korstmos

@korstmos@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good Old Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because paying a few grand a year for a certificate somehow makes your software more trustworthy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Java⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because even a long (64-bit int) is too small :)
  A long can hold 2^64-1 = 1.84E19
  A double can hold 1.79E308

  Double does some black magic with an exponent, and can hold absolutely massive numbers!

  Double also has some situations that it defines as "infinity", a concept that does not exist in long as far as I know (?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Java⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A BigDecimal?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Java⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doubles have a much higher max value than ints, so if the method were to convert all doubles to ints they would not work for double values above 2^31-1.

  (It would work, but any value over 2^31-1 passed to such a function would get clamped to 2^31-1)