explanation, re: OH, wtf, sun microsystems, diapers@kitten so, you know how on x86, if you throw a fault while entering a fault handler, it's considered a double fault, and it's Bad, and if you throw a fault while entering the double fault handler, it resets the machine?
so on SPARC V9, there's 6 levels of that. well, rather, an implementation-dependent number of levels. on CPUs that implement the virtualization extensions, it's more!
what does that have to do with diapers? well uh. if you consider a fault to be an accident, then a fault handler is kind of a diaper. and a double fault is kind of a diaper fault. so kinda like if your diaper leaks?
i'm sure that from here you can reconstruct the chain of riffing on each other's jokes that led to the post in question
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