HextenAndy

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   by HextenAndy 1y ago

   Quite. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone to check the issue tracker before blogging and I don't think Andrew's response was at all problematic.
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   by HextenAndy 1y ago

   Exactly.
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   by HextenAndy 1y ago

   It is a standard thing. It's called floating point.
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   by HextenAndy 1y ago

   Surely that's just normal floating point but missing e.g. normalisation? Floating point is literally an int exponent and an int mantissa. Except real floating point adjusts the exponent to avoid integer overflow in the mantissa - which
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   by HextenAndy 1y ago

   Probably exactly that - relatively few big ticket customers.
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   Andrew Tanenbaum honoured for MINIX, the OS hiding in lots of computers(theregister.com)

   27 points by HextenAndy 2y ago|9 comments
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   by HextenAndy 3y ago

   I haven’t followed the link - but why not put it all in one place?
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   How the video game Fallout became a backdrop for live Shakespeare shows(theguardian.com)

   1 points by HextenAndy 4y ago|0 comments
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   by HextenAndy 4y ago

   Wait until you see subversion :)