Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@matrix
Maybe. But women can't compete with our anime girls either.

@emilis

@moth @kino
You're already in the parts of computer code that converts the real computer "date" into human speak. Underneath it all, it's how many seconds have passed since 1970, stored in a 64bit binary number.

@moth @kino
No.... these standards are made to represent what is being displayed to the user. Computers talk between one another by sending a single binary number that represents the amount of seconds since 1970. Any calculations done by a program on dates is done on that number. Only at the end of it all, does a standard come into play to convert that binary number into something legible to you and me.

@moth @kino
I don't think formats like dd/mm/yyyy or whatever are speech between machines at all. Speech between machines, when it comes to date, is just counting the seconds since who knows what year.

The date formats we use are just a form of shorthand. An abbreviation. They are no different than lol or lmao. A way to condense quite a bit of information.

@xue @sjw @matrix @bartholin @Alex
We used to do that in school. Don't really remember when I stopped. I've only seen dd/mm/yyyy in the real world where I live.

@xue @sjw @matrix @bartholin
The delay in perceiving your required info is negligible.

@Alex @sjw @bartholin @matrix @xue
I think we should convert the date in number of seconds since an arbitrary date, and then convert that number in binary.

@xue @sjw @matrix @bartholin
Because dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd doesn't carry the exact same information?

Just pick a logical order of increasing or decreasing granularity of your units. That's all I'd want from this clusterfuck. I feel like plucking my hair out when I see americans do dates like: big-thing/smallest-thing/biggest-thing.
Makes as much sense to me, as if I measured a road as: 15 feet, 5 inches and 20 miles.

@moth @kino
Complete nonsense. The information displayed should follow an order. Either from smallest unit to largest, or the other way around. You have info denoting the exact day (small unit), then the entire month (larger unit), then again info denoting the day (small unit), then the year (largest unit).

Tuesday, 15th of November, 2022 makes a lot more sense.

@sjw @matrix
I could be wrong of course, but for small mistakes like that, or doing DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY my default assumption is always that it's not someone fluent in English.

@sjw @xue @matrix @bartholin
Sure, but how is that useful exactly? Cause you're still reading the number just the same regardless. I'm not aware of a situation where you read a number denoting a sum of money any different than any other number.
Also, if $8 is better, why don't we see the same with measurements of length, weight etc?

The objectively correct date - time format should be:
YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss

@bartholin @sjw @xue @matrix
$8 looks nicer, cleaner, but yeah, it makes less sense than 8$. Just like how MM/DD/YYYY is kinda stupid.

@sjw @matrix
The meme might be in English, but it doesn't mean it was made by a native English speaker. It could have been made by someone that is not fluent enough to understand how currency symbols work in English. So they'll just default to the style native to their own country.

@sjw @matrix
That's how it's done in some European nations.

@theblessing
I kinda felt similarly, but I didn't want to say it, cause I never though of @thor as toxic.

@thor
>i never made the move on a girl. i'm too polite.
>go ahead, girl. work up the courage
>the sexes are equal
...
You do realize the average women doesn't like that, don't you? And the few that actually do, are probably not gonna be good for you.

You ever typed out a long, carefully thought out response to a post, only to eventually not use it, because you don't have enough respect for the person you were responding to, and you knew full well there was a possibility they would react in bad faith, and you're just so completely tired of dealing with the toxic community they are a part of?

@thor
You call them idiots, I call them manipulating bastards.
They're not stupid. They know exactly what they're doing.