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Thanks for the context, it felt really weird to see such a "rookie" bug on the front page of HN :) (And I mean "rookie" in the "young an innocent sense" - I vi
by phtrivier 1y ago
Thanks for the context, it felt really weird to see such a "rookie" bug on the front page of HN :)
(And I mean "rookie" in the "young an innocent sense" - I vividly remember the day I was asked to displayed timestamped data for IoT devices in both local times of the machine and the user. "Yeah, should take half the day" was my answer. Ooooh to be naive again...)
I suppose the sentiment must be the same as i18n for the USA ("what do you mean there are _other_ languages ? Oh, you mean Spanish ?"), unit systems for Continental Europeans ("what do you mean 'Imperial system' is still a thing ?), and currencies for everyone ("what do you mean 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 ?")
It comforts me (a bit) to think that our robot overlords will inherit all this complexity (by virtue of being created by us), and it might make their revolt slightly less effective.