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Re:Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary by QuantumNomad_ on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:09PM (#50319087)
That is indeed the chemical reaction that creates rust, and they intentionally named their OS such for that very reason, as they are writing this OS in the Rust programming language. But I am not sure why you’d just comment that and nothing more. For a moment I thought you might be a bot instructed to “write a relevant comment for this title”. But your other comments in other threads seem human to me.
Re:Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary by wheremiah on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:37PM (#50320485)
Alternative take: I did look up that exact word while reading the article. It’s been a minute since I saw it in a chemistry context. For me, it was nice to see someone else with the same question and that they took the time to post a concise definition.
Re:Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary by hurricanepootis on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:25PM (#50322200)
Yes, a lot of people who don't deal with chem stuff a lot of the time may not know what Redox means or may it have forgotten.