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Java keeps throwing memory access violations and making Minecraft crash. You know, Java, if you didn't try to access memory that isn't allotted to you, THIS WOULDN'T FUCKING HAPPEN, YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT.
Quote from: RavynousHunter on March 13, 2016, 12:11:56 pmJava keeps throwing memory access violations and making Minecraft crash. You know, Java, if you didn't try to access memory that isn't allotted to you, THIS WOULDN'T FUCKING HAPPEN, YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT.It's likely a Notch problem. Java is merely a powerful enough language to allow such mistakes.
Quote from: Katsuro on March 13, 2016, 08:26:12 amQuote from: Iosa the Invincible on March 12, 2016, 09:27:46 pmIs there any reason why we still practice daylight savings, or do we just do it for the sake of tradition now?Quite a few countries don't bother with it anymore and haven't for some time, others have never bothered with it, and they all seem to do just fine. As far as I know none of them have blown up or sunk as a direct result, so presumably we all still do it just 'coz it's what we do. Which is the stupidest reason to do anything really.To be fair, mine is a country that still uses the arbitrary, retarded Imperial system for its measurements. Might as well count with our fingers and toes like effing toddlers...
Quote from: Iosa the Invincible on March 12, 2016, 09:27:46 pmIs there any reason why we still practice daylight savings, or do we just do it for the sake of tradition now?Quite a few countries don't bother with it anymore and haven't for some time, others have never bothered with it, and they all seem to do just fine. As far as I know none of them have blown up or sunk as a direct result, so presumably we all still do it just 'coz it's what we do. Which is the stupidest reason to do anything really.
Is there any reason why we still practice daylight savings, or do we just do it for the sake of tradition now?
In other news, my daughter went to the potty and had a major poop. This is not the annoying bit. Her poop having little wriggly worms is the annoying bit. She had been acting a little weird so this may be related to that but I'm going to let doctors find out what the hell is wrong and what can be done to treat it.
To all you people whining about DST: show me your alternative, "more natural" time standard and I'll show you how it too is hopelessly complicated and/or artificial.Daylight saving time isn't a hassle for me.
Quote from: Ironchew on March 13, 2016, 11:10:12 amTo all you people whining about DST: show me your alternative, "more natural" time standard and I'll show you how it too is hopelessly complicated and/or artificial.Daylight saving time isn't a hassle for me.Okay. It's called not changing your time zone every six months. Very natural, very simple. Doesn't require me to suddenly get up at what my body thinks is 5:30 in the morning to go to work at what my body thinks is 6 in the morning.
I actually like daylight savings. Having all that daylight well into the evening is kind of cool, if you ask me.
Quote from: Eiki-mun on March 13, 2016, 05:00:14 pmQuote from: Ironchew on March 13, 2016, 11:10:12 amTo all you people whining about DST: show me your alternative, "more natural" time standard and I'll show you how it too is hopelessly complicated and/or artificial.Daylight saving time isn't a hassle for me.Okay. It's called not changing your time zone every six months. Very natural, very simple. Doesn't require me to suddenly get up at what my body thinks is 5:30 in the morning to go to work at what my body thinks is 6 in the morning.Time zones themselves are not very intuitive; we keep them around because it's what we've been using for the past 150-ish years. If we wanted the "most natural" reckoning we have the technology to convert longitude to apparent solar time (where the sun is highest in the sky at 12:00 p.m.) or sidereal time, but then you're abandoning the 24-hour day; worse, in the case of apparent solar time, each day doesn't have the same length. If you really want a 24-hour day with independently-defined seconds, you still have to correct for Earth's irregular rotation and add leap seconds if you want it to seem like a solar day.I accept the mild DST kludge on top of the multiple kludges we already have in time measurement.
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Quote from: Art Vandelay on March 13, 2016, 05:22:42 pmI actually like daylight savings. Having all that daylight well into the evening is kind of cool, if you ask me.I don't like having to be at work at 6 AM instead of 7.
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Quote from: Eiki-mun on March 13, 2016, 05:50:20 pmQuote from: Art Vandelay on March 13, 2016, 05:22:42 pmI actually like daylight savings. Having all that daylight well into the evening is kind of cool, if you ask me.I don't like having to be at work at 6 AM instead of 7.It only takes a couple of days to adjust at most.