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Yes it does bother me a little that the letters in the latter half of my username can’t be written backwards. (Well, some can, and the p can become a q, but then it’s not a p any more.)

The last thing I messed around with choked on some wide characters that weren’t in the current locale, so I guess picture the top half of the burger bun, about two thirds of the top part of the patty, a small pile of raw ingredients off to the side and some inexplicable six-inch nails through the raw meat, maybe.

Most of the rest of the stuff I do could be compared to those nouvelle cuisine jokes that have been running since the 1980s. Large plate, inexplicably small serving of something allegedly gourmet but is probably a cube of the cheapest pâté from the closest supermarket that was flash frozen and then stylishly drizzled in jus de menthe or something.

Bon appetit

Has he actually gone to the great Chinese restaurant in the sky this time?

Pretty sure there was a hoax that he’d died a while back, and though there is a Wikipedia article for “Democracy Manifest”, the way it’s written and put together doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

Do you not know why people would want to block lemmy.ml?

“Uh, Boss, our customers are sending us the invoices for their RAM purchases.”

“Just a heads up that we’ll be shipping your machine to the client, since it’s the only machine on Earth known to support the software. You’re getting the spare machine out of the basement. Super fast Cyrix processor. Looks like it boots to Windows 11 release 3, but they’ve written it 3.11 for some reason.”

O((2⁽ⁿ2))!) or bust.

Pizza Man reminds me of Pumpkin from Baman and Piderman.

To be fair, quite a lot of work was done to ensure that things didn’t go wrong when the year changed over, and some things still did go wrong (and still do if you know where to poke), but thankfully there weren’t any globally affecting ones. Mitigations were in place in plenty of time. I can’t recall any specific tragedies, but I would be surprised if there wasn’t a handful of those.

More humorously, many, many websites started the new year with their auto-generated year showing as 19100, because no-one thought to fix that.

32-bit time / the 2038 problem is a similar kind of deal and steady work has been under way probably since Y2K was cleared.

So yeah, we do need to get ahead of the technology (AI this time) like we do with everything else, but we shouldn’t get too worked up about it because the experts have things under control.

Right…?

“I used to be able to Google like you, but then they changed what Google was and now what I can do doesn’t work, and what you have to do seems weird and scary to me.”

Well, he does have the retort “Why are you wearing that stupid man-suit?”, which kind of fits the theme here.

Meanwhile, Mbin’s over here like, “what am I? chopped liver?”

It’s basically Lemmy and Mastodon rolled into one.

They still don’t like to talk about the fact that it’s Greenwich and not Paris that’s the prime meridian.

But sure, I didn’t explicitly connect the dots.

Stealing from another commenter: Are you OK with referring to days of the week as Tuesday/Wednesday, or do you propose abandoning day names altogether? If you say your local day is Tuesday which doesn’t align with someone else’s Tuesday, you’ve still got the old time-zone problem just at a coarser grain.

As for “secondary time” yes. That’s called local time. Which is what the initial proposal was trying to be rid of.

Now riddle me this: What time do you have your computer’s motherboard set to?

I never said the time zone was GMT, only that the meridian is Greenwich. Subtle, yes, but if the meridian for UTC isn’t the one running through Greenwich, let me know.

Implementing such a change has another problem: Who gets to have the time-zone that’s noon at noon?

Are we going to let the British continue to get away with it? Even the excuse of “that’s the way it has to be to keep things simple” would cause the French to revolt. Again. They still don’t like to talk about the fact that it’s Greenwich and not Paris that’s the prime meridian.

Swatch’s “Internet time” was a decimal system designed to mitigate the problem because no-one would have any idea what the old time was supposed to be, but people are used to the base-60 system. It didn’t and won’t catch on.

And it doesn’t fix the “0 isn’t my midnight” problem, which is pretty close to the original.

It also doesn’t fix the “what time of day is it elsewhere in the world” problem, which still requires knowledge of time differences. You know. Time zones.

There’s often a rule about not wishing about wishing, either directly or indirectly. This rule’s not in the story of Aladdin (at least, not Disney’s version) because that would prevent what happens with Jafar at the end.

It’s also not a rule in Douglas Hofstadter’s book Gödel, Escher, Bach…, where Achilles and the Tortoise - characters Hofstadter frequently borrows as protagonists; his Tortoise is sapient and can talk - contrive to wish that a wish not be granted, or something like that.

And if that last paragraph (with its nested asides) gave you a headache, you’ll love the book.

I am the queen of France (drums start) (wavy arm dance begin)

No, this is an actual irony.

Humanity is unable to remember, for any length of time, a fact about whether goldfish can remember things for any length of time.