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The example is wrong, because they used 1.0.

But in general x-x does not have to equal 0, that is true. I'm pretty sure Nan and infinity would yield not 0.0, but Nan instead.

And if you reach x with two different calculations, e.g. x1 = a - b - c and x2 = a - c - b it is certainly not guaranteed that x1 - x2 == 0.0

Are you sure? I've never seen that inequality before.

Edit: and at least python agrees with me

print(0.1 + 0.2)  # 0.300...0004
print(1.0-1.0)  # 0.0

So, considering the speed of light is approximately 3e8m/s, a frame time of 6.4fs means light can move 1.92 micrometers per frame.

What's even more infuriating is that the panel is blue even if both wifi and cell network are tuned off!

In English, not in general. The continent is called America in lots of languages, but the country is most often referred to as the USA. Because that's the title the country has chosen for itself.

Hold up, I think we have a discrepancy regarding what we are talking about.

I'm not thinking of anything user facing. The ux would be exactly identical to what is publicly observable on reddit already. I'm talking about the possibility to dump any change to comments or posts into a cold data store for later analysis. We don't have to question or think how many users would make use of it, we can count the fraction of comments with an "edited" label on reddit.

"Roger Rodger"
"we've got clearance Clarence"
"What's our vector victor?"

From the movie airplane.

Really? What do you expect is the edit rate on sites like Lemmy and reddit? One in ten comments? I think more like one in 30 or something. That would increase the storage costs by 3% and a small amount of processing power.

Hosting costs are dwarfed by media storage anyway.

Are updates authenticated? Or can I send an update to lemmy.world from 123.123.123.123 (which is not the IP address of feddit.de) that you have edited your comment to say "I don't like pizza"?

If updates are not authenticated this really could be a big problem.

Knowing how comments get changed is immensely interesting data. And if you design a system from the ground up, adding the functionality to save edits in the backend does not take much effort at all.

Thanks for doing the math.

36 different blocks of time, 1-12 and A to Z, right?

Not 1-12, but 0-9.

Edit: now that I've spelled it out, O/0 and 1/I/L (for uppercase/lowercase letters) may be problematic.

"we as people" - citation needed, lol.

But I don't disagree with you. Of course we'd have to switch from kelvin to ... Was it Rankine? ... To keep everything consistent and some physics constants would have to change as well.

The advantage of the metric system is the scaling. The base value does not matter. We could measure everything in feet for all I care, but no inches or miles then! Only kilofeet, centifeet, millifeet, etc! And we need a better distinction between force and weight than "pound" and "pound-force" - seriously, whoever came up with must have had negative creativity.