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  • So then I guess C is salamander. Also lays eggs and lives by a pool, but doesn’t do anything extra, and is a necessary step before most of the other modern languages.

    COBOL is a coelacanth. To everyone’s surprise, they’re still out there. We thought they were an old, very extinct example of a non-terrestrial lobe-finned fish, but they actually hung on in some odd environments. They cause massive indigestion to anyone that has to consume them.

    If Node is a mosquito, Javascript itself is another hymenopteran: the yellow jacket wasp. Just as hated, and with a tendency to injure handlers, but widely successful and defended as filling an actual useful role in nature. They build delicate, arguably pretty nests.
















  • CanadaPlus@futurology.todaytoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlDateTime
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    I… Actually don’t know.

    The real time clock continues to move in real time under reasonable conditions. If it’s in a weird year it’s either because you’ve decided to run a disk you found in a cave, left by the Ancient Ones, or you’re cheating at Animal Crossing.

    I’m a little unclear on how the rest of the clocks typically work together. If your program is drawing from one that gets stopped for a while, I guess yeah, a minute could totally be weeks long, and I’m in the picture as a falsehood believer.


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    Actually, while mathematically heavy, it’s easy to measure in GR, assuming you’ve got a metric solved (If you don’t, you’re fucked. That shit is intractable to the point where you can name every exact solution on one page, and inexact solutions can just be lies) However, you may have to ask additional questions about what sort of time you want, which probably stems from why you need it.


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    1. Ok, but the time on the server clock and time on the client clock would never be different by a matter of decades.
    2. The system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far future.

    Does this come up? I feel like if you’re doing retrocomputing you assume a certain level of responsibility for your software breaking.

    1. Ok, but the duration of one minute on the system clock will be pretty close to the duration of one minute on most other clocks.
    2. Fine, but the duration of one minute on the system clock would never be more than an hour.
    3. You can’t be serious.

    You can’t be, can you? Ditto on that being the user’s problem. My thing also isn’t portable onto Zeus Z-2 or a billiard ball computer you built in your garage.

    There’s some weird shit in the crowdsourced ones. I don’t even know where to start.