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Usually they double as a method to send vendor-specific push notifications (i.e. Google, Microsoft) and only have the other TOTP functionality tacked on. Is there a FOSS solution?
Usually they double as a method to send vendor-specific push notifications (i.e. Google, Microsoft) and only have the other TOTP functionality tacked on. Is there a FOSS solution?
He is talking about how to handle a leap second versus a leap minute in computer systems, by software.
The easiest way to handle a leap second is to not institute a leap second because it is not needed and not useful.
He is not talking about the earth rotation.
The only reason to talk about a leap second or a leap minute is to synchronize the accurate clocks with the earth's rotation. So, yes, if you're talking about leap seconds, you are talking about the Earth's rotation.
Nobody cares that clocks are synchronized to the Earth's rotation to this absurd degree of accuracy except possibly astronomers, and anybody pointing a telescope to arcsecond accuracy is using enough computing power to point the telescope accurately already.
Nope. Horrible idea for multiple reasons: a) We have a time scale that isn't corrected. If you need that, use that.
It's not the time scale that isn't corrected. It's that the Earth's surface is ahead of where it would have been if the rotation was perfectly constant speed.
Unless your application cares what direction the Earth's surface is pointed to within an error of arc seconds, you don't care. If you do care to that accuracy, you're running enough computation that adding the offset is not a problem.
Different time standards are used for different reasons. b) 40 seconds is a huge amount of time when comparing certain events. E.g. it's the difference between seeing a calculated astronomical occlusion, and missing it by 39 seconds.
The timing would be right; the position on the Earth's surface would be off by tens of kilometers. If you're doing something as complex as an asteroid occultation, which requires n-body orbital calculations, you can trivially include the actual Earth's rotation instead of assuming constant speed.
> Come up with something more clever.
That's your job, you are the one who is allegedly smarter than me.
That scam is from Rudy G's basement, not a real Nigerian.
What I wonder although is how the heck/what could cause it to speed up?
The core rotates slightly differently from the surface. Momentum transfer from the core to the mantle can make tiny changes in the surface rotation without changing the net angular momentum of the planet.
(there's also momentum exchange between the planet and the atmosphere as circulation patterns change, but that's pretty small.)
Solar panels don't give a damn whether the clock is synchronized to the Earth's rotation to within a minute.
There's no reason whatsoever to have a leap second. All modern technology works on internal clocks. Nobody checks the Earth's rotation with respect to the sun to tell the time.
Isn't that what Slashdot is for? Manbabies trying to impress each other?
I have an ARM-based Samsung Book Go laptop and I have to say it's a piece of crap. Terrible screen and slow as shit. I'd install Linux on it but there's no support for most of its drivers. At least it could run ARM-native Firefox. Running non-ARM-native programs is just painful.
Just because smaller shops haven't been caught yet, doesn't make them moral.
Sign me up for the lobotomy, then! Fun fun fun!
Really? It's actually good? Didn't expect that. I thought they were just trying to rip off Star Wars: The Clone Wars so I immediately dismissed it.
CDs are the best. People will rediscover this as soon as they go away and their crappy modern vinyl collection starts to degrade.
to the term "dark pattern". Just call them "sneaky patterns".
Two things annoy me about Amazon: first, it defaults to the more expensive shipping option so one has to remember to inspect all the shipping options. Second, it tricked me into signing up for Amazon Prime via convoluted buttons. True, if you cancel it in time you don't get billed extra, but if somebody didn't notice, they could get zapped.
Stealing pictures is bad, mmkay...
Where there's a will, there's a relative.