ApostleO@startrek.website
on 28 Dec 2023 16:13
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It should have an option to add an event to your calendar.
Lath@kbin.social
on 28 Dec 2023 16:40
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Can we speed them up? I'm not sure we're going to last that long.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
on 28 Dec 2023 16:42
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How did you get a screenshot 2 days in the future? When I click on it mine is 249 days, 20hours, 16minutes…
laverabe@lemmy.world
on 28 Dec 2023 17:40
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temporal displacement obviously
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world
on 28 Dec 2023 20:35
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There is a temporal cold war currently so it checks out
danielquinn@lemmy.ca
on 28 Dec 2023 17:44
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It appears to be using JavaScript to count down, and JavaScript uses a browser’s local time by default rather than something sensible like UTC. Someone else has noticed it in the Mastodon thread: aus.social/…/111656784005786289
aubertlone@lemmy.world
on 28 Dec 2023 18:27
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I mean wouldn’t any sensible developer just use one of the many npm packages that do count down from UTC?
Which would also be using JavaScript?
Sorry I don’t mean to quibble it’s just that imo JavaScript has nothing to do with this faulty countdown, it has to do with the developer overlooking edge cases.
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol
on 28 Dec 2023 21:30
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aubertlone@lemmy.world
on 29 Dec 2023 05:38
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I have seen this episode.
That is EXACTLY why I don’t understand why someone wouldn’t just use an NPM package that already has all that stuff sorted out. Could you imagine trying to code to deal with different time zones?
Forget about it.
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml
on 30 Dec 2023 00:36
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So because they messed up, they’re not a sensible developer? Jeez…I sure wouldn’t like to work with you.
Mistakes are part of life, especially when your job is solving problems, and thus you can be both a sensible developer and still make mistakes.
If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.
aubertlone@lemmy.world
on 07 Jan 2024 17:29
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You make it sound like I verbally abuse people for bad code.
It’s famously difficult to implement your own time-based systems that also deal with timezones.
Ya know, I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t want to work with someone like you either, who seems to jump to conclusions based on an off-hand comment I made that wasn’t meant to be particularly cynical.
My main point of the previous comment is that it has nothing to do with JAVASCRIPT, just the developer on the other end. Drawn whatever conclusions you want from that assertion
Wouldn’t those also reflect an error in the local system clock if it was not set correctly?
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website
on 29 Dec 2023 01:11
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Maybe they coded it from the day Cisco and Bashir arrived in 2024, not the actual date I’d the riots.
directive0@lemmy.world
on 28 Dec 2023 17:36
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That reminds me I need to buy some land in bozeman montana.
Icalasari@kbin.social
on 28 Dec 2023 17:58
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249d 19h for me
I don't think they know how to code a timer
Fades@lemmy.world
on 29 Dec 2023 02:04
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probably just didn’t take into account time zones so it’s different based on the offset (likely to UTC)
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
on 29 Dec 2023 03:26
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There was a timezone issue with their code. Mastodon, in the mastodon way, found a way to contact the site owner and they got everything fixed. People can be great, when given the chance.
Icalasari@kbin.social
on 29 Dec 2023 04:52
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I am so used to the internet being cynical that I forgot people can be nice
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
on 29 Dec 2023 18:01
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Same here. I reread the message chain several times before it sunk in that they were being kind and not dickish haha
AlexisFR@jlai.lu
on 28 Dec 2023 18:37
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And what’s a Bell Riots?
Maestro@kbin.social
on 28 Dec 2023 19:28
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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
on 28 Dec 2023 23:19
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As long as it’s not a Greene countdown.
Fades@lemmy.world
on 29 Dec 2023 02:03
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Fingers crossed, I want my science-based utopia
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 29 Dec 2023 04:01
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can star trek make an episode about squaresoft putting out an hd remake of final fantasy ix in 2025 next then?
Daxtron2@startrek.website
on 29 Dec 2023 04:08
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It’s science fiction not fantasy
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip
on 29 Dec 2023 04:22
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I think its silly when star trek tries to predict the upcoming decades. I liked the original series when they went back to the great depression
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com
on 29 Dec 2023 04:22
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What’s alarming is how ridiculously close this is to reality right now…
porthos@startrek.website
on 29 Dec 2023 20:40
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Something I find funny is that a lot of people who don’t know Star Trek that well and have only seen a couple of episodes assume Star Trek is the super optimistic view of humanity that is unrealistically positive about humanities future when if you actually look at the timeline in the 2000s and 2100s Star Trek is actually seriously apocalyptic. Humanity doesn’t turn to a good future out of some inevitable human kindness, it tries violence over and over again until some crazy guy makes a warp engine out of the rubble of destroyed civilization and the Vulcans show up.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
on 29 Dec 2023 21:39
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It should have an option to add an event to your calendar.
Can we speed them up? I'm not sure we're going to last that long.
How did you get a screenshot 2 days in the future? When I click on it mine is 249 days, 20hours, 16minutes…
temporal displacement obviously
There is a temporal cold war currently so it checks out
It appears to be using JavaScript to count down, and JavaScript uses a browser’s local time by default rather than something sensible like UTC. Someone else has noticed it in the Mastodon thread: aus.social/…/111656784005786289
I mean wouldn’t any sensible developer just use one of the many npm packages that do count down from UTC?
Which would also be using JavaScript?
Sorry I don’t mean to quibble it’s just that imo JavaScript has nothing to do with this faulty countdown, it has to do with the developer overlooking edge cases.
I take every opportunity to share my favorite Computerphile episode: The Problem with Time & Timezones.
I have seen this episode.
That is EXACTLY why I don’t understand why someone wouldn’t just use an NPM package that already has all that stuff sorted out. Could you imagine trying to code to deal with different time zones?
Forget about it.
So because they messed up, they’re not a sensible developer? Jeez…I sure wouldn’t like to work with you.
Mistakes are part of life, especially when your job is solving problems, and thus you can be both a sensible developer and still make mistakes.
If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.
…
You make it sound like I verbally abuse people for bad code.
It’s famously difficult to implement your own time-based systems that also deal with timezones.
Ya know, I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t want to work with someone like you either, who seems to jump to conclusions based on an off-hand comment I made that wasn’t meant to be particularly cynical.
My main point of the previous comment is that it has nothing to do with JAVASCRIPT, just the developer on the other end. Drawn whatever conclusions you want from that assertion
Wouldn’t those also reflect an error in the local system clock if it was not set correctly?
Maybe they coded it from the day Cisco and Bashir arrived in 2024, not the actual date I’d the riots.
That reminds me I need to buy some land in bozeman montana.
249d 19h for me
I don't think they know how to code a timer
probably just didn’t take into account time zones so it’s different based on the offset (likely to UTC)
There was a timezone issue with their code. Mastodon, in the mastodon way, found a way to contact the site owner and they got everything fixed. People can be great, when given the chance.
I am so used to the internet being cynical that I forgot people can be nice
Same here. I reread the message chain several times before it sunk in that they were being kind and not dickish haha
And what’s a Bell Riots?
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots
Thanks!
I dunno but damn that Bell guy looks exactly like Sisko its weird
memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots
As long as it’s not a Greene countdown.
Fingers crossed, I want my science-based utopia
can star trek make an episode about squaresoft putting out an hd remake of final fantasy ix in 2025 next then?
It’s science fiction not fantasy
I think its silly when star trek tries to predict the upcoming decades. I liked the original series when they went back to the great depression
What’s alarming is how ridiculously close this is to reality right now…
Something I find funny is that a lot of people who don’t know Star Trek that well and have only seen a couple of episodes assume Star Trek is the super optimistic view of humanity that is unrealistically positive about humanities future when if you actually look at the timeline in the 2000s and 2100s Star Trek is actually seriously apocalyptic. Humanity doesn’t turn to a good future out of some inevitable human kindness, it tries violence over and over again until some crazy guy makes a warp engine out of the rubble of destroyed civilization and the Vulcans show up.
Be the change you want to see.