(NOTE: I'm assuming you meant, "The actual timer/clock hardware typically does not (implement any sort of updates for its DST stuff)" - you were replying to two sentences with opposing takes.)

Then the device to which you refer is already DST dysfunctional. Additional modifications to DST won't make it any less functional.

Your statement that, "Generations of electronics needs to be replaced first," is simply wrong. Such devices fall into three categories:
1. Supports updates to the schedule and offsets. These will keep working.
2. Lacks support for such updates, but has manual override options such that you can keep it working. These will keep working as well as they do today.
3. Lacks support for such updates and have no reasonable ability to correct it. These are already fucked and will continue to be fucked.

Nothing needs to be replaced BEFORE additional changes are made - whether that's DST all year, standard time all year, new DST change dates, new DST change amounts (1/2hr instead of 60min), or going full UTC.

The Olson DB will need updates, as it often does, and everything else will work itself out.

IMNSHO, something like this could be useful for IoT devices and similar systems. One often doesn't want a full OS on them, or SSH access, or the overhead of a package management system on the device, etc.. But will this bring any significant improvements over their existing update methods? From what I've seen of those random devices, there's certainly room for improvement.

The other area I could see this being useful is in VM[^1] deployment, especially with orchestrated systems that spin up and down VM's left and right. Again, that's not to imply there aren't existing ways to manage this, but they'll probably be able to sell some big customers on it (ex. what about Microsoft themselves licensing it for use in Azure?).

For normal users, and for those who actually want to own their device and what's on it, other solutions are better suited to those needs.

[^1] "VM" here could be expanded to cover a lot of similar technologies.

100%. And furthermore, we already demonstrated that the US is capable of making significant changes to the DST rules without people really giving a shit - Energy Policy Act of 2005 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

As backasswards as it would be, maybe they could just keep shifting the start and ends dates closer and closer together until the time change goes away entirely?

Why TF are you recording timestamps in localtime?

Record timestamps in UTC datetimes, or as a Unix Timestamp, or some of the other similar systems. And fire whomever it was that used localtime for database timestamps!

So long as you don't get OCD with it and fix it every day, would it not fix itself? Laziness FTW.

Bullshit. For any such device, it already needs to be replaced (and/or its DST functionality is broken and must be worked around manually already). The DST schedules have changed several times just in the US, and they change constantly on a global scale.

If said device implemented any sort of updates for its DST stuff, then it would also accept an update for any new stuff. If it didn't, then it's already shit out of luck.

Is that not what the GP said? Look at the context of, "If and only if you can touch type." IE: with fingers on home row, HJKL cursor navigation causes the keys to placed where QWERTY would have them on JXCO, which is pretty awful to use in practice. IMO, and as a long time vim user, I'd want to remap all the vim commands such that most, if not all, remained in the same position they were in while using a QWERTY layout.

FYI, it turns out that is very easy to do in vim! The following will allow one to type in insert mode under DVORAK while keeping all normal mode commands under QWERTY:

" Restores QWERTY positions exclusively in Normal/Visual modes
set langmap='q,q',wj,ek,rx,ty,yu,ui,io,op,as,sd,df,fg,gh,hj,jk,kl,l_,,x.,.p,p_,,fg,gc,cr,rl,la,ao,oe,eu,ui,id,dt,tn,ns,sh,h_,,;z,qx,jc,kv,xb,bn,mm,m_

TIMTOWTDI, there's also a Dvorak plugin for vim. Just run:

:packadd dvorak

... then toggle DVORAK mappings with ",d", turn them off with ",q".

Percentage of population of area:
* Mormons in Utah: 42%
* Catholic in USA: 20%
* Jewish in NYC: 12%
* Amish in PA: 0.74%

YMMV on the how well they do it, but both the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 2&3 support prescription optical inserts, and XReal also supports prescription lenses (https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-one-pro-prescription-lens), and that includes this new XReal Aura (https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-aura ... it's listed on there under "Personalized Prescription Lenses").

Don't be daft. People used iPod's as a phone with WiFi calling (ex. Google Voice). It's certainly possible.

Not only can it be used as a phone via WiFi, but they _DO_ offer a model with WiFi + Cellular. And yes, they gimp it - can't use it directly to make calls.

One is a registered company with known people working there, and the other is entirely anonymous. If forced to choose to which of them I would hand the same amount of money, I'd pick the one I could later identify if things go south, wouldn't you?

Now, $8k versus $150k? I don't know. And what about other options? But if everything was otherwise equal and you had to pick between one of those two options, why would you pick the person who already wronged you?

And I have no problem with any of this. I didn't disparage hotels or those who choose them over an AirBnB. While I generally prefer travel that embeds me in local culture, now and then I love a good all inclusive resort. A variety of different options is great for everyone, but the GP and many others on this thread are so close minded they can't imagine someone wanting anything other than the same cookie cutter experience they want every damned time.

To make matters worse, it seems the biggest complaint about AirBnB seems to be that management groups and hotel groups have bought into it and made things shit. Those are the same groups that make a lot of hotel stays shit too. Abandoning all BnBs is the opposite of the right answer to that; Support small businesses and BnBs!

Have you actually stayed at many AirBnB's? Doesn't sound like it. IMO, it's like a real vacation then. An actual house in the area you want to be in. You can pick amenities that matter to you - maybe a pool, or option to bring your dog, or nearby access to hiking trails, or lake access, etc.. TBH, the shittiest AirBnB I've stayed at was still as good or better than the Hotel options in the area. The one area where Hotels have a huge advantage is consistency - if you want to blindly pick a place to crash for the night, you can assume a $BRAND_NAME_HERE will be on par with your past experiences in other places.

Or maybe it's that they're capitalizing on said ill ease with AI, and leveraging it to instill a distrust of outsider AI's (Chinese, open source, etc..), enough so that they may manage to get the import thereof blocked, or at least pull a "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" sort of management mentality.

Meanwhile, they didn't outline any features that existing worms and such are already capable of.

I may have misunderstood your original comment:

... misunderstood as the LLM directly recognizing some situation that is bad, as opposed to the LLM producing a result that can easily be tested for validity (like applying a test suite to a codebase and ensuring it still passes). If the latter, I mostly agree - with the same caveat you mentioned - your original "only" was a bit too restrictive, but not by much.