sadcoconut

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Not a direct answer to the question but one thing not noted in other answers is in computing you often work at a higher precision than you need for your final answer as the errors tend to increase each time you do a mathematical operation.

In the world of reasonably powerful hardware (laptops, desktops, servers, smart phones etc.) we'd typically work with 64 bit floating point numbers which gives pi to 15 digits (I think, not at a real computer now so can't check). because it's simple to do so even though we don't need the full precision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Please report back

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I envy you. My microwave, oven, car and others all apparently have to have a clock but aren't capable of switching automatically.

I'm not sure why, in the 21st century, we have clocks that can tell the wrong time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've heard it suggested that they didn't expect to get as far as they did into Israel and they barely expected to get past the border wall. If that's the case they may not have planned what to do when they did and so there may be no grand strategy behind some or all of it.

I guess we'll never know.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I'm not a big important decision maker but if I always came across your website when searching for answers about software X and your GitHub when looking for code for software X I would go to my manager and say "why don't we just pay this person to sort it out, they seem to know their stuff" and there's a fair chance we'd do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm always tempted to get one but can't quite justify the purchase. What difference does it make to your quality of life?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Chail is currently being held at Broadmoor high-security hospital and will remain there until he is psychologically well enough to serve his sentence. 

Doesn't give the poor guy much motivation to get better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Took me longer than I'd care to admit to figure out Red Bull vodka is another name for vodka Red Bull.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I used to feel the same about settings pages but I've noticed I'm so used to the auto save settings way I now get annoyed at the opposite - when I change some settings, exit the page and then discover I've lost the changes because I was meant to click save.

I guess either way can work fine it just needs to be properly designed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is useful insight but I think it's important to remember that, as messed up as it sounds, different companies and their lawyers will interpret laws differently. It will be a risk vs reward calculation for each company. They won't consider if it's illegal or not, they'll consider whether they're likely to be prosecuted, what the fines would be, what the reputational damage would be, whether they have more lawyers than the government of a moderately sized country etc.

I probably agree with the interpretation you've given and would like the governments to go after companies that think otherwise but that sadly isn't how it works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd suggest not calling anything out. People may well not hear exactly what you said and, even if they do, are unlikely to be able to process the information quickly enough. They'll end up guessing what to do and that will often result in them doing the 'wrong' thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could you provide a explanation for someone not in the US?

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