(I see on the article that there are comments about this, with one trying to excuse it as "The influence is so great that its greatness is very obvious, making it unlikely that anyone would believe it to be lower than the actual value." Nope, I don't buy that at all. It's just plain wrong.)

> It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry

Really? As in, it had *so* little influence that in order to underestimate the influence, I'd have to estimate that it had no influence at all, or negative influence?

I don't see why it's apparently so hard to get "it's difficult to overestimate" right here. (Obviously this isn't the sole example. It's a source of frequent frustration - with "understate/overstate" causing similar difficulties.)

There are multiple articles linked in the post, and explicit mentions of multiple models. Yes, the Register one only refers to a 100 billion parameter model; the Tom's Hardware and South China Morning Post articles specifically talk about a 1 trillion parameter model. So does the post itself:

> The South China Morning Post says the unnamed model has 1 trillion parameters, according to China Telecom, while the TeleChat2t-115B model has over 100 billion parameters.

So, two models: one with 100 billion parameters, and one with 1 trillion parameters - at least allegedly. While we may or may not trust the source, there's no point in claiming that the trillion parameter model isn't mentioned.

Sure - this was just "all transitions" within the first half of 2021.

As far as I can tell, only North America changes clocks today. Calling that "much of the world" isn't a good look, IMO.

Here's a list of transition dates in the first half of 2021, grouped by UTC date, listing the time zone ID - and of course, there are plenty of places that don't observe daylight saving time at all.

2021-01-16
Pacific/Fiji

2021-01-31
Africa/Juba

2021-03-14
America/Adak, America/Anchorage, America/Atka, America/Boise, America/Cambridge_Bay, America/Chicago, America/Denver, America/Detroit, America/Edmonton, America/Ensenada, America/Fort_Wayne, America/Glace_Bay, America/Goose_Bay, America/Grand_Turk, America/Halifax, America/Havana, America/Indiana/Indianapolis, America/Indiana/Knox, America/Indiana/Marengo, America/Indiana/Petersburg, America/Indiana/Tell_City, America/Indiana/Vevay, America/Indiana/Vincennes, America/Indiana/Winamac, America/Indianapolis, America/Inuvik, America/Iqaluit, America/Juneau, America/Kentucky/Louisville, America/Kentucky/Monticello, America/Knox_IN, America/Los_Angeles, America/Louisville, America/Matamoros, America/Menominee, America/Metlakatla, America/Miquelon, America/Moncton, America/Montreal, America/Nassau, America/New_York, America/Nipigon, America/Nome, America/North_Dakota/Beulah, America/North_Dakota/Center, America/North_Dakota/New_Salem, America/Ojinaga, America/Pangnirtung, America/Port-au-Prince, America/Rainy_River, America/Rankin_Inlet, America/Resolute, America/Santa_Isabel, America/Shiprock, America/Sitka, America/St_Johns, America/Thule, America/Thunder_Bay, America/Tijuana, America/Toronto, America/Vancouver, America/Winnipeg, America/Yakutat, America/Yellowknife, Atlantic/Bermuda, CST6CDT, Canada/Atlantic, Canada/Central, Canada/Eastern, Canada/Mountain, Canada/Newfoundland, Canada/Pacific, Cuba, EST5EDT, MST7MDT, Mexico/BajaNorte, Navajo, PST8PDT, US/Alaska, US/Aleutian, US/Central, US/East-Indiana, US/Eastern, US/Indiana-Starke, US/Michigan, US/Mountain, US/Pacific

2021-03-21
Asia/Tehran, Iran

2021-03-25
Asia/Amman, Asia/Damascus

2021-03-26
Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron, Asia/Jerusalem, Asia/Tel_Aviv, Israel

2021-03-27
Asia/Beirut

2021-03-28
Africa/Ceuta, America/Asuncion, America/Godthab, America/Nuuk, America/Scoresbysund, Antarctica/Troll, Arctic/Longyearbyen, Asia/Famagusta, Asia/Nicosia, Atlantic/Azores, Atlantic/Canary, Atlantic/Faeroe, Atlantic/Faroe, Atlantic/Jan_Mayen, Atlantic/Madeira, CET, EET, Eire, Europe/Amsterdam, Europe/Andorra, Europe/Athens, Europe/Belfast, Europe/Belgrade, Europe/Berlin, Europe/Bratislava, Europe/Brussels, Europe/Bucharest, Europe/Budapest, Europe/Busingen, Europe/Chisinau, Europe/Copenhagen, Europe/Dublin, Europe/Gibraltar, Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Helsinki, Europe/Isle_of_Man, Europe/Jersey, Europe/Kiev, Europe/Lisbon, Europe/Ljubljana, Europe/London, Europe/Luxembourg, Europe/Madrid, Europe/Malta, Europe/Mariehamn, Europe/Monaco, Europe/Nicosia, Europe/Oslo, Europe/Paris, Europe/Podgorica, Europe/Prague, Europe/Riga, Europe/Rome, Europe/San_Marino, Europe/Sarajevo, Europe/Skopje, Europe/Sofia, Europe/Stockholm, Europe/Tallinn, Europe/Tirane, Europe/Tiraspol, Europe/Uzhgorod, Europe/Vaduz, Europe/Vatican, Europe/Vienna, Europe/Vilnius, Europe/Warsaw, Europe/Zagreb, Europe/Zaporozhye, Europe/Zurich, GB, GB-Eire, MET, Poland, Portugal, WET

2021-04-03
Antarctica/Macquarie, Antarctica/McMurdo, Antarctica/South_Pole, Australia/ACT, Australia/Adelaide, Australia/Broken_Hill, Australia/Canberra, Australia/Currie, Australia/Hobart, Australia/LHI, Australia/Lord_Howe, Australia/Melbourne, Australia/NSW, Australia/South, Australia/Sydney, Australia/Tasmania, Australia/Victoria, Australia/Yancowinna, NZ, NZ-CHAT, Pacific/Apia, Pacific/Auckland, Pacific/Chatham, Pacific/Norfolk

2021-04-04
America/Bahia_Banderas, America/Chihuahua, America/Mazatlan, America/Merida, America/Mexico_City, America/Monterrey, America/Santiago, Chile/Continental, Chile/EasterIsland, Mexico/BajaSur, Mexico/General, Pacific/Easter

2021-04-11
Africa/Casablanca, Africa/El_Aaiun

2021-05-16
Africa/Casablanca, Africa/El_Aaiun

Nah man, For it to truly die and wither off, they have to make this CFO as their new CEO. I mean, look at Intel. -- stonedead

I have come back from the dead after being officially stone dead for 7 years.

Surely this should have been a plug-in for Kerbal Space Program. Fly your rocket in the game, order the real thing. Not holding my breath for same-day delivery though...

At that point, the ability to use this to replace DRAM becomes much more reasonable. If it were really just 1000x the writes of NAND, it would be far too short-lived to act as normal RAM... but if it's *really* the typical lifetime, things could get very interesting indeed...

Well, DateTimeOffset isn't a class to start with - it's a struct. But it's still not the panacea some people seem to think it is. There are plenty of situations where what you want *isn't* a DateTImeOffset. Its inclusion was definitely an *improvement* on the state of the date/time API in .NET (as was TimeZoneInfo, for sure) - but that doesn't mean it brings it up to a decent state, IMO.

"It either works or it doesn't" - or it works for all but one or two hours of the year, around a time zone transition. Or it works so long as you're in a time zone which doesn't skip 00:00 when it transitions forward by an hour. Or it works so long as you're not in time zone which skipped a whole day once. How sure are you that all your code works in all of those conditions? How *clear* is your code in terms of which values are meant to be local, which are meant to be in UTC, and which are meant to be local in some other time zone?

You say that date manipulation in .NET is really not hard - but I've seen an *awful* lot of subtly-broken code using DateTime, and even correct code isn't always *obviously* correct, mainly because `DateTime` doesn't represent one single concept.

I looked at the .NET DateTime functionality *very* hard before deciding to write Noda TIme - and now, 5 years later, I'm still convinced that it was the right thing to do.

Glad you've liked Noda Time - but if you could drop a line to the mailing list or raise an issue for any "Java-isms" you've found, I'd be grateful. I've tried to make it as idiomatic to .NET as I can, other than where doing so would be harmful.

Google could invest all this money into buying a basketball team or something if they wanted. Instead they choose to do something good which could potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives every year. And I wonder why /. geeks would view this in a negative way.

I saw this today before I heard about this feature when I searched for "side scroller games" https://www.google.com/search?...

M$ SalesRep: Knock Knock.

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M$ SalesRep: It is I, the Microsoft salesman, our surface sales crossed $1M mark. Guess who voluntarily "bought" over $800K worth of those surfaces?

[No answer]

M$ SalesRep: Our employees.