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  • You are a fintech dev using floating point? And your advice is to encode things as strings?

    This is why I got out of fintech.

    (I am sorry, I know there are horrors and I am sure I am not familiar with your exact scenario.)

    Edit: just for anyone who passes by: try to stick with integers in a currency’s smallest unit of division. (This is only one small bit of this problem, but the number of times I have seen currency values in floating point makea me psychotic.)



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    The real problem I see all the time is people keep cutting this story short, the rest goes:

    Workers: oh fuck no, I’m out, see ya.

    Capital: wait, not like that. Please. What do you want? We can talk. Please … please come back.

    Weird to me that last bit gets left off, especially in subs like Socialism and Work Reform.

    Don’t forget how the story ends.

    Edit: everyone commentong below about how the story can’t go this way is a reason solidarity and unity are so hard. Capital wants very badly for workers to forget that workers are where the power is…Keep telling youself all the reasons you don’t matter if you want, but not everyone believes their bullshit.



  • For the operatives put in danger and/or killed, it was worth human life?

    You seem to be ignoring that Assange either knowingly or unknowingly risked peoples’ lives, people who had often given those lives into great risk in service of their country.

    When the leaks first happened, I was supportive of Wikileaks (a natural position for an anti-war person like me). Later, when it was revealed that there had been no or little due diligence to ensure the information had been vetted and scrubbed, I realized how extreme it can be on both ends of the political spectrum.

    Stop trying to paint this with some large political brush.

    Assange is not a hero. The US government is not innocent.









  • Gonna just stream of consciousness some stuff here:

    Been thinking lately, especially as I have been self-hosting more, how much work is just managing data on disk.

    Which disk? Where does it live? How does the data transit from here to there? Why isn’t the data moving properly?

    I am not sure what this means, but it makes me feel like we are missing some important ideas around data management at personal scale.



  • What would you think of someone who goes door to door trying to convince you a blubbery clown rules the universe from planet zebulon?

    Is that a normal person just doing normal person things?

    For the non-religious, there is no difference between the person above and a relgious believer.

    I think it’s reasonable to ask why people still hold unfounded beliefs with the greater interconnectedness of the world making it pretty plain that not all these religions can be divinely inspired truth, so many of them are necessarily imaginary.