Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@mastodonmigration @CarlG @andrew @renchap it's a bit easier when the feature is already supported in other fediverse servers though, including modified Mastodon.

@nixCraft well maybe not in the case of PHP which is thankfully getting massively phased out and turning into another COBOL, kept only for projects already written in it.

@nixCraft the inertia problem is both very annoying and very hard to beat. It's not like C, C++, Java, C#, Ruby, Python or especially PHP are popular because they're any good compared to their modern competition, it's just that shifting the entire ecosystem built around them is harder than continuing to bear with them.

@coolboymew

@retr0id oh yeah
God I hate politics so much.

@retr0id is it somehow April Fools in Britain or did their government just completely gave up and turned into the circus everyone saw them as?

@retr0id minute, I missed it completely

@retr0id t-there are? oh god
dates and time, every time

@retr0id @wolf480pl this post inspired me to think up a truly cursed data format – binary ISO-8601.
version A (unholy combination): 59 bits unix timestamp, 1 bit timezone sign, 4 bits timezone hour offset
version B1 (actual 64-bit ISO-8601): 50 bits year, 4 month, 5 day, 1 timezone sign, 4 timezone hour offset
version B2 (ISO-8601 extended 64-bit equivalent): 1 bit year sign, 49 year, 4 month, 5 day, 1 timezone sign, 4 timezone hour offset

Wow, now everything's clear! Can't wait to see the free-est of thinkers share this info unironically.

@retr0id @wolf480pl also if you're keeping statistics about a business' operation, keeping timestamps of sales, resupplies and other events as ISO-8601 strings makes it easier to do a global analysis of these events relative to local time of day.

@retr0id @wolf480pl some collaboration tools do stuff like "x sent y at 1pm (5pm their time)", which is somewhat useful.

@icedquinn @freemo I remember reading that Erlang has a funny way of handling that. It has a stop-the-world GC, except it's per process and Erlang is optimised to handle things with a crapton of small processes with small heaps. So your program cleans up tiny patches of garbage all the time, each process fast enough to be imperceptible.

I always wanted to make something in Erlang but never had a good project idea that fits it. Elixir also sounds interesting but again, wtf do I use it for, I'm not about to start implementing an nth Pleroma.

@PausalZ sufficiently advanced technology yadda yadda, remember that most journalists barely understand multiplication

@Ulrich @governa pretty much, yeah. You can run Linux on more architectures and hardware configurations than you can think of, the catch being that you won't magically get a pretty GUI on a system with a graphics card capable of only text display and the like.

@lanodan so as per usual, everything related to web front-end is pure cancer