civility

Yes, and annoyingly it only goes back 20,000 years. Going back 400,000 years would tell a much more interesting story.

> Really, are you sure?

Pretty sure, and user adwn commented on it too. It's a pretty common pattern to not answer the question and then indicate it was a dumb question in the first place. Then he doubled down on the acceptable insults in the follow-on response.

I'm sure I'm oversensitive to crap like this, but I don't think I'm wrong to notice it.

I wonder if HN would ever add a feature to block/hide users others don't want to see, something per reader. I don't see a browser addon for it, and while I'm sure it could be done purely client-side, you might find stats about who is being blocked and how often interesting if it was done on the server. Heh, I'm sure I would end up on a few people's list, but it doesn't seem likely that we're all just going to get along anytime soon.

Anyways, thank you again for the polite reply.

I appreciate your reply, but I don't believe the vandalism and arson metaphor fits. There are just people you let get away with crap and ones you don't. His goal was to antagonize me while flying under the radar, and he succeeded. My goal was to antagonize him in retribution, and I failed.

So where are we now? I'll go back to reading the headlines instead of the comments because I'm not clever enough to keep people like that from getting under my skin, and he'll go on to piss off someone else the next chance that comes up.

Anyways, I regret snapping at you. Take care.

Dan, go fuck yourself. By letting people get away with snarky condescending tones and banning people who call them out on it, you're encouraging shitty behavior. "Don't be snarky" is right up top in the comments section of the guidelines, but it's easier for you to chastise me because I called the snarky guy an asshole. That's just lazy on your part.

Aggressive comments aren't worse, they're just easier for you to recognize.

Nice job - you've succeeded in being just another condescending asshole.

> civility's reply to your post is somewhat rude

Not as rude as I wanted to be. I expect answers like that from Stack Overflow or Reddit - just another condescending ego play without actually addressing the question.

Regardless, thank you for your reply.

I don't suppose you know a good single-threaded (or share-nothing across threads) allocator worth looking at?

Your answer is trite and unhelpful.

Is anyone aware of a good/fast single threaded allocator for cases where you don't need/want to pay for thread safety?

And here I was, worried I might be tedious or pedantic, trying to argue that floating point is just not that simple. You've really outdone me in that regard.

So umm, more than a "difference in the realm of 6-8 significant digits"?

Ugh, you're preaching to the choir. I wasn't trying to make a point about the equality operator, I was trying to make a point about x and y being completely different. I must be really bad at communicating with people.

No joke. Is it 10 years from now, 100 years, or something else?

> [...] or we're all doomed!

When are we all doomed? Can you put a date (year) on it?

Call it a contrivance if you want, my point was just that you can get very surprising results even for "real life" sized numbers.

Not sure why you changed it from "1.0 % 0.2" to "0.1 % 0.2". The error on the one I showed was near 0.2, not 1e-17. Did I miss your point?

I didn't see anything in your message above indicating you were restricting yourself to integers.