Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose

Post by mkl » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 11:46 AM UTC

nonrandomstring wrote: post #85

mkl wrote: post #83

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There's still a delay with that, as date takes time to run. You need a program that gets the current time, waits an appropriate amount, prints, and repeats. It'll still be slightly off unless you can measure the printing and flow control accurately. I have a program I use in shell scripting called sleepuntil that does something like this, but it doesn't try to be millisecond-accurate.

The problem that I noticed is if you open two terms on different hosts (say by ssh) and run watch commands then, regardless of resolution, they'll be out of sync. There's no hard tick event common to both kernels. And as someone already said, you introduce sampling effects. So I figured you need a time "diff", a single command that updates from both timeservers and then presents the offset in a single operation. So (…

  ntpq -pn

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  void main() {
      struct timeval tv;
      struct timespec ts;
      ts.tv_sec = 0;
      while(1) {
          gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
          ts.tv_nsec = 1000000000 - 1000*tv.tv_usec; //number of nanoseconds left in the current second
          nanosleep(&ts, &ts);
          gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
          printf("%lu.%06lu\n", (unsigned long) tv.tv_sec, (unsigned long) tv.tv_usec);
      }
  }

Post by onemoresoop » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 12:13 PM UTC

forgetfreeman wrote: post #86

antonvs wrote: post #65

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A functioning government is not possible as long as money is speech, corporations are people, etc. That directly translates to government by the wealthiest people.

I've noticed a distinct trend in the last month where even the most casual mention of the oligarchy attracts a bunch of downvotes. I'm trying to decide if this is an indication that some cohort of users here are deeply and passionately delusional about the political state of play, or merely uncomfortable about having it pointed out.

Post by Diggsey » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC

thenaturalist wrote: post #51

Diggsey wrote: post #43

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The "right to not be insulted" is literally censorship.

If you look up the definition of censorship, you'll find that it is not. Censorship is suppression. Insulting someone or discriminating against them is not supression, it's unlawful. If that's not your cup of tea, I'd challenge you to forego any and all (!) ameneties of modern civilized society to enjoy your anarcho-freedom. Don't pretend to be a tough one by sitting in a comfy chair and picking the raisins out of th…

Post by techfeathers » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 1:28 PM UTC

purplethinking wrote: post #97

jiriknesl wrote: post #77

The guy isn't sending the company 50 years back. I come from a post-communist country which had a lot of censorship. It was happening 50 years ago as well (it was happening since the end of 40s to the end of 80s). Call me sensitive. ;) The guy is removing the company from 50 years back.

No no, the guy is definitely sending the company back 50 years, to a time when free speech actually meant something, and when a single party didn't control 90% of all media outlets, social media, institutions and controlling policy at most Fortune 500 companies.

Post by hmmm-i-wonder » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

playa06 wrote: post #84

gortok wrote: post #50

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With this comment you seem to be putting the Overton window farther right than I’ve seen it in recent memory —- outside of very rural areas.

> farther right than I’ve seen it in recent memory —- outside of very rural areas. https://www.statista.com/statistics/985183/size-urban-rural-... >>In 2023, there were approximately 55.94 million people living in rural areas in the United States, while about 278.98 million people were living in urban areas If Trump won, it couldn't have been solely because of people in the boonies, who represent a much smaller propo…