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Comment good thing I guess (Score 2) 91

When I worked for a broadcasting software company that had customers worldwide, everything was using TC (timecode), PTP, and of course we needed to support leap year, different timezone etc when a broadcast was scheduled between different zone around the world (it can be complicated) ; and we needed to support leap second by contract! Easiest thing was to add a 1s black frame after the schedule after reaching midnight. Supporting negative leap second would have been complicated... Good thing we drop it I think.

Comment Re:I wonder how long till the CIA (Score 1) 122

I went to look at the parent comment, and I'll admit that I was disappointed that your reference was to the Vandals, and not Finnegan's Wake (as "Oystrygods and fishy-gods" was about as far as I made it before I acknowledged to myself that I wasn't *that* committed to being well-read).

Comment Re:Yet another... (Score 1) 192

I don't have any objection to people getting educated on how to be literate with the technology available for doing their jobs and interacting with their world. I also agree - just because I think it's stupid doesn't mean it doesn't have value.

What I have a problem with is not with the information itself, it's with the increasing trend towards abuse. With traditional marketing, it's more obvious that it's sponsored, and there are more obvious standards as far as how far you can go with stretching the truth for your marketing. With "influencer" culture, we blur all the regular communication lines, and end up with far more advertisements dressed up as if they're documentary news.

My problem isn't with "Product X is healthier than Product Y", it's with "Did you know that people who buy Product Y are putting literal poisons in their bodies!!?!". I'm in favor of the advertising from The Invention of Lying (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stbwqSOJwL4).

There were a number of things I could say on the topic, but they all unfortunately end up reinforcing the unstated premise - I'm older and I think new things are stupid.

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