@amerika@SilverDeth Yeah, I mean, it goes back to Huxley, then Bernays, then the "scientific" plans for organizing society from the late 19th century, the unrepentant arrogance.
@SilverDeth Saw a post-mortem that said that campaign tactics and expert analysis couldn't "overcome organic enthusiasm for a candidate". I laughed out loud, like this is the premise, that people are just empty bottles with legs, bumping into shit until they are filled with "messaging" or "disinformation". It's that callous, sociopathic approach advertising took in the 60s: "everyone's fucking stupid and they'll do what you say if you find the right sequence of words and pictures". They treat the public the way an immature person treats a relationshiop, "What can I say to make her sleep with me?" or "What can I say to make him love me?", like the other person's problem is that they don't do what you want them to do.
What's blitz posting? Did he throw his computer into the ocean?
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:globalistlocated: Every reprehensible globalist piece of shit (hi, Bill Gates), every media puppet with a globalist hand up his ass (hi, Jimmy Kimmel), everyone that took a plane to Epstein Island, all of the venture capitalists, all of the private equity firms, all of these motherfuckers. All of the worst people and all of the people that they'd trot out when they wanted to tell people what to do, and it flopped. I mean, close race, right, but every single stop was pulled out, every dollar, every organization, they played every card they had, and it still flopped.
@frogzone@stefano@jeffcliff I don't see a problem with this, but exactly the same things I said last time still apply: if you think this is wasteful, it will be *more* inefficient to push all of this all the way to the edge. You also still don't seem to distinguish between "all datacenters" and "Amazon hollowing out a mountain". I don't care if Amazon hollows out a mountain to begin with, but I think "I take my computer to a building" is a completely different thing from a closed datacenter.
You do a traceroute between two hosts, and it's 12 hops or whatever and except the first and last two hops, they live in datacenters, because this reduces power and administration costs for the network. You do not have a mesh routing system for the current internet.
@syzygy@frogzone@jeffcliff@stefano That's a tricky one, because there is no type of pornography that you can look at to discourage the CIA. Fortunately, the answer is simple: hack @pernia and route all of his traffic through your network.
> I thought that maybe you could use unix time for everything. Then the problem becomes only a matter of presentation. Hours charged and scheduling will always be correct,
Nope. How do you apply DST to Unix time? So what I did was to keep the original representation around, calculate the times per day because a page never had to display more than thirty days. You can actually lean on Postgres for this but the queries come out extremely long so it was easier to grab a month, calculate when the slots would be. Not the most beautiful solution, but zero bugs and the more edge cases we started testing, the more skeptical I got that there could be a beautiful solution.
> you'll just have to remind the user
Lawyers are no good at this.
> having one hour charged while the local clock would go forward by two
Oh, if we're calculating the difference between two times, absolutely you just use Unix time, but this is different, this is basically drawing a calendar widget and letting a lawyer say when they are willing to block off time to talk to people on the phone, then presenting available slots to their clients to schedule a 15-minute call. Nothing to do with billing on that end, but the clients would pay, whatever, $100-200 per month flat and then they'd have a lawyer to call.
@GhostOfMoshe@JustViolet@UnCL3@cosmonautkatyusha@dcc@diejewdie@lolocaustianity@rrandy@william_travis Yeah, you wanna go anyway because of the propositions, some of them worked out and some of them went weird. Like, people think it's a commie state but there was a proposition to increase minimum wage, that was shut down something like 70/30, rent control was shut down. There was an amendment to abolish prison labor and that didn't pass (it should have, the prison system here is fucked), but they *did* pass a law to turn drug possession into a felony if you have enough offenses. That's stuff people wouldn't expect from California, I think, but you know, weird state.
> Also did you see the recent-ish guadec talk about all the edge cases that happen in developing a calendar. Was pretty funny what with the strange timezones that exist.
I wrote a thing to allow lawyers to sell time; a client provided services to lawyers and they wanted to make it easy to do something like sell a monthly subscription, where they'd do document review and then you could get some number of 15-minute consultations per month. So the lawyers would set up a time, they'd describe their schedule like they would do Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
Here's something: the reason every startup in San Francisco has "a Delaware Limited Liability Corporation" on their "Legal" page is that they are all incorporated in Delaware, because VCs insist on it. Delaware is one of two states that doesn't require a corporation to disclose its owners and VCs won't invest if they can't lie about what they own and how much of it they own. Delaware, consequently, has a large industry of lawyers that just maintain P.O. boxes and act as the registered agent for a thousand shitty LLCs.
So the situation you have to handle is a lawyer drags out "2 p.m. to 5 p.m." on the "Tuesday" and "Thursday" slots in a calendar, they're in one timezone, and a client in another timezone (possibly with different DST rules) wants to schedule a call, and you need to present them with five boxes to click on that have available time slots. This is a nightmare to actually build. global-DST.jpg
@EdBoatConnoisseur@karna@theorytoe@skylar It's good stuff but almost all of it goes back to v7, not just Linux stuff. Maybe worth noting, he keeps typing '{print $1":"$2":"$3":"$4}' and you can just '{OFS=":"; print $1, $2, $3, $4}' and it comes out a little more readable, and most of what he uses head/tail for you can just use sed to do, so his `head -n 20 | tail -n 10` to get lines 11-20 would just be `sed -n 11,20p`. I think it's interesting that people keep getting surprised by this stuff, you know? Like, this was the point of Unix: you could do this kind of thing ad hoc.
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