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Rounding errors may cause winners to become losers and losers winners, Bezos and James Webb both fall to Earth, and beyond lobster shortages, now crabs.
Links:
The floating point: Rounding error in timing devices (American Journal of Physics)
Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge)
Progressives call out Jeff Bezos’s space flight as “self-indulgent” and renew calls for wealth tax (CNN)
NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims (Nature)
Consider the $34 Lobster Roll (New York Times)
Record lobster prices sign of sky-high demand (SeafoodSource)
Mysterious blue crab shortage spawns big-time sticker shock (E&E News)
Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)
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Rounding errors may cause winners to become losers and losers winners, Bezos and James Webb both fall to Earth, and beyond lobster shortages, now crabs.
Links:
The floating point: Rounding error in timing devices (American Journal of Physics)
Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge)
Progressives call out Jeff Bezos’s space flight as “self-indulgent” and renew calls for wealth tax (CNN)
NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims (Nature)
Consider the $34 Lobster Roll (New York Times)
Record lobster prices sign of sky-high demand (SeafoodSource)
Mysterious blue crab shortage spawns big-time sticker shock (E&E News)
Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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