@mcc I gave a talk ten years ago where the main point was "the AI apocalypse came and went years ago, corporations are AI that runs on humans and we just carry out their algorithms for them"

@eaton Unfortunately, no. But I do have my slides! I just made them public: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19bHmqqnPsK4rBUvUgPdvmNUyh5DQrqrj9L2ehHlN6ho/edit?usp=sharing

@Tijn @mcc unpasteurized milk products are illegal to sell here, yes 🙃

@evan for me it depends on the conversation! Sometimes yes I'm replying 1:1 to a person but the conversation is, in addition to every other function it has, a performance for public consumption and the public record

Other times it's like yeah, get a room!

@evan I think there can be signals like favorites from people reading along that need to be read, too, not just replies. But yes as a person doing this kind of thing you need to ask yourself if it's just an ego trip or it's actually a public service of some kind. (It usually is an ego trip)

How to have a "beach body":

1) You're already 70% water, which is a good start

2) Replace the other 30% with sand

So Seth Abramson is one of the sloppiest public thinkers I have ever encountered, who circa 2016 helped invent the rhetorical style of the buckle-up-for-some-politics Twitter mega-thread. He has advised people who listen to him that they should avoid "Mastodon" (he means the Fediverse I think).

https://post.news/article/2IanIj231d7nc5bxqOxIJpFfGwe

I cannot overstate how much this means we are doing something right over here.

From the official Ruby DateTime docs:

> If you also have to deal with timezones then best of luck - just bear in mind that you'll probably be dealing with local solar times, since it wasn't until the 19th century that the introduction of the railways necessitated the need for Standard Time and eventually timezones.

Friends don't let friends use time zones

There also appear to be.... no unit tests for timezones in Rubylang??? Am I reading this right? They haven't even been touched in ~3 years and most of them are placeholder

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/tree/master/spec/ruby/library/datetime

There are handful that are for timezone offsets, but for example, DateTime.parse is not tested for things like "PDT" or "GMT" in a string

Oh well, another day, another data point in favor of "the fact that computers run at all is a miracle"

Normally I'm not a stickler for 100% test coverage but...... this is a stdlib in Ruby? The programming language?

Wait I stand corrected! There are some tests, they are in Time and not DateTime. But also the ruby docs point out that there are actual differences between the two if you are calculating historical time

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/d92f09a5eea009fa28cd046e9d0eb698e3d94c5c/spec/ruby/library/time/shared/rfc2822.rb

So I guess the most correct thing to say is that there is no test coverage for historical time in Ruby (this matters because time zones change over time so if you are trying to make accurate comparison across years and especially decades this will come into play)

@RyunoKi I'm scared to read this https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/

@roadriverrail I like to point out the 15, 30, and 45 minute offset time zones. Also the fact that any of these rules can change whenever some government body somewhere in the world decides to change them for some reason.

I had to think about a time zone parsing problem for 5 minutes at work and my body was immediately overwhelmed by the need to sleep for an hour.

@Photorat @clacke @pippzipp Wow, I haven't encountered that before. And you follow all of these accounts?

A sincere tip for longtime fediverse people who would like their friends to stick around here longer than a week:

If you're on Mastodon or Hometown, you can click the "bell" icon in the profile of someone you follow. This will make it so that every time they post, it will appear in your notifications like an "@". I am enabling this temporarily for friends so that I remember to interact with them. This is important for making this place feel more lively and helps people stick around!

@graue yes, correct on -m.

What I like about having this in git is that it stores the important information in git rather than in github dot com