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[–] reimufumo@lemmy.ca 50 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] rxin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Naturally when you only update .144 of the source code

[–] unmarketableplushie@pawb.social 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

I believe that's what they call fractional updates.