Is that an issue with the format or the currently available tools though?
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karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•Fatal shooting of University of South Carolina student who tried to enter wrong home 'justifiable,' police say223·2 years agoDonofrio broke a glass window on the front door “and reached inside to manipulate the doorknob,”
How much more “immediate” do you need? A complete stranger is trying to break into your home to do god knows what is the epitome of a clear and immediate danger to me.
What would you have done? Opened the door and welcomed them in?
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto Privacy@lemmy.ml•I has come to my attention that some users have never heard of F-droid. F-droid is a free software app store for android21·2 years agoFdroid is a secure repositorie and the applications are reviewed before being made available for end users.
Reviewed by who though? Malicious apps even get through apple and Google’s screening. I can’t see how fdroid can match the capabilities of those guys.
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Demanding "Sub 10 Micron Accuracy” Cybertruck PartsEnglish16·2 years agoAny brands you would recommend?
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•A Russian Mi-8 helicopter crew landed and surrendered in the Kharkiv region.4·2 years agoIt sounds like the crew, except for the pilot was killed? Pretty brutal for the crew. I assume there was no other option
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.ml•China's fertility rate drops to record low 1.09 in 20228·2 years agoDepends how you are presenting the number. Over 1 per person is ok, but this is 1.1 per woman. So closer to .5 per person.
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•Here's everything that Massachusetts' 4% tax on millionaires will pay for, from free student lunches to college financial aid25·2 years agoIs there actual evidence of this? I think FL and TX are still large net population gainers over the past few years, while MA, NY, CA all lost population. I have no idea about the net moves by income bracket though
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•Here's everything that Massachusetts' 4% tax on millionaires will pay for, from free student lunches to college financial aid2·2 years agoI don’t know about MA’s tax rules, but it could be based on number of days living in the state. Most wealthy people are not staying on Martha’s vineyard outside of the summer.
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How much control/access does my instance owner haver over my account?1·2 years agoWhy can’t the admin just change the Lemmy source code to not hash anymore?
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•As badly described as possible, what is your favorite video game?2·2 years agoOr Castlevania?
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto Open Source@lemmy.ml•BorgBackup – Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption2·2 years agoI’ve been testing out restric and kopia for backups. Anyone with experience with these know the pros and cons vs. Borg?
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•RaspberryPi NAS problems be like5·2 years agoHonestly something that critical probably shouldn’t run on a rpi. There are plenty of cheap used thin clients you can buy on eBay that have better performance and reliability. I probably like the thinkcentre micros, but feel and hp have good options too
I agree with all that. But I’m talking about exact integer values as mentioned in the parent.
I just think this has to be true: count(exact integers that can be represented by a N bit floating point variable) < count(exact integers that can be represented by an N bit int type variable)
Yeah, that was my guess too. But that just means they could return a long (or whatever the 64 bit int equivalent in java is) instead of an int.
I don’t think that’s possible. Representing more exact ints means representing larger ints and vice versa. I’m ignoring signed vs. unsigned here as in theory both the double and int/long can be signed or unsigned.
Edit: ok, I take this back. I guess you can represent larger values as long as you are ok that they will be estimates. Ie, double of N (for some very large N) will equal double of N + 1.
No, I get that. I’m sure the programming language design people know what they are doing. I just can’t grasp how a double (which has to use at least 1 bit to represent whether or not there is a fractional component) can possibly store more exact integer vales than an integer type of the same length (same number of bits).
It just seems to violate some law of information theory to my novice mind.
So why not return a long or whatever the 64 bit int equivalent is?
How does that work? Is it just because double uses more bits? I’d imagine for the same number of bits, you can store more ints than doubles (assuming you want the ints to be exact values).
karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•Oregon lifts ban on self-serve gas, leaving N.J. as the only state prohibiting it342·2 years agoThen why make it a law? Gas stations would all choose to have full service only if it was cheaper.
Rude tone apart, this is absolutely true. Nobody thinks satellite Internet is meant to compete with fiber to the door.