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lisperyesterday at 5:02 PM0 repliesview on HN

Well, at least the author is honest about it:

> The title of this post is an intentional clickbait.

Unfortunately, that's where the honesty ends.

> It's NOT OK to compare floating-points using epsilons.

> So, are epsilons good or bad? Usually bad, but sometimes okay.

So which is it? Emphatically NOT OK, or sometimes okay?