One big pet peave I have with a lot of beginner programming books and tutorials that I have used is that they either don't mention floating point rounding errors or given them such a brief mention, they aren't likely to sink in. This is even more frustrating as there are some very simple guidelines new programmers could be given to avoid problems with floating point numbers. If a number doesn't have to be 100% accurate, like colors, spacial coordinates, and weights, you ca use floats; just make sure you never check for exact equality. Check for greater than, less than, or within a range of values. If a number needs to be 100% accurate, like money, use a large integer representing the smallest fraction of money possible, like a cent. Writing a helper function that displays the amount in dollars is relatively trivial.

My new language is D, and while I am still getting used to it, I feel very confident in that statement. Oddly, I would compare moving from C++ to D as similar to moving from Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 to Pathfinder 1st Edition. It keeps everything that I like and fixes a lot of what I didn't. The names of things in the standard library are less cryptic. Ranges, dynamic arrays, and associative arrays are built in. Strings are less confusing. And mutability is more granular and defined. Here is a D dice roller.

ChatGPT Prompt: Create a Mortal Kombat character based on me. Use the attached photo, X profile [profile], and what you know of me. Create a backstory and an illustration plus a full move set with illustrations.

Getting back to the game universe that got me started, Battletech, at the age of 5. ChatGPT prompt: Using my X profile, [profile name], the attached photo, and what you know about me, create a version of me as a mercenary in the Battletech universe. Create an image and dossier of me and my unit, [unit name].

I saw a post a while ago where a programmer who specialized in reverse engineering was saying how modularity makes his job harder. I was wondering how coders on X felt.

I asked: would I be a Jedi, Sith, or Mandalorian?

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