I agree, it's almost motion-sickness inducing.

Plus it looks very unrealistic; quite eerie.

Like interpolating pixels in the uncanny valley.

From the History section on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Chuck Weiss explains why he created DUAL:

I created the DUAL table as an underlying object in the Oracle Data Dictionary. It was never meant to be seen itself, but instead used inside a view that was expected to be queried. The idea was that you could do a JOIN to the DUAL table and create two rows in the result for every one row in your table. Then, by using GROUP BY, the resulting join could be summarized to show the amount of storage for the DATA extent and for the INDEX extent(s). The name, DUAL, apt for the process of creating a pair of rows from just one.[1]

The original DUAL table had two rows in it (hence its name), but subsequently it only had one row.

Oracle created a table called dual.
One row, one column.
It's a singular name (not "duals").
It's called dual because it used to contain 2 rows.

Isn't Mark a male name?

This is a much more cerebral fooling than some years.

I'm enjoying it (just as much as other recent changes).

Now can you hack in some code to make :like: display as a thumbs-up image, just for today? :-)

This story is a blatant Slashvertisement!

I remember when it was all much less blatant :-)

(18-digit UID, today)

Of course :-)

But I think you meant UTF-1000010001110100000111001001000

I never realised it was in hex.

Always thought it was octal.

I guess it could have been any integer base >= 6.
(obviously not 10 though, that would be far too silly)

btw, are there ever any rogue 6 scores these days?

You mean UTF-1000

I'm disappointed "scores" wan't translated to "10100s"

Something like a battery. Like all drones already carry.
Depending on size and chemistry, a hot jet engine isn't going to a good place for it to get into.

What aboot this one, eh?

You don't need a system to detect "High-Tech Sharks"...

...you can see their laser-beams easily.

It's fine for a small amount, e.g. zero.

The next smallest amount 0.01 can not be held exactly in a Double. Nor can 0.1

DO NOT USE DOUBLE FOR MONEY.

(or for any figures which need to be stored exactly)

Multiply everything up by the required factors of 10 and store the value as an integer, e.g. a number of cents.

Or write your own decimal class, maybe with an integer to hold the dollars and another for the cents (and another for the tenths or hundredths if you need them).

TLDR Stupid people are usually too stupid to realise that they're stupid.

Ha ha ha, that's really funny, and smart, like me. Wait - why have I got the vague feeling like someone's been talking about me, and not in a nice way?