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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Last I heard something like 98% of new cars/trucks sold in America have automatic.

We’re talking Patreon rules not US law.

No AR, just camera, mike and speakers?

So this is only going to do one “app”, being Siri or whatever Apple calls their AI service now.

Sounds like the Humane AI pin but wear it on your face.

I’ve been on the JetBrains bandwagon for a long time and no desire to switch.

We can’t even standardize our environment names. The US team wants ‘stage’ and ‘dev’ but EU wants ‘staging’ and ‘devel’.