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> Engineers write bugs all the time Why do we hold calculators to such high bars? Humans make calculation mistakes all the time. Why do we hold banking softwa
by puttycat 9mo ago
> Engineers write bugs all the time
Why do we hold calculators to such high bars? Humans make calculation mistakes all the time.
Why do we hold banking software to such high bars? People forget where they put their change all the time.
Etc etc.
- Der_Einzige 9mo agoI don't hold calculators to high bars. They think 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004: https://qntm.org/notpointthree https://qntm.org/notpointthree
- recursive 9mo agoSome of them. The good ones don't.