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@GromBeestje @nixCraft This should also cover the temperature inside a supernova, so we are safe on that side ;)   @GromBeestje @nixCraft wish I’d had access to this before I had to read a whole book to find out https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539739/your-computer-is-on-fire/  @GromBeestje @nixCraft I'm old enough to remember when computers were room sized and parts of it could be on fire while others continued to work relatively fine. There used to be an option to stop disks fast in the event that they were on fire. @ianturton @GromBeestje @nixCraft  @GromBeestje @nixCraft how do you distinguish "some other value" from the temperature? should be re-written in Rust and return a `Result` element @JackEric @GromBeestje @nixCraft Yeah that's what I was thinking. Maybe negative 10 Kelvin, below absolute zero? If C++, should return a boolean with temperature as a pass by reference parameter.   Okay, I just googled it and it's real. I don't know whether to be delighted or horrified. Also (and sorry for the monologuing), I once witnessed a demo of the original dual-processor BeBox where the presenter showed how to turn off one or the other of the cores from the settings interface. He then turned off both of the cores, and it did exactly what you'd expect. While the computer rebooted, he segued on to how robust the filesystem was. So, on reflection, this seems pretty on-brand for them. |
@GromBeestje @nixCraft It's critically important to run this in a separate process to HCF()!