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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

30.333739068902037589 years.

ya know somewhere is one person who will never forgive themselves.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago

remember seeing bumper stickers: “Intel inside, don’t divide.”

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 9 months ago

There was a joke that the successor to the RU-486 contraceptive pill was the RU-Pentium, and it worked by preventing the embryo from dividing correctly

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

This still stresses me out because my software is mission critical, safety related, and blindly assumes that the calculations will be correct.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Huh, I practically only know Intel as having defects and vulnerabilities, but I didn't know this had such a long history...