Because no one around me understood how to calculate false positive/false negative probabilities, I put together this calculator[1] in 2020.

[1]: https://www.covid2020.icu/false-positive-false-negative-simu...

> Governments need to wake up to this insane level of Evil

Governments are made up of people. People who have at best median level understanding of the things they are ruling about but great self-interest in following the biggest purse to which they can attach themselves.

This looks good, but, I noticed:

> Supported Functions (v1) > SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, IF

I would recommend switching to numerically stable algorithms for adding numbers and taking their averages sooner rather than later.

Looking at the code[1], it looks like you are simply summing the numbers and dividing by count. If that is indeed the case, please switch to a stable average[2]. See also [3].

Additionally, I tried to test the executable[4] on Windows, but there is something wrong with input. Using Windows Terminal Version: 1.24.10921.0, characters are doubled on input. Regular Vim compiled using Visual C++ does not have this issue.

When I press `:`, I get `::` in the COMMAND line. Then, every key I press gets doubled. This means I cannot `:q!`. :-)

[1]: https://github.com/garritfra/cell/blob/99b0afc7a60a871b27452...

[2]: https://www.nu42.com/2015/03/how-you-average-numbers.html

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_var...

[4]: https://github.com/garritfra/cell/releases/tag/v0.2.0

This is valuable feedback. I opened two issues to track this:

Use numerically stable algorithms for SUM and AVERAGE: https://github.com/garritfra/cell/issues/43

Keystrokes doubled in Windows Terminal: https://github.com/garritfra/cell/issues/44

Thanks!

I was able to test the keystroke-doubling and that works well in Windows Terminal now. I am going to try out the formulas later.

Interesting. Last time I dealt with currency in SQL (which was well over a decade ago admittedly), we used a fixed point format for those fields.

What do you recon Excel does, floating point math for regular entries and lossless point math for currency? Or just does not rely on floats at all?

Might want to add /sarc just in case someone believes it :-)

> 2026-02-22 by GIMP Team

I am confused

> This interview took place on February 4th, 2017

No need to be confused, the opening paragraphs explain the discrepancy

> Unfortunately, the rest of the interviews from that event have never seen the light of day - until now!

Not really -- It invites speculation as to why they were not published for 9 years. And, are the words spoken a decade ago still valid?

They weren't published because the person who interviewed everyone is now the project maintainer, and ran out of time to do transcriptions. :)

I volunteered to help with transcription, so I was given several audio recordings and started working on them. The first "resurfaced" one was Simon Budig: https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/11/01/simon-budig-interview-w...

There's about 4 more from another event which I'll be working on between coding and other things. There's definitely some material that's a bit dated (for instance, the comment about non-destructive editing), but I think it's still interesting insight into development.

Sure, but it explains the dates. Which is all that you originality highlighted as your confusion. Perhaps you can query them directly about your other curiosities?

I think the interview is interesting regardless if some of the details within are dated or not.

HTML + CSS works great for this kind of thing. Once you get the print scope correct, you really never need to think about it again.

> too much punctuation

I thought you were joking. ... After a while, I started expecting a comma after each and every word.

The crossover waiting to happen

It is your twist and unjustifiable generalization of the author's words about the author himself:

> "aging is a synonym of cognitive decline"

compared to:

> As I near 60, I’ve come to realize I simply don’t have the same mental sharpness or stamina I used to.

The author did not say anything about anyone else.

Synoym: https://www.bennetyee.org/http_webster.cgi?isindex=synonym&m...

This is why Firefox's changes are so frustrating[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096

The perfect opportunity to attract more market share, but instead they are shooting themselves in the foot at exactly the wrong time.