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There are lot of things that are bizarrely still hard in 2024. Formatting floating points as strings with maximum precision, for example. I sometimes find mys
by mkoubaa 2y ago
There are lot of things that are bizarrely still hard in 2024.
Formatting floating points as strings with maximum precision, for example.
I sometimes find myself rooting for another AI winter so that more talented computer scientists have nothing better to do than to go back and clean up these messes
- _kb 2y agoAt least we've moved past hash-collision heaters and integrity checks of monkey picture URLs.
- arnaudsm 2y agoNo one ever got promoted for reducing tech debt. It's better to ship fast and forget, and cash out before the system collapses years later. Unfortunately this is not exclusive to software.
- mkoubaa 2y agoAs a counterexample, I've been promoted for reducing tech debt
- mananaysiempre 2y ago> Formatting floating points as strings with maximum precision, for example. That’s not hard to do[1]—rather, it’s hard to do fast (that is, without treating your CPU as a fast 8-bitter, which it sucks at being, comparatively speaking). The other direction is surprisingly difficult, though[2]. [1] https://research.swtch.com/ftoa https://research.swtch.com/ftoa [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3296979.3192369 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3296979.3192369