• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I’m now wondering if OP is in a locale that flips the thousand separator with the decimal point or if their update client is proposing 2 updates and roughly 10% of a third

    The joke works for both

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    27 days ago

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

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        27 days ago

        I find it very common with opensuse. At first I was ecstatic to update, but now I just can’t care - it takes too long, so I do it every few months.

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            26 days ago

            I have an Intel Celeron laptop and an i7-4770k i7 desktop computer. Zypper is just too slow when you have many packages installed, but I require them for my work.

            Regardless, a Celeron processor should be more than enough for downloading and updating packages. I’d rather not blame the hardware for a task as trivial as that.

      • ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        There are reasonably frequent rebuilds of basically all packages as new versions of the compiler, gcc, come in

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        26 days ago

        And those countries are wrong. Using a comma as a decimal point makes no logical sense, especially in computing. And it’s ugly from an aesthetics standpoint.

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          26 days ago

          It’s only ugly because you aren’t used to it.

          Also, both systems make equally as much - or little - sense. Math notations is just using whichever symbol is commonly available and easy to write without asking whether it makes logical sense.

          Are you complaining that the factorial operator makes no logical sense either? Or the “#” symbol for the cardinality of a set?