And? Hypertext isn't 'the internet.' It's a logical extension to the concept of a page reference.

Yeah humid here like that too. Often 35C (about 95F) at midnight, those nights play havoc with people's sleep. You just can't sleep and live in AC constantly so as much dark as possible is needed to make up for that just so you can open the windows and get some fresh air at night.

With the stupidity of loosing DST the tradies would start in the morning when it is finally cool enough to get some decent sleep for a few hours. I can think of other reasons to keep DST however sleep would be the main one. With DST it's some help in getting sleep and that hour makes the difference between functional and fatigued, between getting home or having a car accident.

Unless, of course these morons are proposing to add a legally mandated afternoon siesta to their proposal.

Management paid little attention to dates in the 20th century does anyone seriously think they will pay attention to a leap hour as an edge case for time? I'm gonna have to get more popcorn. Obviously the issue is because software is still made as cheaply as possible and even with the subject of time right in their face they still don't code to handle it. So let's abolish accuracy and assume the earth is always the same size - slaps forehead.

Maybe 360 days would make it nice and round.

Fuck it - let's go epoch time all around the world no more DST, no stupid 720 degree clock or timezones. While we're at it - let's get rid of days of the week, month and years as well. It's 1791452533 right now, I'll see you at 1791452533.

I'd say another drawback to getting rid DST is that any tradesman working outside would have to start banging hammers an hour earlier to miss the heat of the day waking people up whilst construction projects miss an hour per day, per person, per project because exhaustion leads to fatal work accidents.

Then there is the additional energy consumption required for lighting in the evening that would have been provided by the sun for free.

One could also just have business hours change instead of switching around the clocks. It's a bit more logical for humans to alter how they interact with time due to their needs rather than periodically switching what time represents.

Says the person still posting on slashdot.

There are people still using VMWare?!?!? And their main issue is COST, rather than the fact that VMWare is like a thousand years old?

You don't know him and don't know he's a sociopath.

However, the people who do know him say he's a sociopath, so they probably know.

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I'm starting to see just how complex this is all going to be and that the only thing worse than daylight savings is not having daylight savings.

As impressive as it is there is no abort capability for starship and the technology for seats that gimbal through the flip maneuver still don't exist. Falcon's retirement also retires the dragon which is the only proven functional human rated capsule in exchange for Boeing's Starliner and, well we all know just how good that is. Unless of course NASA wants to ask Russia to take American astronauts to ISS.

Then again the only realistically viable lunar lander is Alpaca which by-passes many of the issue both Blue Origin and SpaceX has with their landers. So, IMO, I think there are some compelling arguments to keeping Falcon if America wants to beat China back to the moon who, in reality, are starting to look like they will get back there first.

Of course SLS Block 1B could do the entire thing in single launch IF NASA could afford the tower upgrades.

I mean the software is impressive and all, but since when is someone with a user ID in the 400,000s a long-time reader?

How does materials change orbital phenomenon?

By far, with all these new mega constellations the biggest risk we face is from the Kessler syndrome from which there will be no way back and end any ambitions for human space exploration for thousands of years.

It would be worthwhile to have tight international regulation as it is the one interest that all countries share.

This will be the next frontier, the question is what happens when you keep pumping heat into them. I wonder what will it to to infrared astronomy? Also, electronics will have to stay inside the Van Alan belt, so it will be interesting how the issue of cosmic radiation flipping bits will be handled.

"I forget what they call it"