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> The unminimize tool lets you ‘rehydrate’ your image into a familiar Ubuntu server package set, suitable for command line interaction. Nice 'Three body proble
by FlyingSnake 8y ago
> The unminimize tool lets you ‘rehydrate’ your image into a familiar Ubuntu server package set, suitable for command line interaction.
Nice 'Three body problem' reference they've sneaked in.
- YuriNiyazov 8y agoWhat’s this? Please explain to the uninitiated
- sidmitra 8y agoIt's a reference to the sci-fi book The three body problem by Liu Cixin[1]. In that ta mysterious game about an alien planet where its population can be dehydrated to survive harsh conditions which could last millenia, and then re-hydrated when the conditions are right. Although i think the terms hydrate-dehydrate are not unheard of in tech stacks for example in a django REST framework called tastypie to denote serialization-deserialization of data. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
- sli 8y agoYeah it's a pretty widely used term. ReactDOM has a hydrate() method[0] used to display something on the frontend that has already been rendered by the backend. [0]: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom.html#hydrate https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom.html#hydrate
- Guillaume86 8y agoI know the reference but in this case I would consider "rehydrate" as the standard term for these kind of things.