stangel

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[–] stangel@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Well the solution to our "not enough bits" problem has been generally available for 20 years. Signed bigint time would cover from the Permian Period until 290 million years from now, down to ms precision. That ought to be good enough for most use cases.

[–] stangel@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You get over 584 million years in 2^64 ms. 66-bit computers are a bit tough to come by!

[–] stangel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Milliseconds since the epoch is the only true time

[–] stangel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

A few days ago my TCL Roku TV got an update that offered (enabled by default) a new "Smart Picture" feature that supposedly obviates the need to set the picture mode manually. That seems like something worth investigating here.

https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/Roku-Smart-Picture-how-where-to-ask-ROKU-to-let-us-turn-this-quot-feature-quot-off/td-p/980373

[–] stangel@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The benefits the Peace Corps provides the US is a hundred-fold its meager costs. Cutting this program is grotesquely short-sighted.

[–] stangel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm with e8d79 on that one. Whatever your intent when posting the original message, the way it reads is tone deaf at best and entitled at worst.

[–] stangel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Whenever you see "no fear of humans," you know you're reading propaganda.