The mysterious child that was never to be referenced again

I'm sure there was a threshold they had set for that, but I doubt it ever made it. For Microsoft something can't just be very profitable, it has to be insanely profitable

I loved it. It's a modern rct2 for sure. I couldn't find anything that was super different about this versus roller coaster tycoon 2. The gameplay is fun, I got easily addicted to it, they added a couple new elements that were kind of fun, I don't know if you're debating about it. I think it's worth the money completely

time and time again those who ignore their feelings just end up having worse and worse problems later. So many marriages end because one person refuses to open up. Repression leads to substance abuse. It's better all around to acknowledge emotions

Lindsey Stirling just dropped a new album. I didn't care for her last few, they will kind of blend together and sound the same. This one she's craving out and trying some slower things out and it's really nice to listen to

I used to think that way, feeling embarrassed when someone pointed out I had emotions.

I realized over time it was my dad who taught me to feel that shame, and the friend group I was with. Slowly I started to realize that it wouldn't matter, and let myself be me a bit more.

Life definitely got easier. When they talk about toxic masculinity, that's it. Forcing you to hide who you are because you think it isn't manly or something. It's wrong though. I met my wife and she liked me because I was in touch with my emotions. It's become a part of me. Hell I finally realized I love Taylor Swift because I emotionally connect with her songs where before I could never let myself like her music.

Society pushes all of these weird rules on us, and man does life get easier when you just stop caring about them

Yeah idk. I get what they're saying completely, but this exact one seems easy. Just do a validation check and throw an error. I mean, it is an IP validator after all. Either support hex or don't.

Correct, JSON can handle any precision, because it's just dumped as a string anyway, just not enclosed in the "". However, as you mentioned, as soon as it comes through the parser it'll put it into an underlying float value. In C# I create a save high precision attribute that will take the value and put it directly into a decimal. In JS I'm sure there's some way to do that, but that parser is way less extensible compared to C#. However, this also all assumes you know the client will parse it correctly, overriding the default behavior. Safest is to just send it as a string, and then create your parsers to automatically send to and from strings

Until you get to multi currency, which is why I don't support using ints or longs, and strings are still the only way. There are currencies that have no precision, and others that have 3 or more digits of precision - and then you're looking at doing calculations each time. Strings are the safest way to make sure you're representing exactly what you want to when sending data over the wire or persisting

The fun differences between the perfect world of theoretical and the realistic. Everyone thinks of computers as perfect - but it's not until you're asked to solve "How do you store decimals using only 0s and 1s?" does it start to click. Not as easy. It's why I'm hesitant to hire bootcampers into my roles. Bootcamps are great, and they get more people coding, but you don't learn that theory behind the scenes - you don't really know what the computer and operating systems are doing. For 90% of the time it doesn't matter, it's abstracted away - but that last 10% man, that can really fuck up an entire system.

Not a bad reason to want to play as yourself at all, but after the first playthrough or so then it's time to start experimenting. One of the great things about RPGs is that you can be someone else entirely, and I think it opens us up to other ways of thinking. Playing as female shepard is at times a completely different experience, and you just want to explore it. It's the guys who are afraid of playing as a woman, who think it's not masculine or something weird like that. That's not okay, drop the masculinity, be the awesome femshep bitch you were born to be. Plus to them, I like to say, "Why would I want to stare at a guy's ass for 100+ hours?" Usually fucks with their masculinity a bit

Lol I did, whoops.

Long and short, floating point math is imprecise, and when dealing with currency you must be 100% precise. One of those rules of programming: Never store (or let currency flow through) a float. That includes doubles too.

In javascript, the number type is imprecise, it is contained by a float under the hood, meaning precision can be lost. So even just parsing JSON to a number, even if you mean to move it into something like BigNumber, the precision is already not guaranteed when it finally gets to BigNumber. The safest thing to do is pass the numeric values as strings, which are guaranteed of course to represent their exact precision and value, and then use a proper precise parser to the value, like BigNumber.parse(strValue). (Even then, there's an argument that it's very rare that you ever need an amount outside of a string in a UI. Most calculations should be handled by a server that's the single source of truth in calculations, think sales tax and shipping, so a string is just a value that is presented to a user).

In C#, float and double are imprecise and not guaranteed, especially with arithmetic. Decimal is the best way to store an exact value.

In databases, it's usually best practice to store the string value of the amount for exact precise recordkeeping, with a decimal field next to it labeled something like AmountImprecise that you can use for aggregating, sorting, grouping, whatever.

Every language will have it's quirks, but essentially, take this from me, a senior fintech engineer. If you see currency amounts, think precision, and know you'll need to take extra extra care about how it's stored. You don't want to accidentally office space yourself, especially when auditors come around.

All of us fintech devs however, know the true horrors. Make everything a string, lest ye end up in precision hell

bingo. Timezones became easier when I learned that all apps and databases should have all times be in UTC. Let the UI do it's thing and accept local time and convert it, and vis versa.

FemShep is the best way imo.

I've heard the weirdest excuses for why not though, worst ones were "why would I want to play as a woman, I'm a man". Now, on your first playthrough absolutely but after that?

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This is all over a GitHub stars badge? Developers probably want to encourage people to star it. It's a huge stretch to say they're trying to track people

Hot take. All Americans lost last night.

You've been sitting in the drive through for 10 minutes how do you not know what to order?!

Me, 16 years old, on the other end of the speaker