Madrigal

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[–] Madrigal 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Jesus Christ, who designed that website? What an absolute abomination.

[–] Madrigal 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Madrigal 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought it was Oracle, the company of “our products are designed for one purpose alone: to tick boxes on RFPs.”

[–] Madrigal 4 points 4 weeks ago

The Y9999.999999871K bug

[–] Madrigal 2 points 4 weeks ago

Then your only challenge will be converting to and from human-friendly formats and cleansing user input. Easy.

[–] Madrigal 6 points 4 weeks ago

I asked ChatGPT for some potential solutions to the Y10K issue. I particularly enjoyed this suggestion:

Plan for Y10K Early: Build flexible and extensible systems now, with modular design to incorporate future changes seamlessly.

[–] Madrigal 3 points 4 weeks ago

It's what happens when James uses the good dining forks to unjam the cupboard door again.

[–] Madrigal 2 points 4 weeks ago

Well, that was certainly the peak of human artistic achievement.

[–] Madrigal 60 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Imagine thinking that’ll be the biggest date-related computing problem for a galactic society.

If you really want to make programmers despair, point out:

  • massive variations in day, month and year lengths on different worlds.
  • some worlds may not have “months” (no moons, or many moons).
  • ambiguous definition of “year” for multi-star systems.
  • days may be longer than years (hello Venus).
  • communication latency across interstellar distances.
  • tine dilation.
[–] Madrigal 16 points 1 month ago

Also tells us how frequently we need to issue “reminders”.

[–] Madrigal 4 points 1 month ago

Google isn’t a search engine any more. It stopped being that some years ago.

Now it’s more accurately described as a shitty content feed that can be weakly filtered using key words.

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