It's also interesting how much you pull from life experiences when writing character. Your perspective combined with being able to re-evaluate earlier relationships in a more-healthy manner makes for excellent writing material, the pain you had to endure to get to this point be damned.

The first one has excellent composition.

Can you please elaborate on the "pattern recognition" part?

(If you know why it's called that, ILY.)

The fork is approaching its release, after a few months of on-and-off work in my free time. I wanted to get some affairs – like what level of accuracy I can guarantee – in order before a release. This is me cleaning the house before the guests come in.

My issue was that I couldn't add the features I needed easily, because the library is no longer maintained, so no matter how many PRs I file, they aren't likely to be included.

Plus, I wanted to bring my own ideas into it. I figured if I'm going to adopt it, I'm going to make it truly my own.

Forgot to describe the context for "this":

"This" is for a library I'm developing as a TypeScript-first fork of `js-quantities`, an extensive unit-conversion library. I've been using it for a while for a personal project (see @frontiermods.bsky.social), and it works well.

(Also, I'm not gonna say I've *solved* floating-point error correction in JS, but... All I'm gonna say is that there's no library out there for it. Either that, or the cryptocurrency libraries flood out any legitimate uses of `snap` on NPM.)

At 1M iterations, the performance is only +500% to +600% over a simple division. Sounds awful, but considering how much we cram into those extra nanoseconds, I'm very happy with the result.

There's probably a bunch more oomph a skilled engineer could cram out of it, but I'm not one, so... :P

As if to illustrate my point, here are the likes under the post above:

Well, I've done *something* for it. The algo is not ideal: it doesn't handle obvious noise like 1.0000000000001 (13 decimal places) because that's too close, epsilon-wise. I'm sure I can figure something out before release date (which is this year, I promise! Yes, it's been 6 months, so what?)

Turns out, coming up with an algorithm to fix floating-point fuckery on the fly isn't easy. Who would've thought?

Yeah, but it's a separate adapter. Comes with, but still, feels like cheating.

The modern one looks slick for its size: www.pcna.com/en-us/produc...

I think my(?) generation had "worst thing ever" for "meh".

Not having an extreme, sharp, or cutting opinion about something – or one at all – is a useful mental tool that I feel isn't being propagated through the culture with enough backpressure.