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> (Also I decided to try writing this thread in the style of a linkedin influencer lol, sorry about that.)

I hated reading this buzzfeedy style (or apparently LinkedIn-style?) moron-vomit.

I shouldn't complain, just ask my nearest LLM to rewrite this article^W scribbling to a less obnoxious form of writing..



I noticed this too, but I was confused because the calculator article was informative and interesting. It's entirely unlike the inept fluffy slop that gets posted to LinkedIn


Agreed.

And furthermore the content isn't as "wow, who'd a thunk it" as the author seems to think it is. I cannot be unusual in knowing that single and double precision floating point numbers just don't cut it for a lot of arithmetic tasks. Surely this is taught in every comp-sci course? And doesn't nearly everyone know the N ⊆ Z ⊆ Q ⊆ A ⊆ R ⊆ C hierarchy?, well nearly everyone doesn't but surely everyone who either decides to write a calculator app or is tasked with writing one ought to know this? The claim "A calculator app? Anyone could make that." is a patently ridiculous claim to me, anybody who would make such a claim is clearly ignorant of both software development and mathematics. Next article. "A text editor? Anyone could make that."


I liked it.


I think it’s called broetry although perhaps the sentences are a little long for that.




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