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Womble

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  • Crowds chant outlawed anti-Putin songs in rare St Petersburg protest

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  • You should probably look up where "Tankie" originates if you think Stalin wasnt a communist and calling people defending actions of non-communists tankies is wrong.

  • Look how the pro-climate change media turns on Greta Thunberg now that she’s an adult, left the “activist-inc” plantation and attacked the real enemy of humanity.

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  • Yup, a small country run by genocidal maniacs is a tragedy obviously, but it is not worse than the looming disaster that is threatening to breakdown society worldwide. Portraying the former as the "real enemy" over the later is pretty twisted.

  • Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  • Assuming you are just a regular person using Windows, you are not their customer, at best you're a handy side revenue stream and data source. Their actual customers are giant enterprises who are actively trying to fire people and smaller business locked into their ecosystem by needeing to interact with other businesses (who are also locked into their ecosystem).

  • Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World

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  • I'm not even sure that IP being owned by non-natural persons is the problem, for example I could see a coop collectively owning copyrights/patents relevant to their work. The problem is the frankly ridiculous amount of time granted for copyrights and obvious methods being patented.

    Change both of those and you keep the benefit of innovative individuals/small groups having legal protection from large corporations muscling in and stealing their work and get rid of most of the damage done by the current system.

  • The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

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  • You do accept that bad software has been written, yes? and that some of that software is performing important functions? So how is saying "It needs to be written better in the first place" of any use at all when discussing legacy software?

  • Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling to Earth at an alarming rate

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  • No, but given there are aproximately 6000 impacts a year from rocks of various sizes making it all the way to the ground a handful of extra impacts isnt going to make any significant difference. Maybe your chance of being hit by space debris in your lifetime rises from one in a billion to 1.1 in a billion.

  • TIL I'm in the top 5% of drinkers in the US. Whoo!

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  • You're misinterpreting the graph. That graph is number of drinks per day the OP's post was 5 in one day at any time in the past month or 15 over a week. 15/week is ~2 a day on everage which is at the threshhold of unmodified risk based on that graph.

  • Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight

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  • You're missing the key word there which is "overnight". Sudden dramatic changes rarely work out well for anyone other than people speculating (or having inside knowledge) on where the cards will fall.

    Phasing out landlords over, say, 3 years would be a great idea, banning them tomorrow would not be.

  • The most important person in Britain you’ve never heard of

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  • I think the point there is that the government of the day cant just overrule him by saying so. If it comes down to it, in an supply emergency his word goes until the government either change the law or get one of these "Order in Council" directives signed off by the king.

    It doesnt mean that much as it seems very unlikely that the monarch would refuse the PM something like that, but crises are where the unthinkable happens.

  • Michelle Mone demands Keir Starmer ends 'vendetta' against her in letter to PM

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  • Look she's been made a peer of the realm, it is unacceptable to attempt to punish her for committing crimes. What's more its discriminatory as the state would never try to prosecute old money peers!

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • No you spouted some stuff about "trust me I've seen it" (almost certainly relating to using single floats) then an irrelevant tangent about how ten doesnt divde cleanly into three and how thats a problem for floats, when you have exactly the same problem with fixed point/integer division.

    Do you have an actual example of where double precission floats would cause an issue? Preferably an example that could be run to demonstrate it.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • And so instead of explain why and clarify any misunderstanding you chose to snarkily insult my intelligence, very mature.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • I fail to see a difference there, 10.0/3 = 3.33333333333 which you round down to 3.33 (or whatever fraction of a cent you are using) as you say for all accounts then have to deal with the leftovers, if you are using a fixed decimal as the article sugests you get the same issue, if you are using integer fractions of a cent, say milicents you get 1000000/3 = 333333 which gives you the exact same rounding error.

    This isnt a problem with the representation of numbers its trying to split a quantity into unequal parts using division. (And it should be noted the double is giving the most accurate representation of 10/3 dollars here, and so would be most accurate if this operation was in the middle of a series of calcuations rather than about to be immediately moving money).

    As I said before, doubles probably arent the best way to handle money if you are dealing with high volumes of or complex transactions, but they are not the waiting disaster that single floats are and using a double representation then converting to whole cents when you need to actually move real money (like a sale) is fine.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • You are underestimating how precice doubles are. Summing up one million doubles randomly selected from 0 to one trillion only gives a cumulative rounding error of ~60, that coud be one million transactions with 0-one billion dollars with 0.1 cent resolution and ending up off by a total of 6 cents. Actually it would be better than that as you could scale it to something like thousands or millions of dollars to keep you number ranger closer to 1.

    Sure if you are doing very high volumes you probably dont want to do it, but for a lot of simple cases doubles are completely fine.

    Edit: yeah using the same million random numbers but dividing them all by 1000 before summing (so working in kilodollars rather than dollars) gave perfect accuracy, no rounding errors at all after one million 1e-3 to 1e9 double additions.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • Single floats sure, but doubles give plenty of accuracy unless you absolutely need zero error.

    For example geting 1000 random 12 digit ints, multiplying them by 1e9 as floats, doing pairwise differences between them and summing the answers and dividing by 1e9 to get back to the ints gives a cumulative error of 1 in 10^16. assuming your original value was in dollars thats roughly 0.001cent in a billion dollar total error. That's going deliberately out of the way to make transactions as perverse as possible.

  • The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician

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  • Well for a start felonies arent a thing in the UK, and havent been for 60 years, but also if it is genuinely due to error and HMRC dont think its been done deliberately as tax evasion then yes you can just self report and pay the tax owed plus late fees.

  • The Unbearable Inefficiency of Fossil Fuels

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  • You recharge your storage device (a metal tank) by pouring in more liquid over 30 seconds. That ease of use combined with how energy dense oil derivatives are is such a massive benefit for them.

    The problem with fossil fuels is that they are slowly choking our planet, except for that they are phenomenal energy sources on who's backs the modern world was built. That is why it is so hard for us to transition away from them.

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  • Its not binary but it is strongly clustered into two groups with a small number of outliers from those groups.

  • How huge London far-right march lifted the lid on a toxic transatlantic soup

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  • Corbyn in the UK is the main counterexample I can think of, but even then that was for less than five years in opposition and with the entire political and media establishment conspiring to bring him down, including the right of his own party (and in fairness, he repeatedly shot himself in the foot and handed them easy wins).