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fiah, 3 months ago

they aren’t, except perhaps as a counterexample of some dubious sort

fiah, 4 months ago

for what, Bluetooth?

which adds latency btw, no bueno

fiah, 4 months ago

you’re right, we should just let the aggressors take everything, that way nobody has to die

fiah, 4 months ago

the chonk is only barely being contained

fiah, 4 months ago

so they just slapped it on the hull and called it a day as they moved on to the M4 Sherman

yep, but you can also easily tell from that photo that the M3 hull formed the basis for the M4 hull. Basically they wanted to build it like the M4 the whole time but couldn’t, so the M3 was made on that platform as a stop gap solution

fiah, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

where was the victory parade on the 4th day of this special operation?

edit: lol I just got banned from the lemmy.ml world news for suggesting that it’s way past a hexbear’s bed time. I guess I should’ve known those mods are tankies

fiah, 4 months ago

lol but starting a war to murder your neighbors and take their land isn’t

fiah, 4 months ago

well good riddance then I guess

fiah, 4 months ago

perhaps it’s your bedtime

fiah, 4 months ago

yeah, you know what they say: first one’s free

fiah, 4 months ago

based working girl whisperer

fiah, 4 months ago

nah, a lot of people are miserable at their jobs all over the world. Just because there might be a decent social system that could tide them over should they lose that job doesn’t mean they’ll just quit

fiah, 4 months ago

Or the no extra pay part.

oh yeah forgot about the title, that shit will NOT fly in europe at least

fiah, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

hah! The 1993 documentary The Nightmare Before Christmas already conclusively proved that Santa can’t even evade regular ol’ flak

fiah, 4 months ago

If only there was a summary of said article right here in the comment section, not even a click away

fiah, 4 months ago

don’t worry, they’ll tell you all about it

fiah, 4 months ago

Personally, I would probably just store them as text, because I’m objectively a terrible programmer.

I don’t know man, I’d far prefer storing a string and have whatever date library I’m using figure it out than have to deal with whatever the database thinks about dates and timestamps

fiah, 4 months ago

why not? assuming you’re saving them all in UTC they should be perfectly sortable and comparable (before, equal, after) as strings, even with varying amounts of precision when you compare substrings. You can’t really do math with them of course, but that’s what I meant about how DBs interpret dates and time: if you use it do to math and then you also use your application’s date library to do math, you’ll likely run into situations where the two come to different answers due to timezone settings, environments, DB drivers and the like. Of course if I could rely on the DB to do the math exactly the way I’d expect it to, then having that ability is awesome, however that requires more knowledge about databases and their environments than I currently have

fiah, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

But, you totally can? When you store all your dates as an ISO 8601 string (UTC, so with Z at the end), you can simply compare the strings themselves with no further complications, if the strings match, the dates match, if one string is less than the other, the date therein is before the other. Their lexical order is equal to their chronological order

I agree that it’s a massive and unnecessary overhead that you should definitely avoid if possible, but for anything where this overhead is negligible it’s a very viable and safe way of storing date and time

edit: I forgot, there’s also a format that’s output by functions like toUTCstring that’s totally different and doesn’t have any logical order, but I honestly forgot about that format because nobody in their right mind would use it

fiah, 4 months ago

We have everything important figured out

well that’s how we know that you haven’t, because if you had actually spent enough time on it to think everything through, you wouldn’t be so confident about what you know and what you don’t know

fiah, 4 months ago

If you are compelled to make a recursive algorithm iterative, consider using an explicit stack.

yep, did that once to solve a specific problem, worked fine and if I recall correctly I could do it without making a total mess of my code

fiah, 4 months ago

we’ll know if the tipping point is reached because it’ll be violent. This isn’t violent

fiah, 4 months ago

Ok I’ll upvote this as long as someone can explain to me what the hell is going on here

fiah, 4 months ago

no he won’t, not if American voters keep apathetically stumbling towards fascism like they have been the last few years. The only way this is going to work is if everybody Taylor Swift’s the fuck out of this election, no more pussy footing around

fiah, 4 months ago

ich, Softwareentwickler, über meine eigene Arbeit: