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Alanna 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>JFC please don't use floating point types for calculating financial transactions or storing monetary values. I just got asked to review some code by someone and it is the first thing I spotted.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/roundingerrors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roundingerrors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/floatingpoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floatingpoint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/softwareengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwareengineering</span></a></p>
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)<p>Nice:</p><p>“Taming Floating Point Sums”, Orson Peters (<a href="https://orlp.net/blog/taming-float-sums/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">orlp.net/blog/taming-float-sum</span><span class="invisible">s/</span></a>).</p><p>Via HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40477604" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">0477604</span></a></p><p>On Lobsters: <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/lps7qx/taming_floating_point_sums" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lobste.rs/s/lps7qx/taming_floa</span><span class="invisible">ting_point_sums</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NumericalMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NumericalMethods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FloatingPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloatingPoint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KahanSummation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KahanSummation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutoVectorization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutoVectorization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Speed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Speed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accuracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accuracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoundingErrors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoundingErrors</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Okta Breach Impacted All Customer Support Users—Not 1 Percent - Okta upped its original estimate of customer support users affected by a recent breach fr... - <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/okta-breach-disclosure-all-customer-support-users/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/okta-breach-di</span><span class="invisible">sclosure-all-customer-support-users/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a>/cyberattacksandhacks <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a>/securitynews <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/roundingerrors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roundingerrors</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a></p>
Ruth Mottram<p>The (sort of, maybe a bit) revival* of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/blogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogs</span></a> might be a good consequence of the flight to the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> - at least I've started writing and reading them again. </p><p>This one on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RoundingErrors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoundingErrors</span></a> is a corker by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@micefearboggis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>micefearboggis</span></a></span> and if you're at all interested in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/homogenisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homogenisation</span></a> or <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> you should definitely be following him. <br>A classic of the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/genre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genre</span></a>. </p><p>*Yes there's lots of caveats, notably, it maybe too soon to tell..<br> <a href="https://fediscience.org/@micefearboggis/109647834997768125" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fediscience.org/@micefearboggi</span><span class="invisible">s/109647834997768125</span></a></p>