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Rolling release rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (3 children)

i spent way too much time trying to figure out how you can have .144 of an update

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I believe that's what they call fractional updates.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago

that's the hotpatch which fixes the floating point number issue

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Naturally when you only update .144 of the source code

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I like that that implies that the entire source code for the operating system and all its packages are being ship of Theseus'd twice in addition to that