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Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by vmception on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:44AM (#28444018)
I think floating point would give the assumption that it has nothing to do with meatspace, but it would allow room for a fascinating surprise if it did!

I vote for keeping it as is.

Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by hnlmorg on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:51AM (#28444076)
If we're following HN guidelines correctly, the title should be 'Dolphin Progress Report: August 2021' -- what has been submitted has been editorialised.
Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by Agentlien on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:11AM (#28444337)
I overlooked the URL. Seeing that or the original title I would have understood what this was.

But now, my first guess was actually that this was about some much debated football match and that the floating point bug was present in some software used by the referees when reviewing replays.

Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by tokai on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:23AM (#28444481)
Football referees didn't review replays in 2013.
Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by samhw on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:15AM (#28445130)
I'm not sure what the point is of correcting a comment in which someone is _describing their mistaken former belief_. He knows it's incorrect. What does this, along with your other pedantic comments in this thread, really add?
Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by tokai on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:11AM (#28469256)
Please lurk more and learn the culture of hn.
Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by thom on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:13AM (#28444352)
I can personally attest to creating and fixing floating point bugs to do with real life football games.
Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by chromatin on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:03AM (#28444235)
Counterpoint: I assumed real life scoreboard.
Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by minitoar on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:02AM (#28444225)
I was immediately trying to figure out if it somehow had to do with a stop watch being used in meatspace.