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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you can't beat 'em, swallow them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Not saying wrong but that movie came out in '99, so I think a retro of the 90s would be closer to mid to early 90s since there's that bleed over to the early '00 decade. Of course I'm older so maybe that part would be included, just more considered it 00s era.

Since I didn't comment otherwise I'll mention Xtreme sports, frosted hair colours, and some neon bleed over (though not cyberpunk levels) from the 80s for a 90s retro.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Cause as DPS it's harder to find a group.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How do you find which one you want with 150 open? Genuinely curious is all, I'm old and mostly use PC and can type quick enough to find what I want if I know which site (wikis for games and such). If I had to scroll through 150 tabs I'd spend half the time looking through a list so wonder how it helps to have that many open. Or maybe I just don't read fast enough to scroll well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I thought it had to be a joke article from the title. Yeesh wouldn't want to be the person who gets the fallout from this idea.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not if the place doesn't do daylight savings time, and not all places in a timezone will do that (least in North America) so you need extra code if they do or do not. It becomes a pain after awhile when you do it in multiple projects. Technically one extra setting but it's still a pain to make sure it's handle properly in all cases, especially when the previous programmer decided to handle it for each case individually, but that's a different issue.

Also when you deal with the times, say in .Net you gotta make sure it's the proper kind of date otherwise it decides it's a local system date and will change it to system local when run. Sure it's all handled but there are many easy mistakes to make when working with time.

I probably didn't even get to the real reason, I sort of picked this up on my own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

As a kid I rarely listened to anything, these days I put on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show, just go bacl to the start I've heard up to the third phase often but not the further ones as much. In the more recent past it may have been a Harry Potter (UK) book or again Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy voiced by Stephen Fry. Guess that's a lot of UK stuff considering I'm Canadian, but Fry has such a nice voice to drift off to.

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

According to a few Google searches it was a physisict Hugh Everett in the late 50s. I am sure there were others in more meta and philosophical concepts in the past but I get the idea he is the known physicist to come up with it.

Disclaimer I didn't read a lot but his name came up a few times and I assume he had a theory that could relate to physics at the time.

I still like that Flash was probably the first for pop culture, when weird time travel started happening in other shows (after deep into Flash recent series) I started joking it was just Barry messing up crap between the multiverse and time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

First year programming in the late 90s .. segmentation fault? I put printfs everywhere. Heh. You'd still get faults before the prints happened, such a pain to debug while learning. Though we weren't really taught your point of the comment at the time.

Least that was my experience on an AIX system not sure if that was general or not, the crash before a print I mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I heard him knocking on his chest after reading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

In Canada ours have a sticker that says the amounts are calibrated to a certain temperature (15C I think), so I assumed it took that into account. I try not to think about how much it costs so didn't over analyze it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Soon it'll be, ' give birth in our facilities then you can work when you're finished with labour, don't worry we can provide education and daycare as long as you sign an indentured servitude for you and the new employee'.

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