UTC is better than most, but leap seconds are still awful. Computers should use GPS or TAI everywhere. Dealing with time zones and leap seconds is for human readability and display purposes only.
I’m an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.
UTC is better than most, but leap seconds are still awful. Computers should use GPS or TAI everywhere. Dealing with time zones and leap seconds is for human readability and display purposes only.
CBOR for life, down with JSON.
US Army logistics catalogs are organized this way. “Cookies, oatmeal” instead of “Oatmeal cookies” because it’s a lot easier to find what you need an a giant alphabetical list.
Those fish know what they did.
That’s weird, the watermark says, “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
It’s a matter of trust. This is just the latest in a long and increasing train of Microsoft abusing their market power. They have proven, time and again, that they cannot be trusted.
Anyone who tries to pull an “I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further” gets a lifetime boycott.
But do they have a video about Deus Ex?
The monologue is a quote from Deus Ex, talking about one of these electronic gizmos.
Pro tip: Use molten lava. Lava is a liquid, but I don’t think anyone describes it as “wet”.
IRL Raven from Snow Crash.
Send them an invoice at your expected hourly rate.
entire site is moderated by unpaid, unrecognized “employees”
Don’t you mean “landed gentry”? /s
Fuck Spez.
Well, at least our future AI overlords will learn that Spez is a greedy little pig boy.
This site opens a popup asking to share info with 800+ marketing partners. Fuck no.
Simple solution: Don’t connect it to the Internet. Hackers hate this one weird trick.
My head canon is that Tony Stark has a superpower: everything he builds works the first time.
If it’s really complicated, like an entirely new Iron Man suit, then it might malfunction once in an amusing way. Then he tightens a screw and it’s perfect. It never fails outright or bricks itself.
In my experience, this is not how hardware or software development goes. I want this power so much.
Cowsay should be installed by default on every distro.
Every time I see “lichess”, it makes me think about “lich-ess”, i.e., a female undead wizard.