You seem to be confusing C stdlib with a CLI?

Dashboard is a UI fed by signal processing code which is the backend.

A definition so broad as to be useless.

Is it a UI when someone calls memcpy to move data from a file to a screen buffer?

Data visualization ≠ UI and signal processing is traditionally done in C

Go there for a warm bier and tell us how your trip was.

Do no harm.

So don’t give patient data to the secret police.

They’re kidnapping people off the streets and throwing them into concentration camps but that’s what you call fascism?

If you’re setting off fireworks, you have no expectation of privacy.

It’s shouting “look at me!” for miles around.

Thanks for teaching me something, but the obscurity of your answer just illustrates how rare that requirement is in human readable formats, and mostly limited to data formats designed for numeric precision, like HDF5, FITS or protobuf.

What text based serialization formats do enforce numeric precision?

AFAIK it’s always left up to the writer (serializer)

If you’re using a library to handle deserialization , the ugliness of the serial format doesn’t matter that much.

Just call yaml.load() and forget about it.

Orthodox Jewish families managed to do just fine without plastic for thousands of years.

These ones think they need to destroy the environment instead of learning to wash.

Putting it in a DB is the easy part.

It’s support in a thousand other systems that deal with addresses that’s the real problem.

For something like a street address, interoperability is a hell of a lot more important than culturally preferred spelling.

Why do you care?

You’re either giving fame to an asshole or else trying to start a harassment campaign.

I absolutely do not want Amazon or any parts of the surveillance state learning anything about the privacy of my home.

It’s money.

They’d have to pay for training, which costs money.

I never minded studying, but always hated writing essays, even though pretty good at it.

How do we train people to think, and validate that they learned, when they can outsource it to a computer?

The author alludes to oral exams, though they have a whole host of other issues.

If cherry growing doesn’t pay without government subsidies, it’s not a viable business.

The YouTube engineers working on advertising are tasked with maximizing revenue, not making the user experience better.

It’s a de-facto monopoly and the only way to get better user experience is through adblock.

While taking the day off to play golf, he tells us we don’t deserve a day off if it honors anyone non-white.