sprogrammerhumor·Programmer Humorbysiriusmart realistic community chest cardrepost from the hyprland discord, where i first found this memeView original on lemmy.ml995Comments17
ssiriusmart replylemmy.mli remember that runescape meme of 2147M gold, tho ive never played the game before21
ssome_guy lemmy.sdf.org1Hide 1 replyAs I viewed this, I turned to the literal check from a class action suit that payed me $0.64. I haven't deposited it because why bother except that I will deposit it because it's the only way to hold corps to account.50
GGrepfruit replylemmy.mlI must've put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit, I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.1
jjol discuss.tchncs.deFloating point error. You owed 0.0000004 but with interest now you owe 500. It's our fault but you still have to pay.15
HHopFlop replydiscuss.tchncs.deIf that's Bitcoin then this would actually give you, at the current exchange rate of BTC to USD: 0.000000000002557444% USD. If you got that card once every milliscond, you would need 31 years to have 2.5$. I doubt you'd be rich with one card except lol.5
IIce lemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesIirc there was some danish bank IT guy who stole every unit of currency smaller than 10^-4 in his banks transactions. Pretty neat until he got caught7
IIce replylemmy.worldIt's a story I heard from my dad a few years ago, tried looking it up now, but.. well this is the best I found: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-salami-technique/ https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/14925/has-a-programmer-ever-embezzled-money-by-shaving-fractions-of-a-cent-from-many-b3
I prefer the 32 bit signed integer underflow in my favor.
You have to have debt like Donald Trump to be able to hit that.
Or choose the right currency
i remember that runescape meme of 2147M gold, tho ive never played the game before
As I viewed this, I turned to the literal check from a class action suit that payed me $0.64. I haven't deposited it because why bother except that I will deposit it because it's the only way to hold corps to account.
If your bank has mobile deposit use that so you can keep the physical check
Basically the scheme from Office Space
Basically the scheme from
Office SpaceSuperman IIII must've put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit, I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
Floating point error. You owed 0.0000004 but with interest now you owe 500. It's our fault but you still have to pay.
If that's Bitcoin I'm gonna be rich
If that's Bitcoin then this would actually give you, at the current exchange rate of BTC to USD:
0.000000000002557444% USD. If you got that card once every milliscond, you would need 31 years to have 2.5$.
I doubt you'd be rich with one card except lol.
Iirc there was some danish bank IT guy who stole every unit of currency smaller than 10^-4 in his banks transactions. Pretty neat until he got caught
How the fuck did he do that, and how did they find that?
It's a story I heard from my dad a few years ago, tried looking it up now, but.. well this is the best I found:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-salami-technique/
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/14925/has-a-programmer-ever-embezzled-money-by-shaving-fractions-of-a-cent-from-many-b
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