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kps
·8 hours ago·discuss
The revolutionary French tried decimal timekeeping, but no amount of guillotines could make it stick.

Planetarily, we only need to slow the Earth's rotation by 1.46%, so that the year becomes 360 days (1 day = 1° of revolution) and I can sleep an extra 21 minutes.
kps
·8 hours ago·discuss
I get to sleep in. When do we leave?

But seriously, the ‘second’ becomes a purely technical unit, and you have some other suitable local units.
kps
·9 hours ago·discuss
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kps
·14 hours ago·discuss
For the record…

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability.” — John F Woods in comp.lang.c++ Sep 24, 1991
kps
·yesterday·discuss
It's a bit simpler. C didn't have `unsigned` until 1976.
kps
·yesterday·discuss
Then take the Sten submachine gun, designed so that every little machine shop in Britain could produce one.
kps
·2 days ago·discuss
I never liked git and held on the Mercurial until a couple years ago. Now, for all I do, jj is a better Mercurial than Mercurial.
kps
·2 days ago·discuss
[0] Gives me HTTP 418
kps
·4 days ago·discuss
The way I see it: Volume 7 is compilation. Since many optimization techniques are NP-complete, Knuth will have to take a break from writing TAOCP to settle whether or not P=NP.
kps
·4 days ago·discuss
I think there's a proof that he can at best asymptotically approach volume 7.
kps
·5 days ago·discuss
Metaphor for creative works from before 2025?
kps
·5 days ago·discuss
That's… good. It's a page-snapping scrollbar. Much better than the common row of dots and arrows.
kps
·5 days ago·discuss
> It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell

tl;dr:

> Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
kps
·8 days ago·discuss
You had lower case? In my day...
kps
·8 days ago·discuss
In my part of Canada it's illegal and allowed.
kps
·9 days ago·discuss
Pet peeve: If I go to google.ca and ask [1 gallon to liters], it uses US gallons. (But if I ask [1 pint to ml] it gets it right.)
kps
·9 days ago·discuss
> American voices always sound like parodies or the Walmart greeter.

Timer set for “thirdy minnids”. Unfortunately the others also sound like parodies in their own way — the Californian's idea of en_GB, “Oi, you go' a loicense for that thir'y minute timah?”
kps
·11 days ago·discuss
> I believe this is because of how Mac is designed

Yes, that they actually got sleep working properly.
kps
·11 days ago·discuss
No, restarting is an occasional unfortunate workaround for subsystems that don't properly update in place (e.g. OS kernel).
kps
·12 days ago·discuss
Remember when NeXT acquired Apple for negative 400 million?