Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:58:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980815214055.1275G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199808160045.RAA15910@usr07.primenet.com>
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[Cc: trimmed and moved to -chat] On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > The difference between accuracy and precision is often hard to grasp. > > > > Actually, it's high-school science, now. At least around here. :) > > It's the secret they tell you after you get your PhD, here in the US... Grade 10 science. I still remember getting a kick out of the poor example sucker who was very precise throwing darts, but whose accuracy sucked. It's also reviewed in each of the proceeding sciences (except possibly biology). I checked with my sister and she tells me that this year her class (gr.10) skipped it (it was on the exam review but then removed when the teacher realized he had forgotten to teach it. :) > For those, the penalty is that when you type "make" again, an > unnecessary compilation of an object may occur to make it > "at least one second older". And so on, until, in a string of machine-generated source files, each has a descending time. Okay, okay, so there aren't many places where I use strings of machine-generated source files. :-) > The FS layout is not permitted to change; that's one of our major > constraints. Can you imagine "well, we converted 98% of your > hard drive, but you don't have room for these new indows here...."? Bah. You could calculate the room required. (Point stands, "FS layout is not permitted to change"). -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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