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I wondered this, and thankfully ruby doesn't seem to have this exact problem (that would be egregious) and the problem is much more subtle

I think the reason this happens is float.exposed/0x418b0302d2... is exactly one float before 56647770.35 and an off by one error in the last place (ulp) is pretty common (not sure what IEEE754 has to say about this)

(sorry for orphaning this reply, I accidentally leaked my computer's username)

demonstration the 1.1 accumulation loop results in significant error at 56,647,770.3j

I was testing this empirically and... ??? that round(1) result is pretty suspect

every value is slightly overestimated when not printed exactly

ruby must be using a different rounding mode on the FPU to get these results

force with with a spelled out C-style for loop too:

i = 0
while i < yourboundhere:
# body
i += 1.1

(0r..20r).step(11/10r) do |i| puts '%f' % i end

oops I threw an accidental curveball and started the counter from 1, here's the exactly analogous:

oh wtf, there's no round(x, prec)??

I guess you have to resort to round(x*10)/10, ... and at that point your loop counter oughta just be premultiplied by 10

ruby code demoing (1r..20r).step(11/10r) do |i| puts '%f' % i end that produces exactly neat and proper summations of 1.1 repeating

but you don't gotta think about none of that if you have rationals in your lang:

if you math.round you'd get correct results (at least until you run out of significant figures, and idk precisely what the limit would be but you can analyze it with some algebra like

|0.1 - nearest_float64(0.1)|*n < 0.05

and solve for n)

(continuing from my other branch modestly defending js) yeah see exactly, the corecion rules of js is i think its biggest incurable problem and a terrible SE crime

there's worse SE crimes than this, ±2**53 is enough integers for basically anything that wouldn't also risk overflowing 2**64 (though i do strive for excellence and wish every scripting lang had arbitrarily precision integers and rationals built in like ruby)

it would be so funny if this site had any signed 32bit overflow bugs please please

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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bsky operators:

i would simply* prevent js from running within the iframe

*it would have to be preprocessed, there are libraries to do this because *email* is HTML sometimes (widely regarded to be a mistake that i'd be repeating)

i might have a poor impression of rss based off typical generator output but it could stand to be simpler maybe (an easy but nevertheless unconstructive critique of literally any well-adopted standard)

it is by far the coolest thing we've ever created and probably ever will

also can we like realize that the internet is its own world like there are literally no borders here and your government’s censorship is stupid and useless and harmful and has no benefits for the greater good

yeah, my first prototype would be a webapp that loads up <iframe>s on demand (making this secure is probably a nightmare though)

RSS can stick around for what its good at! the user experience i'm after would ideally be having a feed of arbitrary HTML documents from various sources, and i think maybe very little about RSS itself would need to change, and maybe this is more a project about a good RSS reader

idk im spitballin

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I wish RSS wasn't so limiting, id kill for a redo of RSS

neocities is just webhosting yeah, it does have a veneer of social features though, you can follow other sites from your own to get site updates (an experience richer than RSS or atom, which is not hard)