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I've moved my account to @b0rk@jvns.ca (https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk) -- reposting here for folks who didn't automatically get moved over to follow the new account.

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@Eriatolc @b0rk@jvns.ca I'm using Mastodon (hosted by https://masto.host)

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@shane @jjtbsomhorst yep exactly! Everything should keep working exactly the same, you don't have to do anything.

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@jmelesky I'm using Mastodon

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I'm going to migrate this account from mastodon.social to my own server at @b0rk@jvns.ca this weekend. Everyone should get moved over automatically, fingers crossed :)

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@aredridel it’s so frustrating

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@leaverou i would have guessed just “1”

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@simevidas interesting, thanks

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@riastradh hmm I see that I wasn't being clear about what I meant, I'll try to rephrase.

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@MattLeidholm I was thinking about that today -- like what if when you typed in 1.1 in a Python REPL, it printed out 1.10000000000000008882? (which is closer to the actual value of that number)

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@sudarkoff the reason I don't want to post reruns on main is that whenever I do, people reply with lots of interesting comments/suggestions, and I find it distracting because I'm not actively working on that comic and am not going to make any changes

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@davidlowryduda just in the last 2 days or so

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Edited the post to add a \"floating point isn’t bad or random\" section because I really did not want people to take away \"floating point is bad\". Floating point is amazing! It's just solving an inherently very hard problem.

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I don't think I understood before this week that a \"fixed point number\" is literally just an integer (which represents that integer divided by 1000 or something)

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@effy wow yes I think that was the issue, thank you so much!!

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@vaurorapub yes thank you!

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examples of floating point problems https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/01/13/examples-of-floating-point-problems/

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@syntaxseed the reason I don't want to post reruns on main is that whenever I do, people reply with lots of interesting comments/suggestions, and I find it distracting because I'm not actively working on that comic and am not going to make any changes

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@fatlimey I had no idea there weren't standards for math libraries!

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@fatlimey whoa that's very cool, thank you

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@StefanKarpinski someone elsewhere in the replies had an amazing example of this bug showing up with an odometer for an ebike https://mastodon.social/@colin_rafferty@hachyderm.io/109677291456947645

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@Steve98052 yeah I'd love that!

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@fatlimey thank you! I don't know that much about numerical computing -- what libraries (?) are you talking about? I've basically only used numpy

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@robryk thanks, that looks promising! I haven't learned about ActivityPub APIs yet

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@fatlimey thanks this is is a great example, similar problem to calculating variance that some others mentioned

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@robryk what's the specific api endpoint you're talking about? if it's `GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/context`, it didn't work for me (no pagination)

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@aspiringcat aw thank you!

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@Steve98052 thanks but i'm looking for real world examples not made up examples, I can make up examples on my own :)

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@zmagg yess i have already written more software than i should have to auto generate captions :). no computer vision yet though, just terrible hacky svg scripts that do matrix math to figure out the text's position

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I was thinking about how I have hundreds of programming comics I've posted to Twitter over the last 5 years that aren't on Mastodon anywhere. Would folks be interested in a \"b0rk_reruns\" account where I have a bot post older comics?

I think the main hard thing about that would be figuring out captions, I only started writing captions pretty recently and backfilling is hard

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the printer just told me that the print proofs of \"The Pocket Guide to Debugging\" are in the mail on the way to me! We're slowly getting closer to be able to ship them :)

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we all know floating point numbers can be treacherous, but what are specific examples of when they've betrayed you?

so far I have:

* money calculations where you need to get the exact correct answer
* twitter's tweet IDs are bigger than 2^53 and can't be represented as a Javascript number, you have to use a string
* implementing numerical algorithms (like matrix multiplication) (I've never done this)

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today I'm thinking about why it's useful for someone who mostly works in higher-level languages (python, JS, scala, etc) to understand how computers represent things in bytes.

some ideas I have so far:

- reading the output of strace
- doing back-of-the-envelope storage calculations
- choosing the right size for a DB primary key (to prevent overflow)
- knowing the limits of JS numbers
- optimizing algorithms (like knowing that multiplying by 2^n is fast)
- debugging encoding issues

what else?

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some business graphs for 2022 https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/01/10/some-business-graphs-for-2022/

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for people who run tiny mastodon instances (for example on masto.host): how much work is managing your server block lists? it's really unclear to me what that looks like for a 1-person instance

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wrote up a quick \"bookshelf\" page with a short list of books / websites / courses / exercises that have helped me https://jvns.ca/bookshelf/.

It's definitely incomplete, but I'd love to see other people's versions!

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I was worried when I started selling print copies that nobody would buy them. But it looks like we've almost sold out the first two print runs (from 2021/2022)! 850 printed copies of each zine!

Decided to take an optimistic approach and print 1000 copies of each zine for the next print run. Hopefully I won't regret it :)

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bytes, not bits

(it was incredibly helpful for me when I learned to think about my computer's memory & data in bytes instead of bits)

\"#

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just learned about protohackers https://protohackers.com/ -- a bunch of challenges where you implement network protocols

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thinking about what to write zines about in 2023. I have a few ideas, but: what would you like to read a zine on? (all suggestions are ok -- even if I don't know anything about the topic, maybe someone else will see it and be inspired and write a zine! :))

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this simulator for testing Arduino projects in the browser looks really cool: https://wokwi.com/

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long shot, but: does anyone know of a fulfillment company based in Canada or Europe that works with very small companies / artists? I work with https://www.whitesquirrel.com/ in the US (who are AMAZING) but shipping from the US to Canada/Europe is just inherently pretty expensive

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tiny holiday project: I made a little site to show/hide boosts for the people you follow on Mastodon, using the Mastodon API https://manage-boosts.jvns.ca/

I'm not really taking feature requests but I found it helpful so I'm sharing in case other folks do as well

the code is here: https://github.com/jvns/manage-boosts

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@alexhillman this sounds a bit like the sticker thing you were talking about the other day https://sticker.space

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I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000 sales, I'm giving away 1000 copies of The Pocket Guide to Debugging (honour system: please only use the free link if you can't afford $12!)

Here’s the link, use code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free copy https://store.wizardzines.com/products/the-pocket-guide-to-debugging-pdf

(I can't disable the billing address prompt but you can just enter a fake address like 123 Fake st, ew york NY 12345, (123) 123 4567 :))

\"a

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writing a tiny mastodon app right now for fun and I really love that all the endpoints allow CORS so the whole thing can just be a static site (no server code!!)

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one thing i (genuinely) like about mastodon is that when there's something everyone is talking about that I don't understand, there's no search so I can't look it up to figure it out

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would folks be interested in education pricing for print copies of the debugging zine? (something like -- if you buy 20 copies of the zine for a class, you get a big discount, and you get the zines shipped to you?)

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if you're looking for things to spend your 2022 professional development budget on before the year ends: my new zine on debugging came out yesterday!

get it here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/debugging-guide/

also you can get a 12-pack of all my zines here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/all-the-zines/

\"a

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getting one or two support emails this morning after releasing the new zine (people who accidentally ordered the wrong thing, etc). I love that my customers are always extremely nice and it's always super easy to reply and resolve the issue

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