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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26533086

Linux kernel 6.12 is one of the most significant releases of the year, delivering a feature nearly 20 years in the making: true real-time computing.

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[–] CameronDev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't help that its not well named, realtime makes it sound fast.

One of the few things I remembered from my degree was the realtime programming course, because we got to program a model train set in Ada, on a 286(?), running on floppies. This was in ~2015, so ancient hardware even then, and it was slow, but it was "realtime".

Interestingly, my compsci degree never covered O notation, so that I've had to pick up along the way :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Interestingly, my compsci degree never covered O notation, so that I've had to pick up along the way :/

Really‽ That's a shame. It's one of the topics that, in my programming career, was regularly valuable and used. That, set theory, and discrete math have an been broadly applicable even in the most banal applications. It's a shame if it's not part of the CIS curriculum at some universities.