civility

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by civility 7y ago
Yes, and annoyingly it only goes back 20,000 years. Going back 400,000 years would tell a much more interesting story.
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by civility 7y ago
> Really, are you sure? Pretty sure, and user adwn commented on it too. It's a pretty common pattern to not answer the question and then indicate it was a dumb question in the first place. Then he doubled down on the acceptable in
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by civility 7y ago
I appreciate your reply, but I don't believe the vandalism and arson metaphor fits. There are just people you let get away with crap and ones you don't. His goal was to antagonize me while flying under the radar, and he succeede
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by civility 7y ago
Dan, go fuck yourself. By letting people get away with snarky condescending tones and banning people who call them out on it, you're encouraging shitty behavior. "Don't be snarky" is right up top in the comments sectio
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by civility 7y ago
Nice job - you've succeeded in being just another condescending asshole.
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by civility 7y ago
> civility's reply to your post is somewhat rude Not as rude as I wanted to be. I expect answers like that from Stack Overflow or Reddit - just another condescending ego play without actually addressing the question. Regardless, th
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by civility 7y ago
Your answer is trite and unhelpful.
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by civility 7y ago
Is anyone aware of a good/fast single threaded allocator for cases where you don't need/want to pay for thread safety?
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by civility 7y ago
And here I was, worried I might be tedious or pedantic, trying to argue that floating point is just not that simple. You've really outdone me in that regard.
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by civility 7y ago
So umm, more than a "difference in the realm of 6-8 significant digits"?
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by civility 7y ago
Ugh, you're preaching to the choir. I wasn't trying to make a point about the equality operator, I was trying to make a point about x and y being completely different. I must be really bad at communicating with people.
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by civility 7y ago
No joke. Is it 10 years from now, 100 years, or something else?
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by civility 7y ago
> [...] or we're all doomed! When are we all doomed? Can you put a date (year) on it?
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by civility 7y ago
Call it a contrivance if you want, my point was just that you can get very surprising results even for "real life" sized numbers. Not sure why you changed it from "1.0 % 0.2" to "0.1 % 0.2". The error on the o
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by civility 7y ago
I didn't see anything in your message above indicating you were restricting yourself to integers.
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by civility 7y ago
I think I see where you're hung up. If I change it to: x = 1e20 + 1 - 1e20 y = 1e20 - 1e20 + 1 assert x == y There is only 1 digit, and it's wrong. You don't even need 6-8. I probably should've used t
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by civility 7y ago
> JavaScript is precise for 2^53 range What does this mean to you? It's very easy to get horrible rounding error with real-life sized things. For instance document.writeln(1.0 % 0.2); The right answer is 0.0, and the most
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by civility 7y ago
The person I replied to claims to have looked at large* data sets and never seen a discrepancy in 6-8 significant digits. I thought I'd show them a small data set with 3 samples that retains no significant digits. * Never mind that &q
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by civility 7y ago
x = 1e-20 + 1e20 - 1e20 y = 1e20 - 1e20 + 1e-20 assert x == y
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by civility 7y ago
Really, it's just part of the scam. Most people actually believe the seller is paying the realtors. It's how the buyer's agent can say, "Don't worry about my rate, the seller pays it!", as though you're
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by civility 7y ago
You're right, of course. However in this case, I'd like to see someone fix the problem instead of just making it more palatable. To me FlyHomes looks like just another realtor who screws you for too much money, but they give you
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by civility 7y ago
The buyer pays everyone - no one else brings any money to the transaction.
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by civility 7y ago
In Arizona, every stick-and-stucco house has (or will have) termites. The inspector already knows the answer before he shows up. You pay for "treatment" each time the places changes owners. When I sold my first house, The buyer&
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by civility 7y ago
I just found their quote: > Flyhomes makes money through the commission paid by the home’s seller. This is the same lie all realtors love to throw out. "You don't pay - the seller does!". Never mind the buyer is the only
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by civility 7y ago
What rate do they charge? It looks like they provide a cash offer and then find financing so you can buy it from them. I didn't see anything about how this eliminates middle-men and egregious fees. I'm not sure though, because I
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by civility 7y ago
Access to MLS? Driving people around? You think any of that should cost the $25,000 the buyer and I paid agents for the house I sold last year? We could've bought a new car for those commissions! Are you an agent, or related to one
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by civility 7y ago
A good conman leaves you feeling that you weren't cheated.
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by civility 7y ago
> But considering that in the US it's the seller who pays both agents, there are no immediate savings for potential buyers [...] This is all part of the scam, and I'm surprised more people can't see through it. Five peopl
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by civility 7y ago
Yes, not everyone can read or use a computer. And yet almost everyone pays for all those realtor services they don't need or even use.
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by civility 7y ago
I've bought 3 homes now and sold 2. There was no "house hunting" process. I went online, looked at photos, and made an offer - same as you. On my second home, I told the realtor exactly what I wanted and where. She failed

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