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Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 4 months ago (10 children)

All of us fintech devs however, know the true horrors. Make everything a string, lest ye end up in precision hell

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Just reminded me of an argument trying to explain that arithmetic with floating point numbers is not always correct to a coworker who was a mathematician just starting in software dev.

In a mathematicians mind the fact that an arithmetic operation can produce inaccurate result is just incomprehensible

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Lovecraftian horror for mathematicians. Immediately goes insane.

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