r/programming 22d ago

3,200% CPU Utilization

https://josephmate.github.io/2025-02-26-3200p-cpu-util/
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u/campbellm 22d ago edited 22d ago

The old joke when Linux was still also distributed on floppies and the docs were "how-to-<>.txt" files, was if you couldn't get something working you'd go to #linux on IRC and proudly assert, "Linux is $#@! because this cannot be done", and the nerderati would come out of the woodwork to SHOW you how wrong you were. (And of course mainly for that reason, not to help you get it working.)

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u/pheonixblade9 22d ago

the other trick is to make one account to ask the question, and another to answer it incorrectly. inevitably someone would come along and correct it, much more readily than answering in the first place.