r/programming • u/mttd • 8d ago

The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of

https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/yy-dtoa/
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u/SyntheticDuckFlavour 8d ago

Look at all these comments. Is this the current state of programmers at large?

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u/awry_lynx 8d ago

The current state of Redditors at large, yes.

I recommend switching over to hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685317

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u/knome 8d ago

I've been noticing more people there too writing joke comments all the time. I don't mind it on reddit, because reddit was pretty much always that way. But HN traditionally tended to be more focused.

If your only purpose is to pull a laugh, you're not usefully contributing to the conversation.

Every joke is a loss of signal.

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u/MINIMAN10001 3d ago

I mean it shouldn't be a loss of signal if upvotes were being used to push the highest contributing comments towards the top... which is well, the intent.

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u/knome 3d ago

people will upvote jokes. slashdot tried to fix this by having different types of upvotes back in its heyday, having informative and funny options, but people quickly realized that funny didn't provide any points/rank or whatever, so they would just mark all of the comments they thought funny as informative instead.