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HenryJLittlefinger posted:It's OK, you don't need to walk around in circles about it.
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car dance posted:Am I missing something, why would anyone say they'd ban crime? Isn't crime already banned? Is he making a joke that I'm missing? Does he understand? Ben also said that people in Florida can sell their homes when rising sea levels put them underwater so it's not even bad anyway.
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Inceltown posted:Ben also said that people in Florida can sell their homes when rising sea levels put them underwater so it's not even bad anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHZFwZ-a8kI
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Ror posted:OK, I'll bite, what is Unix time if not seconds from the start of the Unix epoch? I am a dumb normie and it seems like wikipedia is telling me that's exactly what it is. If you counted seconds since 00:00:00 on 1 January 1970, you would find your count ahead of Unix time on most computers by twenty‑seven seconds. Unix time treats all days as having 86400 seconds. This is not always strictly true. Under UTC, December 31 2016 did not have 86400 seconds. It had 86401 seconds. 23:59:59 was followed not by 00:00:00 of the next day, but by 23:59:60. The way that Unix time represents UTC isn’t to entirely ignore the lap second and keep counting, but to create ambiguous timestamps. The time “1483228799” covers a period of two metric seconds. How much time elapsed between measurements made at “1483228700” and “1483228880”? Why, that would be one hundred and eighty‐one seconds. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 03:38 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Platystemon posted:The way that Unix time represents UTC isn’t to entirely ignore the The time “1483228799” covers a period of two metric seconds. How much time elapsed between measurements made at “1483228700” and “1483228980”? Why, that would be one hundred and eighty‐one seconds. Time really is the worst dimension. I have a friend who worked on some synchronization stuff with LIGO, and time only gets way worse the more you look at it
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Kei Technical posted:Time really is the worst dimension. I have a friend who worked on some synchronization stuff with LIGO, and time only gets way worse the more you look at it When it comes down to it, we care about time because it relates to the universe around us, and the universe is shockingly irregular. Leap seconds exist because Earth is slowing in its rotation, mostly because the Moon is stealing its angular momentum, but with unpredictable short‐term variation due to changing mass distribution on Earth. The same tectonic shifts that we feel as earthquakes make measurable changes to how fast Earth spins. Even climate change is having effects You can’t both fix the second to a physical constant (as SI does, realized in atomic clocks) and have all days be 86400 seconds long on a planet whose day–night cycle changes. Something has to give. The current bureaucratic consensus is to abolish leap seconds in UTC, which at first blush doesn’t solve anything. What it does do is trick everyone into moving to what is effectively TAI or GPS time, despite having specified UTC±x as the nation’s official time in their legal codes. This will kick the can down the road long enough that it’s a problem for CyberPope Gregory XIII in the twenty‐second century.
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Why don't we just change time so that it matches reality rather than trying to distort reality to match time? Seems like we could fix that easy as long as we just get everyone on the planet to agree to this new system.
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Inceltown posted:Why don't we just change time so that it matches reality rather than trying to distort reality to match time? Seems like we could fix that easy as long as we just get everyone on the planet to agree to this new system. This is the precise opposite of what we should be doing, which is building space elevators so that we can bend the Earth’s angular momentum to our will.
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You loving people and your loving derails about the dumbest poo poo Lol
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Mx. posted:You loving people and your loving derails about the dumbest poo poo Hey, look: it's about time.
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https://twitter.com/repmtg/status/1623370535634669577?s=46&t=TqO-IgB2WGquDyTq6XMlvA Ok so not a particularly idiotic tweet given who it is, but when the Oxford comma fails it can be pretty funny.
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Inceltown posted:Why don't we just change time so that it matches reality rather than trying to distort reality to match time? Seems like we could fix that easy as long as we just get everyone on the planet to agree to this new system. The problem is that there are two durations that are the important ones for tracking time (the time it takes the earth to rotate and the time it takes the earth to revolve around the sun) and the one duration doesn't fit evenly into the other
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The problem is that computers need greater precision than "like half an hour after sunrise" or "around noon"
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Mx. posted:You loving people and your loving derails about the dumbest poo poo it's trite, but sometimes the idiots on social media are the
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Piell posted:The problem is that there are two durations that are the important ones for tracking time (the time it takes the earth to rotate and the time it takes the earth to revolve around the sun) and the one duration doesn't fit evenly into the other If only it were that simple.
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Piell posted:The problem is that there are two durations that are the important ones for tracking time (the time it takes the earth to rotate and the time it takes the earth to revolve around the sun) and the one duration doesn't fit evenly into the other Then we just need to change the number system to one that allows it to match up.
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just explode the earth, that solves every problem
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kirbysuperstar posted:ground floor on this new derail Oh good, the first floor!
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Some home grown IOSM https://twitter.com/wolicyponk/status/1564419509993488387?t=CR6B9k7-lrbzF5Li1cNxHQ&s=19
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We wouldn't have this loving derail if we'd just adopted Swatch Internet Time as god intended
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I'm pretty sure SuperMechaGodzilla is the greatest poster of all time.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:We wouldn't have this loving derail if we'd just adopted Swatch Internet Time as god intended phantasy star online was RIGHT dammit I did really really want a beats watch in my early teens..
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kirbysuperstar posted:phantasy star online was RIGHT dammit
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FFT posted:The problem is that computers need greater precision than "like half an hour after sunrise" or "around noon" You say that, but do they really? Honestly, society would be a lot better if we ditched the clocks and just did everything off gut feeling. "Store hours: after I finish eating breakfast until I get hungry again."
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stupid question but given how small "ticks" of the caesium atom are, why didnt they just make it a nice round number. hell find another element that's closest to 12 trillion so a trillion teraseconds is the second.
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The H4 design marine chronometer is plenty accurate. If it was good enough for Captain Cook, it's good enough for me.
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Kenning posted:I'm pretty sure SuperMechaGodzilla is the greatest poster of all time. He was usually terrible but the Mace Windu post is fine art.
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PhazonLink posted:stupid question but given how small "ticks" of the caesium atom are, why didnt they just make it a nice round number. hell find another element that's closest to 12 trillion so a trillion teraseconds is the second. You couldn’t round it by much without major problems. Its present value is 9 192 631 770. If you rounded it to, say, 9 190 000 000, which is really not very round at all, you’d be accumulating about a half minute of error per day. A year from now, solar noon occurs at about 9:30 in the morning. Within five years, noon and midnight have swapped.
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Kei Technical posted:Time really is the worst dimension. I have a friend who worked on some synchronization stuff with LIGO, and time only gets way worse the more you look at it The more we look into it, the clearer it is that counting and measuring things in general is a tremendous mistake. Many are saying this. Platystemon posted:You couldn’t round it by much without major problems. steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 08:17 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Captain Monkey posted:dumb and bad Americans are (...) dumb and bad (...) terrible
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Karia posted:You say that, but do they really? Honestly, society would be a lot better if we ditched the clocks and just did everything off gut feeling. "Store hours: after I finish eating breakfast until I get hungry again."
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Karia posted:You say that, but do they really? Honestly, society would be a lot better if we ditched the clocks and just did everything off gut feeling. "Store hours: after I finish eating breakfast until I get hungry again." Need to abolish capitalism first, I sure as hell am not accepting payment for "time management figures I've been working".
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Kei Technical posted:Time really is the worst dimension. I have a friend who worked on some synchronization stuff with LIGO, and time only gets way worse the more you look at it Small world, I have a friend on the LIGO team
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Baron von Eevl posted:Oh good, the first floor! This is anti-lobby rhetoric. You lobbyist.
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Karia posted:You say that, but do they really? Honestly, society would be a lot better if we ditched the clocks and just did everything off gut feeling. "Store hours: after I finish eating breakfast until I get hungry again." Brian Wilson opened a health food store in 1969 and operated it himself. He didn't like schedules so he'd just kind of open it when he felt like it, usually after dinner. It folded within a year.
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