I don’t know, this has metastasized in a way that nothing has ever really stuck to Teflon Don before. It’s gotten my one remaining MAGA facebook friend to post his first anti-Trump message that I’ve ever seen. It might actually stick around. I’m not saying that they won’t vote Republican again, but it’s making a much bigger dent than I was expecting.

And, honestly, good. I’m glad they have a line, even if that line is ridiculously far down the road of reasonable human behavior.

I saw the thumbnail and came in here ready to declare my love for the 1998 version (peak Windows design IMO). Once I saw the full meme, it made me actually laugh out loud. Nice.

I unironically love this. Of course it isn’t practical in the least, but I love it.

I’m a software engineer, and we have a product that depends a lot on recording the time that something happened. In the past, one engineer coded the on-device agent using local time, and later on, a different engineer coded the ETL server code using UTC. It’s a huge headache, made even worse by the fact that the infrastructure for that server is in local time for a different time zone.

With a more normalized UTC, I think my life would definitely be a lot easier.

I think it would be equally easy to coordinate across timezones. Nobody is likely to ask about “solar noon,” they’re just going to ask about the time of the things they’re trying to coordinate.

“Let’s meet for lunch when you get in town!”

“Great! When do you guys have lunch?”

“Around 16:00.”

“Oh, ok. That’s around dinner time for me.”

Easy-peasy. The biggest reason it seems weird to us is that we are used to the current way. There’s no reason our brains couldn’t get used to (for instance) waking up at 01:00 and going to bed at 17:00 if that was the normal we had all grown up with.

Though, that said, there was someone on Lemmy a few months ago who absolutely lost their mind at the idea and verbally abused me about the very concept, so you know… your mileage may vary.

Yep. There was one on the Sunday comics page every week when I was a kid, and I learned how to do it then. I never understood the people who can’t do it, or thought it was fake.

Takes a while to get a jury together. The legal system is very slow, even in easy cases; and trying to find an unbiased jury makes it even harder.

If you haven’t, I highly recommend reading “Superman Smashes the Klan.” An all-timer, based on a radio story from 1946, which was honestly its own kind of ballsy.

Gotcha, thanks. I must’ve missed that one.

Yeah, I think the goal is to eventually make it irrespective of seniority, but right now he’s the only one with 15+ years of institutional knowledge on the application, so he’s trying to pass on as much as he can to reduce our bus factor.

Oh neat, our team does this but we call it “WTF Wednesday.” Usually the most senior engineer digs back into our incident log and tries to reproduce it in our dev environment, and we live-solve with him playing the role of the customer.

He also thinks that the number of lines of code produced is a relevant measure of productivity, so him not understanding this isn’t super surprising.

I assume it’s a joke about Elon asking for developers to willingly put their code into a predatory but apparently welcoming input for digestion.

I’m really excited to get time to check it out. Maybe this weekend.

Oh, interesting. I honestly just glazed over that every time, but you’re right that that’s a step in the right direction. What I’d really like is for the instance to go the next step further and merge the conversations visually.

So in my mind, at the top of any individual post you’d see the thumbnail and the link title; and then underneath that, as a special-looking top-level comment, it would show the post title and OP text for each incarnation of the post across various instances and communities. The replies to those individual posts are then all rolled up under their top-level comment.

You could roll Mastodon (and other Fediverse) posts in there, too; they would just appear as their own top-level comment, just like replying to Lemmy posts on Mastodon works currently.

Good to know. I want to use webapps rather than native apps as much as possible anyway, so this is probably good.

On Reddit, I kinda get it. You wouldn’t want to connect the same link across (for instance) /r/antiwork and /r/conservative; the crosstalk there would get horrifyingly bad. But on a federated platform, when you could have multiple /c/antiworks on different instances, it fragments the conversation.

Apparently! Everyone’s talking about topics and feeds, I didn’t know they’d made that advancement. Gonna check it out!

Oh, fascinating! I’m going to have to take a look. Everyone’s talking about topics and feeds, I didn’t know they’d made that advancement.