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Madrigal
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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.
711·1 year agoMost READMEs are terrible. The biggest issue many of them make is failing to include one or two simple examples.