RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly Absurd

Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by jaggederest on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:52PM (#50395739)

Dimensional analysis is a superpower honestly. Even in a software engineering career it's saved me from massive issues quite routinely

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by selimthegrim on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:17PM (#50396114)

Any war stories?

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by jaggederest on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:32PM (#50397200)

Requests per second, bytes per request, bytes per second should all match up very closely under dimensional analysis or something is drastically wrong ;)

Little's law is another related phenomenon that is super critical. Measuring things when the units don't match has bitten me more than once.

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by selimthegrim on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:52PM (#50397471)

Concur on Little's law

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by vpmadd52huq on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:29PM (#50396295)

Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3038/

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by dllu on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:39PM (#50396435)

Also: https://xkcd.com/687/

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by NetMageSCW on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:05PM (#50400245)

The HP 48G / 50G provides incredible unit handling. My main use for it these days.

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