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The user name "zitterbewegung" sounds like a German. They build sentences like that. You have to think about a sentence like a stack and read it slowly and car
by fifilura 2y ago
The user name "zitterbewegung" sounds like a German. They build sentences like that.
You have to think about a sentence like a stack and read it slowly and carefully and take note of the push and pop operations.
Germans are like RPN where everyone else is a regular calculator.
- namaria 2y agoI'm afraid it's not just sentence structure that is the problem here: > one and 100th of the data was missing No idea what that means > an advertisement of a person’s or a group’s promotion What in god's name is an "advertisement of a group's promotion"?
- roelschroeven 2y agoI read that as "(an advertisement of a person) or (a group's promotion)".
- callmeal 2y ago>> one and 100th of the data was missing >No idea what that means 1/100th of a dollar is a cent - goes towards the "missing cents" glossed over by calling that "dancing cents" in the blog post.
- monktastic1 2y agoYes, but why one and 1/100th?
- tekla 2y agoTurns out people have different ways of saying the same concept because language is ultimately human and not a mathematical proof.
- monktastic1 2y agoYes, I was never confused about that. It's just that I've never heard this particular phrase, or anything like it. In retrospect, it appears to be a transcription error.
- zitterbewegung 2y agoMeant to say 1% or 1/100 of inserts failed.
- zitterbewegung 2y agoI was illustrating to the concept if you have a database solution that loses data randomly it would be seen as a joke compared to a dual entry ledger seen here. It feels like they were promoting themselves instead of addressing a real problem since dual entry ledgers have been used before computers in finance.
- monktastic1 2y agoDid you mean just "one hundredth?" (i.e., 1%)? "One and one hundredth" suggests 101% to a native English speaker. Edit: ah, you probably spoke "one one hundredth" and got a transcription error.
- zitterbewegung 2y agoTranscription error meant to say 1% of all updates to a database (such as an insert) failed.
- zitterbewegung 2y agoI don't know German I was using the voice recognition on an iPad.