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0 pointsreaperducer5y ago0 comments

Wasn't this solved back in the days of floppy disk OS installation?

You have one progress bar showing progress for this floppy, and another showing progress for the entire operation.

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That is indeed a solution :)

I was merely constructing a case for using fancy progress bar calculations. And conflating two non related operations into one might be one of those.

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0 pointsreaperducer5y ago0 comments

Wasn't this solved back in the days of floppy disk OS installation?

You have one progress bar showing progress for this floppy, and another showing progress for the entire operation.

That is indeed a solution :)

I was merely constructing a case for using fancy progress bar calculations. And conflating two non related operations into one might be one of those.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse