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Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by unoti »

ritcgab wrote: post #137
isoprophlex wrote: post #69

This is absolutely fantastic, well done! If you're not done playing with it, you can make it dynamic so it's always accurate, haha! Show the smallest "uncompleted" unit of time available with a fallback for December 31st evenings where tintin simply says nothing... At night: select the week. Also end of the week: select the month. Also end of the month: select the year. Also end of the year: fallback.

At the end of the year: select the decade. Dec 31 2030 will be monumental.

What a century it's been...

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by hansjorg »

This is a "fun" idea, but I'm a bit troubled by the fact that you've chosen to release this right now.

Are you implying something? Not that subtle, truth be told. I'm not American, but hopefully there are someone here who knows the proper X-handle or other official authority to report this to.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by tdeck »

lordmauve wrote: post #88
dnlzro wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that was a design goal! It is probably technically possible to have the time continue to update with just CSS on the client (based on [1]), but the initial time still has to be set server-side. [1] https://css-tricks.com/of-course-we-can-make-a-css-only-cloc...

I'd argue this is the wrong design goal: correctness is more important. I'm in the UK but my work PC's Internet exit node is in New York due to enforced use of corporate proxies, so the time shown to me is 5 hours out. Javascript would report the correct timezone. It is not possible to correctly identify physical location from IP addresses. Not just because of proxies and VPNs and the accuracy of the data: you can go…

I love that this comment is on a novelty meme generator. Imagine if someone was late to their job interview because they were relying on the "What a day, huh?" meme to tell the time.

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Post by mNovak »

tdeck wrote: post #145
lordmauve wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue this is the wrong design goal: correctness is more important. I'm in the UK but my work PC's Internet exit node is in New York due to enforced use of corporate proxies, so the time shown to me is 5 hours out. Javascript would report the correct timezone. It is not possible to correctly identify physical location from IP addresses. Not just because of proxies and VPNs and the accuracy of the data: you can go…

I love that this comment is on a novelty meme generator. Imagine if someone was late to their job interview because they were relying on the "What a day, huh?" meme to tell the time.

Now this is an interesting idea.. a wall clock display showing the closest time-relevant meme..

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by asddubs »

FearNotDaniel wrote: post #79
asddubs wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, for almost everyone this information is contained within the IP anyway, though.

In what sense is the user's local time zone "contained within" the IP? The only way I know to get from an IP address (i.e. those four eight-bit integers separated by period signs) to a client-side timezone is first to use a Geo IP lookup table to obtain a physical location (usually, but not always correct), and then use a timezone database to look up the current political timezone in that location. Sure, some server…

I don't really understand what point you're trying to make. Are you just arguing semantics about the choice of words I used for the fun of it, or do you actually disagree with something I said?

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by fsckboy »

dylan604 wrote: post #102
fsckboy wrote: post #100

> [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh > "In the episode, the character Liz Lemon, portrayed by Tina Fey, complains to character Jack Donaghy, portrayed by Alec Baldwin, about having finished a hard week of work, with Donaghey reminding her that it is still Wednesday" I don't know any context beyond what's in this clip of Liz Lemon saying it to Jack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3uGyBM_1c but "what…

In writing classes, adding all of that unnecessary dialog is considered insulting to the audience. If you are trying to write a joke for the lowest denominator audience member, then you will alienate a larger portion of the audience. If every single joke needed that much additional context, it's not a funny joke. If you're going to require the writers to add that much dialog, you might as well ask them to add a laugh…

I'm not adding context to the joke, I'm pointing out that people are misinterpreting the dialog as it was written. by saying "I don't know what the additional context is", I was saying "perhaps she had just said TGIF!" and that would explain why he said "it's Wednesday"

"What a week, thank god it's over!"

"it's wednesday"

would work for your lowest common denominator.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by waonderer »

latedog wrote: post #46

IDK why, but this reminds me of earlier days of internet, when it was full of random, non-usable but funny content like this. Best things often don't make that much sense.

You are telling me that my cosmic clock is not usable?

https://cosmic-clock.vercel.app

PS. I made it for myself just for fun. Haven't checked issues such as time for other countries. Just checked, time still stays local (Indian) for me even if I use VPN to change my location. I am using p5 and JS for the two times.

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