I’m all for it if it convinces more people to leave. Unfortunately I see way too many people who see ads though and think “yup that’s just the way it is thank you more please”

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Agreed. No wonder our parents brains are melting if that’s the horrifying shit they see.

I mean, the UK just said they’re starting to regulate it literally today, why is anyone surprised by this?

Of course hooray bumble for… Being forced to implement it anyway?

Legends say she was the first person on the fediverse

She really wants to make friends!

I kinda wish I was on piefed, but the thought of migration sounds hella daunting. Ping me if you find a decent script or something

They’ve gotten very serious in the last month, sounds like it’s finally happening

Same. Groups were merged a while ago but I’ve never seen them

To being blackmailed into only receiving a refund if they change their review. I see nothing in there about them giving a refund if they don’t change it first

I think it’s a cycle. Some hotshot MBA and says why are we paying so much in engineers! Outsource! So they do, quality tanks, everything goes to shit, and it takes years to recover. MBA meanwhile has already gotten their bonus, the new Audi, and left for another job. The company slowly rehires expensive talent and they start picking up the pieces, years behind.

And then some hotshot MBA comes in…

Which immediately tells me I should buy it

Right but then you have to pass that information around so people know how to deserialize it, and it means things like the UI need to do exact currency conversions on their side that must match the server too. So if you are doing USD you would not only need to pass 1000 to denote $10 but also the currency name, USD, and it’s precision value of 2. However if you are using the Dinar, and they pass the same 1000 they would need to make sure they pass the precision of 3, and the UI would need to calculate that. (And remember JS is floats, so you run the risk there that the value may not be the same as what the server would see)

The best course of action is to format it on the server. I’ve found that passing the currency code is good along with the stringified value of “10.00” or in the Dinar case “1.000”. That way the UI knows exactly what it should show. Its also extremely rare that someone needs to modify a value on the frontend, but if they do most currency libraries prefer string anyway.

Source: I’ve done FinTech for trading companies, banks, and payment processors. There are a lot of gotchas with money

I’ve used 2020 on Linux many times, works well!

But the second you go international that goes out the window. There are currencies with 3 and 4 digits of precision. There are currencies that are integers. Keeping track of that is a nightmare using a numerical value. It’s safest just to represent it as a string.

Both of these are valid notation. Json spec also says that numbers are floats, so it’s perfectly acceptable to denote them this way. This is why currency should never use a number notation, and instead use a string. If it must be precise, use a string.

Finally, we’re starting to tackle the real problems

Oh good! Maybe MSFS2024 will finally work!

I really hate that business people really think that they went to a couple extra years of business school with some accounting on the side and think that’s enough to run an engineering based business. Look at Boeing too, all of these companies that are at their heart engineering companies are failing because they put these moronic suits in charge - and they’re so arrogant they refuse to listen to the people who actually build their product.

See, this is why I’m disappointed with revolt. Because it’s such an amazing interface and replaces discord 1:1, but I can’t recommend it because they don’t have federation. So I have to make an account for every server, which is a non starter for me and most of my friends.