I'm having some work done on my house and was surprised to see the work truck still in my driveway when I got home, but figured I'd just keep driving, fail to find street parking, and just park in the municipal lot (free 24 hours) in the next block over. By the time I got back to my house, the driveway was free so I dropped my stuff off in the house and went back to my car to get it in my own driveway. The cat found this highly confusing.
@Taweret I pronounce it &c.
Fixed a server configuration problem on CRUCS. If you were affected by the about 1 minute of downtime as I fumbled about with that, sorry, everything should be back in working order now.
@Taweret Fun fact: around here it used to be illegal to sell margarine that had been colored to look like butter so margarine would come with a little pack of coloring that you could mix in yourself.
One of my employees brought in a "tree storage bag" because the box our fake Christmas tree lives in most of the year is in pretty bad shape and she no longer wished to own the bag. It came with its original packaging and listed among the selling points is "Festive - Holiday x-mas colored".
The company that made this apparently thinks that the color of "x-mas," perhaps the most festive of colors, is grey.
There's work on getting decimal floats into C and I wouldn't be surprised if C++ just absorbed that once it's ready, and I would expect this to also behave better for this use case so I can revisit that decision some time next decade.
Most of the time the existing solution works just fine, but then you end up with things like 1+1.03=2.0300000000000002 (generally with slightly larger numbers since it's used for things like the roasted coffee not fitting in one bucket and adding the two bucket weights together) instead of the expected 2.03. Other options are heuristic hacks or exposing a setting for decimal places, but SQL already specifies the behavior I want so as much as I hate this "solution" I'll go with it for now.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.