oranlooney

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   by oranlooney 8y ago

   That's great and all, but nobody needs a 32-bit anything in 2018. This undergraduate paper provides a magic number and associated error bound for 64-bit doubles: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~m32rober/rsqrt.pdf
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   by oranlooney 12y ago

   And that is how it works until it gets the public's attention. Then it becomes something else entirely. Once people start looking to "science" for a policy recommendation, the dialogue immediately becomes polarized and extrem
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   by oranlooney 12y ago

   Yes and no. If you push an update and sysadmins all over the world dutifully upgrade and immediately notice programs breaking, their first thought is not going to be "oh, those programs must have had latent bugs." No, they're