It’s a joke, but when exposing a number the number of left digits transmit the confidence you have in your number. 0.1 tells you that the “real” number is 0.1a, where 0 <= a < 5. 0.10000000000 is giving you a lot more information than 0.1
Now I’m thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can’t find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.
Now I’m thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can’t find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.
It’s not just GNU/Linux what people show in unixporn: some rice macOS, some rice BSD, and some even rice Android. What do they have in common? They’re all based on UNIX.
If you mean literally BSD, then yes, it’s a direct UNIX decendant based on the same source tree. However, it’s been discontinued 30 years ago.
If you mean one of the *BSDs (Freebsd, netbsd, openbsd), then the relationship is more similar to that of linux, although there is still actual BSD code involved.
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I think you meant to put that decimal a bit further left…
Sorry, yes: 0000000000.10000000000%
Thanks, it makes more sense now.
What? Its the same as .1%, or. 01? .00000000001 would be what you’d want no?
It was a joke, I think
Yeah it was a joke.
I doubt it, looks like a mistake. It’s ok to make mistakes, even when they are funny
It’s a joke, but when exposing a number the number of left digits transmit the confidence you have in your number. 0.1 tells you that the “real” number is 0.1a, where 0 <= a < 5. 0.10000000000 is giving you a lot more information than 0.1
Very neat! Thank you for that little tidbit.
Surely you mean 0.0999999931082% ?
No, they did not
0000000000.1% = 0.1%
Now I’m thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can’t find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.
Now I’m thinking of all the poor people who like neatly laid out documents but can’t find what they want when looking for visually pleasing layout techniques.
and why Unix? Linux ain’t unix.
It’s not just GNU/Linux what people show in unixporn: some rice macOS, some rice BSD, and some even rice Android. What do they have in common? They’re all based on UNIX.
technically not, rather, they’re unix-like since unix was a proprietary system
Thanks for the heads up! I meant in philosphy, not necesarily in the code.
Ohhh I only ever saw linux, sorry. So BSD is based on Unix but is not unix too?
Thanks for explaining.
BSD is Unix
Unix is like franchising: you can be perfectly SUS, yet no money = not Unix
Depends on what you mean by BSD.
If you mean literally BSD, then yes, it’s a direct UNIX decendant based on the same source tree. However, it’s been discontinued 30 years ago.
If you mean one of the *BSDs (Freebsd, netbsd, openbsd), then the relationship is more similar to that of linux, although there is still actual BSD code involved.
Source: Former FreeBSD user.
oh I get it. Thanks|!|
Linux (and Android) are not based on Unix, they are Unix-like. And macOS is based on BSD.
X doesn’t care what the kernel is.