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kewwwi lemmy.world kewwwi@lemmy.world
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Brooke (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone brookedSmile@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-12-01
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Ill stop believing that when im dead and gone 😂

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Minty aussie.zone minty@aussie.zone
Joined: 2026-06-04
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Glad someone has some hope.

I for one, have somehow obtained negative hope

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zikzak025 lemmy.world zikzak025@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-24
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Glad someone has some hope. I for one, have somehow obtained negative hope

Go low enough and maybe you could have an integer overflow set you back to the highest value.

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Minty aussie.zone minty@aussie.zone
Joined: 2026-06-04
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Go low enough and maybe you could have an integer overflow set you back to the highest value.

Ill redownload social media to test if this is will happen

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verdare piefed.blahaj.zone verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Go low enough and maybe you could have an integer overflow set you back to the highest value.

Ahem, *pushes up glasses*… It’s actually an integer underflow.

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kewwwi lemmy.world kewwwi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-17
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Glad someone has some hope. I for one, have somehow obtained negative hope

get your hopes up debbie downer !

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Minty aussie.zone minty@aussie.zone
Joined: 2026-06-04
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get your hopes up debbie downer !

Ill try lmao. But yes i really have noticed i fit that description at times lmao

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PinkiePieYay2707 pawb.social PinkiePieYay2707@pawb.social
Joined: 2025-03-29
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Ahem, *pushes up glasses*… It’s actually an integer underflow.

Nope, pull those glasses down. There is no such thing as integer underflow, as the concept of underflowing refers to a lack of precision when attempting to enter a precise value. In other words, this applies to floats and doubles (and similar decimal types).

Example of how underflow looks like (though I admit it is a very basic example): you can put a number with two decimal places into a variable, but then you attempt to enter a number with three decimal places instead. In this example you will end up with either a rounded or cut-off number, because it would be impossible to enter that last decimal place, thus you lose precision. Hopefully this makes some sense, because in reality floats make little sense with all those mantissas and whatnot (ok they do make sense, but it's really hard and I don't like it).

Overflow refers to going from one end to another, regardless of direction. Try to type "integer underflow" in wikipedia, it should redirect you to overflow instead.

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Sundray lemmus.org sundray@lemmus.org
Joined: 2023-12-19
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While there's life there's hope.

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Brooke (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone brookedSmile@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-12-01
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While there's life there's hope.

Exactly ❤️

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sqw lemmy.sdf.org sqw@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-17
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Nope, pull those glasses down. There is no such thing as integer underflow, as the concept of underflowing refers to a lack of precision when attempting to enter a precise value. In other words, this applies to floats and doubles (and similar decimal types). Example of how underflow looks like (though I admit it is a very basic example): you can put a number with two decimal places into a varia...

thanks, this pointed me in the direction of learning a new thing.

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sqw lemmy.sdf.org sqw@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-17
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friendship, community, solidarity, and empathy can solve all of the hardest problems we have. let these values pervade the systems we build.

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Zink programming.dev Zink@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-08-08
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friendship, community, solidarity, and empathy can solve all of the hardest problems we have. let these values pervade the systems we build.

I'd say those things are important for a good fulfilling life whether you are in a peaceful and equitable world or in the dystopian hunger games cyber baron reality we seem to be sliding into.

So I say we lean into those values even if you think you cannot solve any problems.

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ZkhqrD5o lemmy.world ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-17
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Corporations want to avoid people coming together or being too nice, if that happens they may help each other and are more difficult to control. That's why corporations use feudal systems, to make it "benefit" some castes to obey the system.

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queerlilhayseed piefed.blahaj.zone queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-09-27
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Nope, pull those glasses down. There is no such thing as integer underflow, as the concept of underflowing refers to a lack of precision when attempting to enter a precise value. In other words, this applies to floats and doubles (and similar decimal types). Example of how underflow looks like (though I admit it is a very basic example): you can put a number with two decimal places into a varia...

Hold on to those glasses for a second. I searched for "integer underflow" and the first result was the wikipedia article for Integer Overflow which has this passage in the "Definition variations and ambiguity" section:

The case of an integer operation producing a value less than the smallest representable value is sometimes called integer underflow, though most commonly it is known as a type of overflow.[30] This usage is quite different from floating-point underflow, which refers to a floating-point value that is too close to 0.

That citation points to this definition on mitre (formatted for clarity):

CWE-191: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound): The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result.

Integer underflow refers to a type of overflow (that is, an overflowing of the minimum bound instead of the maximum bound) and it's a different thing than floating point precision loss. To use the odometer example from Wikipedia, it would be like running the odometer backward until it goes from 000000 to 999999, which is an invalid result since 0 - 1 =/= 999999.

Given the evidence, I move that the council of pedants keep /u/verdare's glasses pushed up. I further move that they get bonus pedantry points since they are both technically correct and needlessly specific, since it is also true that "overflow" is correct in this case, which is the most pedantic kind of correct :)

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Wirlocke lemmy.blahaj.zone Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-01
#17 · Quote Reply

Meanwhile this is my attitude:

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heartSagan5 lemmy.zip heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-27
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I mean, it won't undo all the evil, but it will generate communities, a shared front to oppose the bullshit.

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NotEasyBeingGreen slrpnk.net NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-03-30
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https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cardigans/doyoubelieve.html

Do you really think
That love is gonna save the world?
Well, I don't think so
(Do you believe)
I just don't think so

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Daftydux lemmy.dbzer0.com Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-01-31
#20 · (edited) Quote Reply

Its not like a anyone is trying love and friendship....

Definitely not here on the internet, anyway.

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n0xy (it/its) lemmy.dbzer0.com N0tTr0xy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-05-11
#21 · Quote Reply

It will

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n0xy (it/its) lemmy.dbzer0.com N0tTr0xy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-05-11
#22 · Quote Reply

Meanwhile this is my attitude:

just be friends with guns

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sp3ctr4l lemmy.dbzer0.com sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-04-10
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Hold on to those glasses for a second. I searched for "integer underflow" and the first result was the wikipedia article for Integer Overflow which has this passage in the "Definition variations and ambiguity" section: The case of an integer operation producing a value less than the smallest representable value is sometimes called integer underflow, though most commonly it is known as a type of...

Masterful, S Rank, no notes.

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MrShankles reddthat.com MrShankles@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Its not like a anyone is trying love and friendship.... Definitely not here on the internet, anyway.

I love you friend ❤️

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Daftydux lemmy.dbzer0.com Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-01-31
#25 · Quote Reply

I love you friend ❤️

Ill make you pay for that!

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MrShankles reddthat.com MrShankles@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
#26 · Quote Reply

Ill make you pay for that!

I was gonna pay anyway! Your money's no good here, let me treat you!

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Daftydux lemmy.dbzer0.com Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-01-31
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I was gonna pay anyway! Your money's no good here, let me treat you!

I can feel the murderous rage leaving my body.

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cloudshouter lemmy.zip cloudshouter@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-01
#28 · Quote Reply

It you take the chant from Full Metal Jacket and replace the words “rifle” with “friendship” and “gun” with “love”

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