bouh

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[–] bouh 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's not hijacking code. That's working on a data flow.

[–] bouh 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So you argue that video game anti-cheat should prevent good technology from existing. Cool cool cool.

[–] bouh 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Language is also a social construct.

So, let's put it this way. Let's say you have this nonsensical idea of a unique timezone for the planet. We'll base it on UTC for simplicity.

You are in new York. It's 1000. For you in new York, it's the middle of night. You'll wake up in a few hours. Your day usually goes about with wake up and work around 1400, lunch around 1800, end of work around 2200, sleep around 600. You can live you life with that. It's merely a social construct. It's completely stupid as a construct because it's not setup for your actual day. The 0 means absolutely nothing. The 12 and the 24 neither. Why have a 24 hours clock for this? But a decimal clock would do nothing more.

Now you need to work with someone in the UK. Can you talk to him right now? Who knows? You need to ask Internet about the time delay between where you live and where he lives. You learn it's +6. Or -6. Who cares. Now you juggle with 2 times at your work: your usual one, and your colleague one. Congrats, you made a timezone again. When you need to know when he starts work, you do the maths : 1400-600=800. He must starts at 800, unless there's some cultural differences.

Now what you call 1800 is called 1200 for him. You made the same concept, the lunch time, have a different name depending on where you live, and that is after the translation.

Why even have a time at this point. It's more confusing than anything. Let's just have minutes.

You'll have wakeup +200 for example. At wakeup +400, it's midday. Midday +400 is the break. Break+400 is dinner. Dinner +400 is sleepy time. Now that would be much more sensible than your unified clock. There would still be problem with timezones interaction.

But there's nothing to do about timezones. It's and effect of the spherical earth and general relativity. In physics, there is a clock for each and every position, and a delay between each. Most of the time it doesn't matter, so you use your local time. But when it does, you do timezones. Because that's how the world physically works.

[–] bouh 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Timezones exist because that's how time make sense everywhere.

Je joke works because the earth is a sphere btw. It's not a joke, it's a fact. That's the whole point.

[–] bouh 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand the question very well, it was asked a week or two ago.

This doesn't simplify anything for anyone because then time would mean nothing. Because of this people would not use this system anyway.

[–] bouh 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

That time means nothing anymore. Time is something real, not a mere number that's irrelevant to reality. Midday is the middle of the day and the zenith of the sun, or close enough. Midnight is the middle of the night. Etc. It doesn't need to be exact, but it needs to mean something. In France for example 4PM is the name of the snack you eat that this time.

[–] bouh -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We already have it: it's called UTC. You should read about it probably, instead of asking the whole fucking world to change its uses for your convenience, shouldn't you?

[–] bouh 13 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Whether you realise it or not, there are two hours you are using here. Your local time that you suppose is automatically converted in your brain, and the international time that you can already use and is called UTC.

Learn to use UTC, problem solved.

Why do you want to create problems when there is a solution already?

[–] bouh 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not about the economy. It's the soviet era again, the dictatorship, which is extremely antagonist to research and innovation.

For innovation to happen, you need many people, and especially high ranked ones, to admit that something can improve. And then you need the system to highlight true solutions rather than favour your friends and family.

USSR was plagued by these kind of problems. Russia seems somehow even worse.

[–] bouh 0 points 1 year ago

Going that way, there's no reason to completely lose a fight in BG3. You can flee and resurrect everyone, unlike in most tabletop games.

Which leads to what I was saying : if tpk is the doing of the party, through its decisions, carelessness and/or poor play, they deserve to die.

[–] bouh 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not a good dm that fudge rolls and adjust difficulty. It's a dm you like. And it's a game you like.

[–] bouh 2 points 1 year ago

It's Remote Desktop Protocol. A Microsoft protocol for taking controle of a remote (Windows) computer.

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