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[โ€“] regul@lemm.ee 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're just using French Revolutionary decimal time.

[โ€“] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ah yes, the well known i5.90689059561

Edit: i5.90689059560851852932405837343720668462464580071706167251050905035703300440298377837242021827745839719063803418530941917054164942532445171041739

[โ€“] whostosay@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Is this what over-clocking is?

[โ€“] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Tyfud@lemmy.world 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€“] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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€“] Tyfud@lemmy.world 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€“] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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€“] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 36 points 1 month ago

Blud be living in 1795 France.

[โ€“] lugal@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Took me much longer than I'm willing to admit

[โ€“] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] babyincubi@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[โ€“] GroupNebula563@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I read the title in Joel's voice