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by puttycat 166 days ago
> Engineers write bugs all the time

Why do we hold calculators to such high bars? Humans make calculation mistakes all the time.

Why do we hold banking software to such high bars? People forget where they put their change all the time.

Etc etc.

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I don't hold calculators to high bars. They think 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004:

https://qntm.org/notpointthree

Some of them. The good ones don't.