Trump really doesn’t get it does he?

Like powerful people have been assassinated for less

Ah, yes, nothing quite like retaliating against someone who says you did a bad thing. Sure showed them!

That’s part of the reason. But it now gives me more ideas. Way more.

Jam the IR. IR emitters can be pretty damn easy to hide. Have them embedded in badges for people. Have IR reflecting signs. Flood the protest with IR so even people unaware of it are protected.

Hmmm.

Facial recognition technology is known to be unreliable, and incorrectly match faces. But that’s only a problem if it can detect a face. So your medical facemask is a problem.

But the real problem is the eyes and nose. Ears are easy enough to cover.

New style of sunglasses. Ear to ear 3.5" reflective darkened UV protection polycarbonate. That’s a big ass chunk of face it can’t detect anymore.

I guess in theory you could do that. I’m not exactly sure what that buys anyone though

Me too. A good written guide is always way more effective. There rare today though :/

I wonder why

I meant that we use neutron breeders to turn certain fuel rod waste into fissile plutonium I think.

The difference with the Chinese invention is that you don’t need to transport the waste to a separate breeder.

Wait wait wait wait.

Don’t we already do this? Just right now we don’t do it in the same reactor?

The compressed text only dump is about 25gb.

It only grows to many terabytes if you include all revisions and media files

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Not yet at least!

The only thing I can respond with is:

wut

It’s some new mental illness? Is it just sociopathy?

Is it fried ketamine brain?

You can download Wikipedia.

Anyone can actually.

You get to actually work on your code?

Instead of 6 hours of meetings it’ll just be 8 hours of meetings

By “interface” I meant the data interface between systems. Not a User Interface.

Additionally, it’s been my experience that I rarely get to design the full stack - we inevitably have to handled data exchange and legacy systems. Those legacy systems are a type of “user” in this instance that we have to program for. We can take a 13:30 string, and store it in UTC, but without location or time zone being provided through that (which the message queue that we pull from doesn’t have), it doesn’t do us anything.

The solution for these type of problems usually involve find another source of data and mapping the time that way. This inevitably ends up being far more work for us because of the security, traceability, auditing, etc.

It’s like you didn’t think I had real life scenarios that didn’t fit into this fix.

What happens when the interfaced system provides a date without timezone information? What happens when they provide multiple timezones? What happens when they have more than one site location, and they just send you a 12-hour time and date?

You can always point to the customer - say “hey, we need better data.” But what happens when you have 4000 customers scattered all over the world?

Or another scenario - you are doing optical character recognition, and the document always has a date/time on it. The date and time is usually printed, but sometimes it’s handwritten. Maybe part of the process is to verify that date matches with a date in a legacy system. The date in the legacy system is local to your business, but there is no information on what the datetime on the document is.

I’ve run into so many problems with time in my career that I’m fairly certain it’s created more work than any other problem.

Yes but

It makes programming hard

I advocate for UTC everywhere. So far I’m always dismissed as a joke.

Because time doesn’t really matter in any of those situations.

You still need to know all that information.

I know we’re largely focused on stopping Trump, and we need to.

But how do we save these guys?

No man, sales people are far more important to the bottom line. Profits first, then working product in the future. It’s genius, no way that model could go wrong