@Felthry So, you start with clives, turn them into olives, then combine those... and you get lives! It's beautiful!

explaining the joke 

So, when you're compiling C programs you start out with .c files.

You then compile these into .o "object" files.

Then you link them together into the actual program, which on Unix doesn't have any file extension.

So "c" -> "o" -> "".

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re: explaining the joke 

@IceWolf Just make sure the clives are big if you're dealing with cheap junk that threatens the lives yeah i don't know how to make this joke work
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explaining the failed joke re: explaining the joke 

@IceWolf bigclive is a youtube person who does teardowns of sketchy, safety-last electronics he gets for Suspiciously Cheap from ebay and/or aliexpress. He frequently manages to find innocuous-looking objects that have exposed metal live at mains voltage.
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re: explaining the failed joke re: explaining the joke 

@Felthry Oh! That explains things, thanks. :3

Also explains why it went /right/ over my fluffy head. I don't watch YouTube. :P

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