That sounds like you ran into problems when deserializing a number value from JSON, which then got slightly changed due to floating point shenanigans. That’s technically not JSON’s fault. JSON numbers aren’t IEEE754. They’re just numbers. It’s only the deserializers that usually choose to represent JSON numbers as floating point values.

Quoting https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259#page-7

A number is represented in base 10 using decimal digits. It contains an integer component that may be prefixed with an optional minus sign, which may be followed by a fraction part and/or an exponent part. […]

A fraction part is a decimal point followed by one or more digits.

Numeric values that cannot be represented in the grammar below (such as Infinity and NaN) are not permitted.

This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range and precision of numbers accepted. Since software that implements IEEE 754 binary64 (double precision) numbers [IEEE754] is generally available and widely used, good interoperability can be achieved by implementations that expect no more precision or range than these provide, in the sense that implementations will approximate JSON numbers within the expected precision. A JSON number such as 1E400 or 3.141592653589793238462643383279 may indicate potential interoperability problems, since it suggests that the software that created it expects receiving software to have greater capabilities for numeric magnitude and precision than is widely available.

Or they’re confident enough in their parenting that they can allow their daughter to come to her own conclusions about this situation after a while.

Is your ISP from a deep red US state? It loads fine for me.

she doesn’t want to because she knows it will be a difficult conversation.

That’s a lot of assuming. If we argue in her favor, then we might assume that her parents might not be the most receptive. This is a sensible assumption on her part. Any parent whose daughter is suddenly missing will be agitated. This state of mind is not conducive to a rational conversation.

So her reaction makes sense: She asks her brother whom she views as a good bearer of news to just tell their parents that she is fine, so they don’t go crazy. After they’ve calmed down, she intends to explain herself.

I think this is extraordinarily good thinking. Calling her parents immediately with the news that she’s gone will just end in a shouting contest. Not telling them at all is an undue burden on them and might have undesirable consequences like involving the police. This girl seems to do her best to have a calm talk. That’s way more than I’ve come to expect from adults.

She said she’d talk to them afterwards. The way I read it she just wants her parents to not panic because their daughter is gone. This seems reasonable to me.

Distance travelled is not the only metric by which you can judge a route. Others include:

• Traffic
• Traffic lights or other stops, since it’s nicer to drive uninterrupted.
• What turns you need to make (2 left turns over 6 lanes of traffic? Pass)
• Familiarity
• Road condition
• The view

That person doesn’t look like they intended this picture to circulate on the internet.

Thanks. I couldn’t come up with a reason why the material would be relevant, so I thought there must be some context or other meaning of “vinyl fence” that I was missing.

There is too little information in that comment for me to be able to provide a meaningful response with the given context.

Edit: I don’t know why the material matters, but I think it was a wire mesh with some sort of plastic in between.

I’m not sure if that applies in your jurisdiction and situation. But I’d take a picture. If your neighborhood does burn down, you have proof that it was him.

First time I got to use a fire extinguisher was when a neighbor a few houses down the street thought it was a good idea to burn moss in his driveway with a blowtorch after it hadn’t rained in weeks.

That was the second time that neighbor’s neighbor’s hedge caught fire. He then replaced it with a fence.

Funny how that works isn’t it?

Yeah, because they had the brains to figure out that a $5 taco isn’t worth going to court over.

My initial guess was that sudo would eat up the echo’d foo as the password. Maybe sudo works differently when invoked via zsh?

Can’t reproduce.

16:22:48:~/tmp$ echo foo | sudo tee newfile
[sudo] Passwort für bleistift2:         
foo

16:23:02:~/tmp$ ls -l newfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Feb 23 16:22 newfile

Let me rephrase: It would be illegal for them to not honour their contract. Of course shitty companies may be shitty and reap lawsuits in return.

They can’t not honour the contract, can they? The only risk is their going bankrupt, which seems unlikely, given for how long they’ve existed already.

If you’re considering Nebula, I’d, personally, go for the lifetime subscription. It’s the better deal after 5 years.

I like this sentence from the paper linked at the end of the article:

We show how to implement arithmetic […] that is correct, even by the standards of naive users.

Could be. I try to avoid Excel. And I believe “wenn” is a wrong translation, whether the function has that name or not.

The best part is that if your version of Excel is German, you can’t write =IF(). You have to use =FALLS().

It’s always fun to google a function and then the translation.