Thanks for teaching me something, but the obscurity of your answer just illustrates how rare that requirement is in human readable formats, and mostly limited to data formats designed for numeric precision, like HDF5, FITS or protobuf.

What text based serialization formats do enforce numeric precision?

AFAIK it’s always left up to the writer (serializer)

If you’re using a library to handle deserialization , the ugliness of the serial format doesn’t matter that much.

Just call yaml.load() and forget about it.

Putting it in a DB is the easy part.

It’s support in a thousand other systems that deal with addresses that’s the real problem.

For something like a street address, interoperability is a hell of a lot more important than culturally preferred spelling.

How are you getting that 1 KIA = $1M USD?

I absolutely do not want Amazon or any parts of the surveillance state learning anything about the privacy of my home.

I never minded studying, but always hated writing essays, even though pretty good at it.

How do we train people to think, and validate that they learned, when they can outsource it to a computer?

The author alludes to oral exams, though they have a whole host of other issues.

Cents are tiny, bars are a fortune.

2meta4me

The YouTube engineers working on advertising are tasked with maximizing revenue, not making the user experience better.

It’s a de-facto monopoly and the only way to get better user experience is through adblock.

Yahoo!

PHEV Pacificas are great

Yeah I don’t need to refill my battery in 2 hours, but it’s nice to be able to meaningfully top off between errands to make the most of a small PHEV battery.

So you’re saying he’s guilty of wrongthink?

Now we’re criticizing people for things they didn’t say?

Sounds unlikely to me.

Valve would be taking on a huge compatibility problem in exchange for maybe better battery life in scenarios that already have good battery life.

Avast, ye matey!

If I don’t personally control everyone’s use of the project, people might use it without paying my company!

💯

You used to be able to get health care by stealing $1, but now you have to kill an insurance CEO.