Comment on What has he done to deserve this?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 months agoA second piece of code that read this data assumed it was in the metric unit—“newtons per square meter"
Comment on What has he done to deserve this?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 months agoA second piece of code that read this data assumed it was in the metric unit—“newtons per square meter"
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yes… Code doesn’t write itself.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The machine running that code cares about the definition of the units in that code.
Machines do care.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Machines don’t care about shit, they blindly do what they’re told. Garbage in, garbage out.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wouldn’t go so far as to call imperial units garbage.