• sunnie@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

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

    • rxin
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      3 months ago

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

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        3 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

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      I believe that’s what they call fractional updates.