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Comparing the two situations is absurd.

First, myself and several others in the thread did not realize the author behind that post was a woman until reading the comments. This was well after I had upvoted the article, and decided it was worth discussing.

Second, that was a situation where someone said "what you made is crap." You are saying, "you don't understand floating point," which the author clearly cops to. And, to that point, I'm surprised there are several comments in this thread that say "the bug is in your code, not with floating point" when it was clear to me that this author knew that, he was just playing with words in his title.



I'm glad one person appreciates my main sin is ban punnery, with a minor in forgetting floating point gotchas.

I feel like someone who just told an anecdote about a time they slipped over whilst running and now everyone assumes they never knew how to walk.




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