• Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      It’s a nonsensical statement to us programmers too.

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

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