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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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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.)



  • 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.



  • 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.