For some offices, tech like Teams/Outlook would certainly help, sure. But the majority of offices aren’t using that. But even still, people would do it regardless. Say you’re going on vacation and want to know when daylight hours are, you’d still be doing the same thing. Timezones may be annoying, but they ultimately make sense. We have a universal time for the planet powering the system, there’s really no reason to change it, in my opinion.

But… We have UTC already, so calculating the difference is a non-issue. If you got rid of timezones, you’d still end up creating it in all but name since the vast majority of business will be occurring during daytime hours around the world. For example, an office in Tokyo sending emails to their NYC office at 0800 UTC (currently 0400 EDT in NYC) wouldn’t end up getting answered for at least 3-4 hours when those employees started logging in. In other words, people would still be doing calculations in their heads to know when business hours are in that region, essentially recreating timezones.

As for your second paragraph, I agree, and I did have it backwards, thanks for the correction. In the summertime where I live, the sun has risen by roughly 0530 and sets around 2100. In the wintertime, the sun is rising around 0700-0730 and setting around 1630-1700 at its shortest daylight hours. Like you said, staying at standard would mean in the summertime we’d have brighter mornings, but curtains and shutters exist for a reason. Personally, I think having it still be bright out at 2030 is kind of annoying.

Yeah, timezones are absolutely helpful from a logistics and coordination standpoint. Daylight savings time, though… That nonsense needs to be eliminated. So what if it will be dark well into morning wake hours in the winter, I’d take it over dealing with the time change twice a year.

From my understanding, companies that use open software in paid products are charging for their services and support and not the software itself. Correct me if I’m wrong, as I may well be. I just know that’s how companies like Elastic and what not get away with primarily using OSS in their products.

Right, I was just pointing out that there are plenty who do believe in climate change, but are still missing/refusing to see the underlying cause and support reform.

Not entirely true in my anecdotal experience. Most of the original deniers I know personally now say that climate change is real, just that it’s not man-made and there’s nothing we can do about it. I remember around a few years ago I even convinced my boss that climate change is in fact real (he couldn’t come up with a valid reason to explain picture and video evidence), but he refuses to accept humans are causing it. It’s still equally frustrating, nonetheless.

Nobody can be excited for anything. Whether or not it’s possible in even the next century or two, I still think it’s awesome that there are dreamers out there trying to make at least a solid theoretical plan on how to accomplish stuff like this. I also think people are discounting the exponential rate of knowledge we accumulate every generation. It might be awhile, but unless society collapses, I wouldn’t be surprised if we have interstellar propulsion like this in the next couple centuries. Hell, I expect to see a thriving commercial space industry in the next 50-some-odd years within our solar system.

Not necessarily, context is pretty key on IMDb. There are plenty of shows and movies that get review bombed, especially if they’re tackling a controversial subject. And nowadays, if anything has even the slightest hint of either being “woke” or alrernatively making fun of “woke” subjects, either side will come in and drop a ton of 1’s, dropping the rating significantly. This happens with videogames all the time, too. The most famous example being Last of Us 2, where the game itself was really quite good (e.g. gameplay, design, pacing, etc), but because it included a trans character and a certain event at the beginning with a key character, the internet went rabid and bombed the shit out of the game at launch.

The academic paper system has been in trouble for decades. But man, the last 10-20 years seems to have reached such an abysmal state that even the general public is hearing about it more and more with news like this, along with the university scandals last year.

Very true, I was going to add that in but felt I’d be going off topic to my original point, haha. But yeah, GOP’s handiwork convincing them of all that. It’s effective, too, because it makes any positive thing that Democrats do automatically bad/a conspiracy.

Yes and no. Republicans haven’t done jack shit for the majority of rural folks anymore than democrats have. The problem is Republicans got to them first via social media and readily available news outlets that are popular in those regions, convincing them that all their problems are being caused strictly by liberal politicians, as well as veiled/not veiled bigoted accusations against other demographics (e.g. immigrants, gays, trans, etc). Ironically, democrats in recent years have tried to win them back by bringing green tech to lots of plains states (e.g. wind farm boom) as well as more jobs (e.g. infrastructure bill), but this is ignored because the GOP are better at psyops than democrats.

You are correct.

What could possibly go wrong?

Ahh, I was out of the loop on that meme, hah. Thanks for explaining!

…I’m confused unless this is just a fake joke image. Is there really a Microsoft page dedicated to .exe like this? A quick Google only returned non-MS results for me and I can’t be bothered to look beyond that.

Also, what is there to even download for this? Just a link to Visual Studio to compile your own executables…?

At my job, it’s almost always the dev team that is called first for bad DB performance (not always, because sometimes it is the server that’s borked).

In college and workplace, all java projects I ever worked with used camelCase. Whether that’s the official stance of Java or not, I don’t recall.

That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to classify Alzheimer’s as type 3 diabetes, but I’m no expert. From my understanding, type 1 and 2 diabetes is just the pancreas being unable to produce and maintain proper insulin levels. Alzheimer’s is thought to be caused by a plaque-like build up on the brain, if I recall correctly. I don’t really see how the 2 are related, but again I’m not a doctor or anything.

This is what happens when academia becomes so hyper focused on a steady cadence of publishing research papers. That’s not even the only issue, having your papers become highly cited is another critical characteristic researchers have to worry about in order to remain competitive. But in order to be often cited, you need to achieve positive results for your hypothesis at all costs, resulting in issues like what this paper discusses: Do Pressures to Publish Increase Scientists’ Bias? An Empirical Support from US States Data.

Academia needs to take a step back and rethink its approach to pressuring researchers to be constantly publishing. I understand that funding is highly competitive and very limited, which is why our governments need to also re-examine our spending priorities. Do we really need another multi-billion dollar Navy ship that’s already obsolete by the time it’s built? Or would our money be better spent funneled into research across all fields and disciplines, advancing our knowledge of the world around us and beyond? I know the world isn’t so black and white and I’m not naive enough to think war will magically go away if we stop spending into it, but surely a comfortable balance can be met. Just $1 billion could probably fund at least several dozen different research projects for a few years. Meanwhile, the Navy just spent $10 billion on just 10 new destroyers in 2023 alone.

I wonder if they did this due to security vulnerabilities and it’s just temporary? If not, it definitely makes it virtually worthless if they plan to keep it permanent.