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When I lived in L.A., the congresscritter there was advocating for "Double Daylight Saving Time" -- CA would be on Mountain Standard Time in the winter and Central Standard Time in the summer. Because we don't do Daylight Saving Time here in Arizona, L.A. would be an hour ahead of Phoenix in the summer. 
Stop the insanity!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Stop the insanity!
Seconded!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Stop the insanity!
Or increase it...
in the EU was said, that every country could then choose sommer or winter time as they wished... 
If avolished, then every country should go to their geografic time slot, period. Everything else would be totally bullsh1t
M.D.V. 
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Nelek wrote: every country should go to their geografic time slot
As is currently the case.
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So what is Norway's geographic time slot? USA's? China's?
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The problem is that tiny little Norway spans three time zones, China spans five. USA runs from -12 to -4, that is nine zones. But Norway has decided that CET shall apply both to the easternmost and westernmost time zones as well. China has said something similar: Beijing time applies to the entire country. Countries split on different time zones are those who will have most trouble.
If USA decides on "whatever they choose" as the common time zone, I guess citizens of eight out of the nine zones will get p***d. So why not make it equal for all and go for UTC.
I think that any change related to time zones, including DST, should conclude with UTC being the thing to go for. Any change will cause disturbances, and UTC is the best end result. Trying to reduce disturbances by going to another solution which really is second rate or third rate is not the way to go. It gives you all the trouble for half the benefits (or less)!
Then it is better to avoid all trouble caused by changing time zones and keep everything the way they are today! If Norway abandons DST, I would much rather that we go to UTC (which would be the "right" one for the westernmost parts), rather than stay at UTC+1 (CET) or UTC+2 (CEST), even if that would require a change all year around, not just half of the year. A change is a change!
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As it wouldn't be the case if they ere allowed to choose it.
i.e.
Germany should actually be +1 (winter time) but many people here prefer +2 (sommer time)
Spain keeps sommer time and then france keeps winter time, Austria winter, Belgium sommer...
That would be possible as per last "proposal" of the EU, last year.
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Again, I'd like to point out the solution chosen by China ("which we call red China"...): Even though the rest of the world insists on having different clocks, causing a lot of coordination problems, we will agree on one single time. All of China is a single time zone.
Sure enough: Sunrise will be at 06:00 in one end of the country and at 10:00 in the other end. So what? Sunrise has never occurred at the same moment all over China, anyway! It is at different times, so why not label it by different times?
For some strange reason, we insist that all over the world, people going to work two hours after sunrise shall call the start of their working hours '08:00', even though that really has 24(+) different interpretations worldwide. We do accept that farmers start their work at 05:00, carpenters at 06:00 and food store clerks at 10:00, all in one single area, so why is it a problem for you to start work at 11:00, two hours after sunrise in your area, when others start working at 02:00, two hours after sunrise in their area?
It is a pity that China, when they made this change, didn't go directly to UTC time, but settled on the old Beijing time, so that there was no change for the central authorities. If they had rather gone for the "Coordinated Universal Time", it would have been much more natural for other countries to follow suit. Everyone thinks one common world time is great as long as we settle on my time! West Coasters would love the world to go for PST, Midwesteners think CST is the natural compromise between east and west, and East Coasters think like the Beijingers: That the capital should decide (... a standard time for the entire world ...). Londoners of course insist that we have one world standard already, our time is the best!
I tend to agree with the Londoners: We should go for UTC all over the world. That would solve a lot of problems. There is no great advantage in having everyone labeling their office opening hours '08:00', when it can mean 24(+) different things. Besides, Londoners label their office opening hours '09:00' 
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ok serious question here. how the heck are they going to handle this as far as the seconds that actually need to be stopped or paused. Because time marches on in computers and if they are off by a second from GMT things get hairy. But if the computers at the end of lets say a few hundred years are off from the earth by a few hundred seconds will it matter?
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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There are at least three clocks involved.
- UTC, which is tied to astronomical phenomena, and requires leap-second adjustment every so often (thirty-something leap seconds have been added to date)
- UT1, astronomical time, which is based on things like the transit of the Sun (actually calculated from a model of the Earth's rotation)
- TAI, which is a count of seconds from a particular epoch (1977-01-01 00:0032.184), and is 37 seconds (as of 2017) behind UTC.
If I understand the proposal correctly, computers are now supposed to be tied to TAI, rather than UTC. Whether they use the current UTC and simply ignore leap seconds (computer time == TAI + 37sec), or use TAI (computer time == TAI) is unspecified in the article.
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We’re sharing several tools and steps we’ve taken at Meta to reduce the time waiting for code reviews Because I hear "code reviews" are all the rage these days
At least at one company[1]
[1] Company may no longer exist by the time you read this
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In my company we actually do them, they saved our bacons more than once (and possibly some customer's bacon too).
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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In .NET 7.0 there is a feature which helps to publish docker container from dotnet CLI *gift-wrapping sold separately
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I wonder if anyone is using Windows Docker containers, I took a look at it but found it had too many constraints.
That was a year ago, maybe things have improved by now?
(deafening silence  )
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Microsoft's TypeScript programming language shines in a new developer skills report from HackerRank, which provides a platform that uses coding challenges to match developers with employers. Data types deemed useful
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Mobile devices that use Bluetooth are vulnerable to a glitch that could allow attackers to track a user's location, a new study has found. While they're hacking the Bluetooth, can they also fix the pairing problems I've been having?
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The year ahead will be a tumultuous one for software developers. Read Forrester's top three predictions for software development in 2023. "If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous."
Kind of ironic that I picked that one up from Malcom Gladwell.
"Citizen development will lead to a headline security breach" <-- kind of an easy guess, IMO.
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Sheet of atoms works similarly to silicon but has some unique properties. Does it also make you look thinner in the photos?
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This short guide helps you brainstorm how you might incorporate these common leaderboard types in your own applications. I'm #15 with a bullet on the bug leaderboard!
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I love my company: we'd create a cartel with a minimum performance and would rotate the leaderboard position weekly. I mean, we already do that in some capacity with performance reviews.
I'm fairly sure in the topmost drawer of each desk there are a sickle and a hammer 
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Microsoft says token theft attacks are on the rise. Here's what you need to do to protect yourself. Use MFA they said. We'll be safe...
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They aren't going to be happy until we have something implanted inside our optic nerve...
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