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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Assuming they're checking the emails at all.

Remember when that guy decided to read a book while his Tesla was doing basic lane following, and merged into a semi? I 'member.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's broken then. You at the very least need to have addressed which airplanes are being discussed before pulling out a pronoun.

Piece of shit book.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Depending on context, this might not be wrong. It could be part of an "it is an airplane" -> "they are a few airplanes" -> "they are so many airplanes!" progression.

Is it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I... Actually don't know.

The real time clock continues to move in real time under reasonable conditions. If it's in a weird year it's either because you've decided to run a disk you found in a cave, left by the Ancient Ones, or you're cheating at Animal Crossing.

I'm a little unclear on how the rest of the clocks typically work together. If your program is drawing from one that gets stopped for a while, I guess yeah, a minute could totally be weeks long, and I'm in the picture as a falsehood believer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Actually, while mathematically heavy, it's easy to measure in GR, assuming you've got a metric solved (If you don't, you're fucked. That shit is intractable to the point where you can name every exact solution on one page, and inexact solutions can just be lies) However, you may have to ask additional questions about what sort of time you want, which probably stems from why you need it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  1. Ok, but the time on the server clock and time on the client clock would never be different by a matter of decades.
  2. The system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far future.

Does this come up? I feel like if you're doing retrocomputing you assume a certain level of responsibility for your software breaking.

  1. Ok, but the duration of one minute on the system clock will be pretty close to the duration of one minute on most other clocks.
  2. Fine, but the duration of one minute on the system clock would never be more than an hour.
  3. You can’t be serious.

You can't be, can you? Ditto on that being the user's problem. My thing also isn't portable onto Zeus Z-2 or a billiard ball computer you built in your garage.

There's some weird shit in the crowdsourced ones. I don't even know where to start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Clock misalignment comes up pretty frequently in some networking and networking-esque applications. Otherwise, yeah, the edge cases are indeed on the edge.

Subsecond precision comes up often in common applications too, but you can just expand out to milliseconds or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm guessing it's not alone. Every time format should come with a distance function and order function, or equivalent. If you have a life, that could mean something like subtraction.

Unfortunately, "should" isn't always enough. Optimally there's also type structure to the return of the function so you can't mix up seconds and days, or calendar and (one of the) standard length days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Re: The mouseover text, is there a standard frame of reference for really general space stuff? I propose a frame comoving with the CMB and reaching the center of the Earth at Epoch 0 if not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How often does grandpa ask you what GitHub is?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Inb4 the JavaScript fanboys appear and argue a bad tool is fine if you're a genius, actually. Why aren't you a genius?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

If only there was a website called "StreamHub" or something.

Honestly the content vs. characteristic method of delivery distinction is subtle enough this is still a great way of explaining.

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