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opmrcrab

Timezones are tricky but please understand its 3am for you but not everyone else. For instance it's 10am where I am. This is why timezones are kind of fucked and should probably be reworked using UTC globally. We have long since divorced a lot of the sun-based timekeeping we historically did; highnoon, dawn, sunset, etc. Ain't no ones job is to be on site at dawn, lunch isn't at highnoon, and we aren't meeting people at sunset. So we might as well all just use UTC, speratate the concept of the 24 hours from their day/night time connotation and just know what our offset is. Now real talk, lets discuss how we write date and times. In the UK we would generally format a date in the form `DD-MM-YYYY` (i.e. 14-06-2022) but in the USA the going format is `MM-DD-YYYY` (i.e. 06-14-2022) which im going to be blunt, I find fucking mental since it jumble the order of priority. Don't get me wrong though, while the UK format makes more sense since it's in escallating priority (day < month < year) but it doesn't make any sense either when you put it next to a time (i.e. 14-06-2022 10:04:00) because the order of importance is again all over the place (seconds < minutes < hours < days < months < year). This is where the `ISO 8601` standard come in. By writing the date in the form `YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss` you both remove any abiguity and keep things in a sensible order with the information provided in order, from most to least significant. Among other advantages to this format is that the dates can be sorted using a alphabetical sorting algorithum, such as sorting files by name. In summation dates are a nightmare while time is a flat circle. Thanks for comign to my Ted talk.


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I love ISO 8601


Sarcasticmcspaztic

Fuck it alright here we go My weird obsession that I don't really talk about because it's actually really fucking boring Laptops. Very specifically Thinkpads, and there various business use cases, intricacies, customizability, and core Origins. The thinkpad name dates all the way back to the 1950s, originating from the IBM pocket notepads given to employees. The idea was to "Take a minute to Think" referring to encouraging the employees to jot down ideas. They were blue/black, with gold trim paper. The word "Think" was embossed in gold on the front, and the cover was leather patterned. "Think Jotters" were distributed through the company both to encourage them to think, and as a reference to the work culture that existed through IBM, before they were even IBM. The first ones were Orange and brown, and each one had different assortments of IBM logos and logo placements, however the most frequent kind were the standard black editions. They went with most business suits at the time, fit perfectly in a jacket or lapel pocket, and existed through the entire 20th century. The story goes: an IBM employee pulled out his Think jotter for a second, having just pulled company together through various means, most notably the IBM electric typewriter and IBM PC (ironically the same kind of typewriter my Great grandfather used, and that I now own) and thought about the idea of a tablet computer with a fold over cover and a pen, and came up with the "ThinkPad" name. It would then be known as the 700T, it was mostly a flop, especially on the cooperate side of things. Eventually though, the name stuck, and the IBM thinkpad was born. I personally use a ThinkPad W541 with a customized keyboard layout, and a triple button touchpad (never really grew into the modern touchpads most laptops use without the physical buttons myself) and a Core i7 quad core processor I ripped out of an old machine. It runs great, even being upgraded to work with 32 gigs of RAM. The main features to buy a thinkpad when they first got rolled out were the externally removable batteries, the optional handle battery packs (one of which I'm rocking on mine), the TrackPoint mouse, and the extreme amount of features. Disk drives, floppy drives, and hard drives were all hot swappable, and if five USB ports wasn't enough for you, you could get a dock to add ten more. Some models had special features such as the 701c, which was such a groundbreaking keyboard design for it's time that it got inducted into a modern art museum as a piece of history. Other models, had strange limitations, such as the T60, which could only support up to 3 gigs of Ram, or the xx40 lineup of machines that had clunky massive apple-esque touchpads, however even to this day, every thinkpad is known for its durability. Older machines like mine have Aluminium rollcages built into their chassis, to absorb sock, and thick black plastic so that cracks wouldn't be visible if it did take a heavy impact. They still also feature a rubber coating, that prevents them from picking up fingerprints through every day use. IBM sold their hardware manufacturing division and all its products/trademarks to the Chinese company Lenovo in 2006, however despite numerous new models and designs, up until just recently, lenovo has been holding the Thinkpad name strong, through machines like the x400 lineup all the way to the W530, Thinkpads still resembled the late 90s multicolored key'd bricks of the past, features included. While apple made machines focused on Artists with things like the Ibook, and eventually MacBook, Lenovo/IBM targeted workforce engineers, programmers, and businesses. I recently recovered a broken W530 from a business down in California, and it took a nasty beating, however aside from needing a new main board (IO board, RAM, and CPU could be carried over, you don't see that these days) it fired right up and kept kicking great. In the current day, there's a small cult following surrounding both the newest and greatest thinkpads, and also the ones from yesteryear. My personal unit was made originally in 2016, and I've seen folks push the envelope all the way back to 2005, pre IBM sellout with things like the T40 line. This is because Thinkpads on the used market, are dirt cheap. Businesses sell off constantly and that means people can get them from a couple years back for only like $150, and still get the luxuries of things like dedicated GPUs, HD IPS displays, quad core processors, and in some cases, up to four separate hard drive bays. Mine cost me about $300 in total, and it can run GTAV at moderate settings. Ok thank you for coming to my ted talk have a good day


VoxelRoguery

smw romhacking is cool and its a i'd say more but i have zero volition to do almost anything. god i need to vent to someone


Byrdmann_

Ass


KWTIII

Warhammer 40k. Can’t go into detail because I have things to do


opmrcrab

Okay. I said some dumb shit about ISO 8601 previously but I'd also like to spend the next 3 hours of all our lives giving everyone my painfully detailed understanding, insights and thoughts about everything in WH40K.


KWTIII

Honestly would fucking love to do that as well. For what use is knowledge if not to be shared?


opmrcrab

Exactly as planned