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I think floating point would give the assumption that it has nothing to do with meatspace, but it would allow room for a fascinating surprise if it did! I vote
by vmception 5y ago
I think floating point would give the assumption that it has nothing to do with meatspace, but it would allow room for a fascinating surprise if it did!
I vote for keeping it as is.
- hnlmorg 5y agoIf we're following HN guidelines correctly, the title should be 'Dolphin Progress Report: August 2021' -- what has been submitted has been editorialised.
- minitoar 5y agoI was immediately trying to figure out if it somehow had to do with a stop watch being used in meatspace.
- chromatin 5y agoCounterpoint: I assumed real life scoreboard.
- Agentlien 5y agoI overlooked the URL. Seeing that or the original title I would have understood what this was. But now, my first guess was actually that this was about some much debated football match and that the floating point bug was present in some software used by the referees when reviewing replays.
- tokai 5y agoFootball referees didn't review replays in 2013.
- thom 5y agoI can personally attest to creating and fixing floating point bugs to do with real life football games.