If you’d had asked us if converting integer division to floating point might make a program run faster, we’d have bet the answer was no, but we’d have been wrong. As CPUs get more complex ...

In a demonstration using Python code ... I’m 99.00001% sure that most programmers don’t understand just how cursed using floating point numbers is, when dynamic range isn’t needed.

BANGKOK, Dec 7 — A massive reticulated python, reportedly after consuming a dog, was filmed floating in floodwaters in southern Thailand, capturing widespread attention online. The video, shared ...