• El Tranquilo (unregistered)

    900719925474099 is JavaScript's Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, i.e. 2^53–1

  • RegisteredReply (unregistered)

    9,007,199,254,740,991 = 0x001F_FFFF_FFFF_FFFF (i.e. 2^53 - 1)

  • Hanzito (unregistered) in reply to RegisteredReply

    Which happens to be the maximum value for an integer in Javascript, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER. Surely a coincidence.

  • erffrfez (unregistered) in reply to El Tranquilo

    so 2^53 is a multiple of 100?

  • (nodebb)

    It is not an integral power of 2. "9 007 199 254 740 992 emails a day" is an integral power of two (it's 0x20000000000000, i.e. 1<<53)

    Addendum 2025-04-11 08:37: Goddamn markdown quoting syntax.

  • (nodebb)

    If you don't use a Sentinel, perhaps you could use a Terminator.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    I actually prefer sentinels like this--by making the in-band answer impossible you ensure nobody get plausible but wrong results. If it's going to fail make it fail obviously. (Not to say that there shouldn't be something out of band, just that even if there is the in-band should be obviously wrong.)

  • Scragar (unregistered)

    The GENERIC_ERROR_MESSAGE seems like it's coming from the common usage of angular's translate plugin when the translations fail to load.

    This BTW is why the generic error translations should be a static file to avoid potential issues where loading the translations can fail(even if you just write that static file any time you update your translations).

  • (nodebb)

    I'd have liked to see a button labeled "Re-Unsubscribe".

    That would be a great head scratcher.

  • The Andrew G your mother warned you about (unregistered)

    For those of you lucky enough not to have been in the States or reading the news while this dumb story played out, products with names like "Nichole floral velvet reversible throw pillow" with obviously incorrect prices, specifically on Wayfair, were the subject of a QAnon conspiracy theory that these were not pillows for sale, but an actual human named, e.g., Nichole.

    Yes, it's as dumb as it sounds, & now I think about it, if they're offering "Free Delivery" worldwide, that price is probably too low anyway.

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