Ah, Apache Commons: for those who felt Java’s standard library wasn’t bloated enough already.
(I kid, I kid, though it was always funny just how many basic features seemed to be missing from Java back in the day despite its massive bundled library, leading to seemingly every major project adding Commons as a dependency. Not as much as thing these days AFAIK)
I feel obligated to post a link to this excellent (albeit incomplete) writeup of posits and unums, which can more accurately represent common fractions in memory at the same (or lower) bit size compared to traditional floating point.
Said page also includes the single best slightly-above-entry-level explanation of how floating point works I’ve ever seen.
Saudi Arabia makes sense. They know fossil fuels will eventually make their way out, so they created a sovereign wealth fund to buy a bunch of profitable companies so they can keep funding their lavish lifestyle in the middle of a desert. It’s a bit skeevy that they’re setting themselves up as leeches subsisting on the work of subsumed companies (basically taking landlordism to a new level), but it’s arguably better than sticking with oil, and at least they have a motive to not interfere too badly and wreck their revenue stream.
The main problem is that Mohammed bin Salman (Mr. Bonesaw himself) is the fund’s chairman and directly profiting off of everything they do, plus every sale of an EA game now directly funds Saudi Arabia’s repressive and regressive government.
Kushner, on the other hand, just wants money and is using the connections he got during Trump’s first term (where he made billions by abusing his position) to muscle in on a share of the pie. He’s corrupt scum with no redeeming qualities.
Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner, to be precise. One of the most hated game companies is being bought out by people who are even worse.
Flashbacks to the Invincible train scene.
Since their current cash wouldn’t fit in a 32-bit integer that’d mean it’s at least 64-bit. An integer underflow would require a debt of over 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 units-of-currency before it rolled over to positives.
Man, this bubble is even bigger than I thought! /s
I’ve managed to create a compression algorithm that reduces files down to a single bit. I call it “is this file ‘loss.png’?”.
It’s guaranteed 100% lossless with any input!