Madrigal

Betcha Wakefield ends up involved somehow.

I mean, you could employ them siege weapons. If you have enough of them. An an imagination.

Typo. Perhaps they meant a warm onager.

Modern capitalism in a nutshell. Establish a monopoly through any means, then exploit the hell out of that monopoly to become richer and more powerful.

Just like, uh, lightning would.

The Y9999.999999871K bug

Then your only challenge will be converting to and from human-friendly formats and cleansing user input. Easy.

I asked ChatGPT for some potential solutions to the Y10K issue. I particularly enjoyed this suggestion:

Plan for Y10K Early: Build flexible and extensible systems now, with modular design to incorporate future changes seamlessly.

It’s what happens when James uses the good dining forks to unjam the cupboard door again.

Well, that was certainly the peak of human artistic achievement.

Imagine thinking that’ll be the biggest date-related computing problem for a galactic society.

If you really want to make programmers despair, point out:

• massive variations in day, month and year lengths on different worlds.
• some worlds may not have “months” (no moons, or many moons).
• ambiguous definition of “year” for multi-star systems.
• days may be longer than years (hello Venus).
• communication latency across interstellar distances.
• tine dilation.

Google isn’t a search engine any more. It stopped being that some years ago.

Now it’s more accurately described as a shitty content feed that can be weakly filtered using key words.

Gin trap.

“Wellness” is a word they invented so they didn’t have to admit they weren’t health practitioners.

I just adjust feeding time by one hour. Easier for me to switch than my pets.

No, just bored by lazy trolling.

Judith Collin’s is a truly awful person, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I wasn’t implying that stealth sections were enshittification.

Fair point, but I suspect even people with disabilities hate the general enshittification of games.