Comment on What has he done to deserve this?

• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  A second piece of code that read this data assumed it was in the metric unit—“newtons per square meter"

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  • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yes… Code doesn’t write itself.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The machine running that code cares about the definition of the units in that code.

      Machines do care.

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      • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Machines don’t care about shit, they blindly do what they’re told. Garbage in, garbage out.

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