I've moved my account to @b0rk@jvns.ca (https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk) -- reposting here for folks who didn't automatically get moved over to follow the new account (if you're seeing this, you didn't automatically get moved over)

@Eriatolc @b0rk@jvns.ca I'm using Mastodon (hosted by https://masto.host)

@shane @jjtbsomhorst yep exactly! Everything should keep working exactly the same, you don't have to do anything.

@jmelesky I'm using Mastodon

I'm going to migrate this account from mastodon.social to my own server at @b0rk@jvns.ca this weekend. Everyone should get moved over automatically, fingers crossed :)

@aredridel it’s so frustrating

@leaverou i would have guessed just “1”

@simevidas interesting, thanks

@riastradh hmm I see that I wasn't being clear about what I meant, I'll try to rephrase.

@MattLeidholm I was thinking about that today -- like what if when you typed in 1.1 in a Python REPL, it printed out 1.10000000000000008882? (which is closer to the actual value of that number)

@sudarkoff the reason I don't want to post reruns on main is that whenever I do, people reply with lots of interesting comments/suggestions, and I find it distracting because I'm not actively working on that comic and am not going to make any changes

@davidlowryduda just in the last 2 days or so

Edited the post to add a "floating point isn’t bad or random" section because I really did not want people to take away "floating point is bad". Floating point is amazing! It's just solving an inherently very hard problem.

I don't think I understood before this week that a "fixed point number" is literally just an integer (which represents that integer divided by 1000 or something)

@effy wow yes I think that was the issue, thank you so much!!

@vaurorapub yes thank you!

examples of floating point problems https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/01/13/examples-of-floating-point-problems/

@syntaxseed the reason I don't want to post reruns on main is that whenever I do, people reply with lots of interesting comments/suggestions, and I find it distracting because I'm not actively working on that comic and am not going to make any changes

Hi everybody, I’m ready to unveil my year-end-holiday-hack project:

Meet Searchtodon: ***Private*** Timeline Search for Mastodon

It fills a gap that I have been missing over on Twitter as well: “I remember seeing this THING, where was that again?”

It is built with privacy and consent in mind (pls see the FAQ), but is also *an experiment* to see if something like this is accepted by the larger Mastodon community.

Here goes: https://searchtodon.social

@fatlimey I had no idea there weren't standards for math functions!