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I have noticed a worrying trend in computer science where topics that are have surprising, non-intuitive properties are now taught as “oh, treat this as a magic black box, you will never understand it”. I hate this as people then “teach” by discouraging exploration in the space
@saagar knew this would be about floats before i read the follow-up post and yeah, i find this intensely frustrating
@saagar we put so much effort into providing predictable behaviour and then users throw up their hands and say there are no rules and things are useless