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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 23 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Can someone explain this joke to me

"I'm writing a recursive method with threads to optimize the CPU usage in a 0.02%"

I understand everything apart from the "in a 0.02%". What does that mean? How can something be in a percentage?

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[–] obosob@feddit.uk 39 points 3 years ago

It's a nonsensical statement to us programmers too.

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[–] Sheik@lemmy.world 24 points 3 years ago

I think they meant « by ».

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It's a double joke. For programmers, it's pretty useless unless your in high performance computing.

If you're on the nitty gritty OS or CPU itself, 0.02% optimization can mean significant improvememt of different things but because it is otherwise unitless, it is equally useless to the reader.

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[–] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago

“In a .02%” is nonsensical. They meant “by”. So it’s just a fail, not a joke.

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