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[โ€“] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're just using French Revolutionary decimal time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

8:99, love it. I'm going to start to use it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Or the famous saying "It's 11:95"

[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ah yes, the well known i5.90689059561

Edit: i5.90689059560851852932405837343720668462464580071706167251050905035703300440298377837242021827745839719063803418530941917054164942532445171041739

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Is this what over-clocking is?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OK, I am dumb. Can you explain what that is?

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not OP, but my guess is they're referring to the Intel math bug that some i5's had. I'm struggling to track it down, but it's basically an issue with doing long division where the floating point math would produce a very wrong result.

You can see more here at least for the bug/issue that existed in the 90's here

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m not actually, just that a binary integer that overflows at 60 couldnโ€™t exist, hence the 5.907 whatever bit length

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh, that's actually clever. And I'm saying that as a software engineer. I missed that possibility :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I should have phrased it differently, like โ€œAh yes, the well known 5.9068905956 bit integer.โ€ But thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Blud be living in 1795 France.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Took me much longer than I'm willing to admit

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm writing this comment at 9 pm. What time was it a minute ago?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I read the title in Joel's voice