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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.)







  • I’ll say that this reaction does nothing to make me think you are approaching this with any objectivity.

    The argument, to me, seems to be that it’s impossible in the modern world as things stand to actually totally avoid animal products. That would seem like an issue that Veganism should be concerned with.

    I see your point, I think, about it being an individual choice. But though I have heard of things like vegan shoes, I can see how saying those are vegan when you may not control all the inputs seems problematic.

    Regardless, your response was so unpleasant that I don’t think I’m much interested in continuing.









  • andyburke@fedia.iotoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlHow do we tell him ?
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    3 months ago

    I get the joke.

    But if, like me, you actually feel this here’s how I got away from it: make sure you actually understand things.

    Read the error message over and over again, look up the words, understand what it is saying.

    If something isn’t working, start reading the code and making sure you understand what each line is doing.

    It will feel incredibly slow and painful at first. Eventually you will strengthen those.muscles, however, and it’ll become second nature.

    Then you can cut and paste with confidence! 🤣