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14:09:32
pjb
Which reminds me about a silly woke point in AppleTV's Foundation (let's name the culprits). Where it's mentionned that base ten is too "assuming" and there's also base 12 (with some advantages) or base 27 (which counts more body parts), etc. I should mention that in French, we counted in base twenty originally. That's why we have still 70 = soixante+dix (trois-vingt+dix), 80 = quatre-vingt, 90 = quatre-vingt+dix; We had deux-vingt
14:09:32
pjb
for 40, deux-vingt+dix for 50, and trois-vingt for 60… And of course, that's why we don't have dix-un, dix-deux, etc, but onze, douze, treize, etc, (hmm, like English).
19:40:03
wasamasa
the 5 minutes figure is at best about checking for rebuilds and even then once a rebuild takes longer than 5 minutes...
19:40:21
wasamasa
for example I opened up a random project and see "Waiting in the queue. Position: 1849."