Overzeetop

@Overzeetop@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leap seconds being retired next year to avoid wreaking havoc on computer systems — International measurement organization makes move to simplify atomic time tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re dark at 4 pm, then you’re only getting 8 hours of sunlight. Someone is going to be getting up in the dark, getting home from work in the dark, or both if your employer manages to time your particular work day just right.

  What you need is “Personal Daylight Time" or PDT. See, we just need to put an abstraction layer between the icky science of the earth rotating and the sun being overhead at a particular time each day, which can be terribly annoying for those who talked through science class in 3rd grade.

  Everyone who wants something other than “Standard” time just puts the times they’d like the sun to rise and set each day. The app then maps those times to the local sunrise and sunset. When you get your work schedule or dinner reservation, the app converts from the (completely unreadable) standard time based on your location on earth to your personal time which you feel maximizes your personal enjoyment. Likewise, you can send an invite in your time, and the recipient will see it in their time.

  It’s just like having Google Calendar manage times zones for you when you have a distant Zoom call. Simple, no?

  *Note: you will experience faster or slower personal seconds throughout the day depending on your preferred sunrise and sunset days, and it will vary by day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leap seconds being retired next year to avoid wreaking havoc on computer systems — International measurement organization makes move to simplify atomic time tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We should do the negative leap hour now, but do it right after completion of the US law moving everyone to permanent DST. Win - win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Poised to Raise Prices in 2024 as It Continues to Gain Share of TV Viewing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I have so much content backed up that I haven’t watched I’m not sure I’ll get through it all before I die. I say let Netflix perish on the pike of their own enshitification (ads and price increases).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Apologies - I think the Witcher was mostly me. I finally decided I was going to finish it so I could move on to something new.