Madrigal

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.

And that’s their only “good” product.

The rest is utter garbageware, designed for one purpose: to check boxes on RFPs.

Yes, thanks to moderators who abuse the system, and lazy admins who don’t hold them to account.

Reddit uses fingerprinting techniques to track you across accounts. You need to look into defeating these tactics in order to successfully register (and keep) a new account.

Change browser, block html canvas, change IP address, etc. Also time plays a factor. Leave it a couple of weeks.

Or, recognise that Reddit has become completely overrun with shitposting bots and has little in the way of interesting content to offer these days, and move on.