more recent way of describing this behavior is "cargo culting", and I've seen it in largely in discussions of economics and pseudo-science. -- :wq