Enlighten us oh god of knowledge and back your words.
By the way, you're missing the WHOLE point of the article. In our custom solution, we're actually using queues, this was simple article to give some light on a recurrent problem.
And yes, the PHP community is highly populated by people that doesn't understand the difference between a double and a float, which indeed is something shared with the Unity community, and that's visible in a lot of code you see out there.
By the way, what games have you worked on? I'd love to check them.