PeriodicallyPedantic

@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve definitely had some rural evenings that would have been better with the ability to shoot some cans.

  I don’t think that’s the kind of “better” you were talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help is needed⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
  • green hay
  • codplay
  • lady maga
  • Beeg Gees
  • Sink
  • Mhania Twain
  • Eric crapton
  • The Poors
  • meat load
  • Dem leopard
  • Stevie wander
  • the beach toys

  I’m ashamed at how bad some of these are.
  Especially Mhania train (Shania Twain / I’m on your train).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you keep bringing “am” into this.
  again none of what I said has anything to do with the definition of “am”

  And why are you being so rude on what is clearly a silly thread?

  My “argument” isn’t that “midnight itself makes no sense”
  My argument is that having the day start at midnight isn’t how people intuitively conceptualize a day, and wouldn’t it be nice if the calendar day more closely resembled our intuition about days (a contiguous daytime period followed by a contiguous nighttime period).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thumbs up 👍⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that where minions are from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If pant is made of shirt, they're inside only.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Pyjamas are for wearing wherever tf you want

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thumbs up 👍⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t how I remember Terminator ending

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can still have that, but base the start of the day on dawn(ish).

  I do like metric time in principle, but also base 12 is better than base 10 so I’m torn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nice because people intuit and talk about days as a contiguous daylight period followed by a contiguous nighttime period, when they aren’t having discussions about timekeeping. It’d be nice if we picked an arbitrary delineation that aligned to that.

  Wrt doing math, realistically you could just pick an arbitrary day of the year as your reference and every day begins at a multiple of 24 hours from that. No math is needed.
  I’m not looking for perfect alignment with local dawn in every location on the planet, I’m aiming for a calendar day that aligns with our intuition of the day/night cycle.
  But more than that, I’m having a silly discussion about timekeeping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The definition of “AM” didn’t factor into anything I said, though.

  You said “5am is morning”, but i said “before 5am” as in the entire time from midnight to 5am. I reminded you that “before 5am includes 00:01” which very much isn’t what people would consider to be morning.

  This is a silly post about timekeeping, I’m not sure why you’re being rude about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware, but that is a modern problem only. And for that, we could have modern solutions that approximate dawn.

  The goal isn’t for it to be perfect day start at sunrise, it’s for it to be conceptually satisfying and more closely match how we talk and intuit about days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  00:01 isn’t the morning. This isn’t negotiable. You’re wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand what you mean here, why would “before dawn of the 3rd” become 00:00-08:00 of the 2nd?

  I’m saying to shift what 00:00 is, to align with dawn(ish), so that a calendar day is comprised of a contiguous day followed by a contiguous night, which is how we typically intuit about days anyways when we aren’t talking about time.

  I know there are practically modern issues with this, but this is a silly post about how unsatisfying it is for the day to start at midnight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been going through a similar journey, and I’ll tell you want I did:

  If you want open source NAS software, then TrueNAS and OpenMediaVault are the main option. Truenas has the better pedigree afaict, but it has pretty significant requirements that mean you’ll need expensive hardware. In the end, I decided it was way more than what I needed, I wanted my NAS to be purely a NAS, and I’d do my server/cluster on different hardware.
  I almost got a HexOS NAS (fork of trueNAS SCALE with a front-end written by a bunch of ex-unraid folks to be much easier to configure and admin), but it’s still beta and I didn’t wanna wait a few months for GA, and also it has the same requirements as trueNAS, so it’d be expensive and you also have to pay for a license.
  I ended up just getting a low-end 2 bay Synology NAS, because it is cheap, and easy to set up shares and backups, and 12tb mirrored is all I needed. I was too intimidated by the prospect of configuring trueNAS correctly, and Synology walked back their requirement of using their own branded drives.

  If you go with a traditional OTS NAS, then you want raid 1 for a 2 bay or raid 5 if you have 4+ bays.
  If you get something like truenas that uses ZFS then you want raidz1 (which is like raid5 with one parity disk). Current there are limitations with raiz if you wanna expand it later, but HexOS folks are sponsoring a ZFS feature called Any RAID, to make expanding raidz more flexible, which will presumably make it’s way to all ZFS NASes when it is finished.

  I’m pretty early in my self-hosting journey, but so far I have a 2 bay Synology with cloud backup and a couple of shared volumes, a rasppi 5 running home assistant, a beelink ser5 running Ubuntu server for portainer, and a cheap VPS for pangolin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It kinda depends on what kinds of daily activity they can learn and what the nature of the support is.

  Like, reading the description, I’m thinking of elderly dementia patients, and I wouldn’t call them “pretty much vegetables”, even if they need very intensive assistance.

  But I suppose “pretty much” can cover a very wide range for different people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that calling the second after midnight to get “early morning” is confusing. But this is all silly to begin with.

  And don’t even get me started on months and seasons.
  Or time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Naw, the start of the day should be at the start of the day. within a margin of error.

  When you say “I don’t think it happens at the same time” that’s only because you’re counting arbitrarily from midnight. If you counted from dawn, then midnight wouldn’t happen at the same time every day.

  There are reasons why actually using dawn is bad.
  But the thrust I’m making is that it’s unsatisfying because we intuit that a “day” is a contiguous day followed by a contiguous night, but that’s not what it really is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but then how do you refer to before 5am on the 5th?
  That’s not morning, and it’s not the night of the 4th. It’s awkward.

  But more importantly, it’s ugly. It’s not how we intuit about days. It’s unsatisfying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t typically call immedi after midnight “early morning”.

  But also this is a silly post.
  maybe I should have said “unsatisfying” instead of “sucks”. The way the calendar works doesn’t match how we typically intuit a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, look at my name.

  And also this is a silly post where I complain about how it feels bad that a calendar day doesn’t consist of a single contiguous day and single contiguous night, even though that’s kind of how we intuit about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t argue with that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Morning and predawn are typically the times immediately surrounding dawn, not the time immediately after midnight.

  If you told me “were going out to take photos at predawn” I’d assume you meant blue hour photos, not moonlit photos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’m having fun arguing pedantics, but this is a pretty silly post. There is no room here for real practical solutions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right.

  But 00:01 is clearly still night. Night is typically considered from dusk til dawn.

  So if we say “the night of the 2nd” then that’s from dusk til 23:59:59 of the 2nd.
  Which is then followed by night that isn’t the night of the 2nd nor night of the 3rd.
  And I’d say “before dawn” or “early morning” of the 3rd would be problematically ambiguous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe new words would fix it.

  But even from the historical perspective it doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they pick dawn as the natural starting point of the photoperiod? As you said, nobody was awake at night, so why did they choose a time when nobody was awake to make the differentiation on the date?
  When you say “sunrise varies quite a bit”, that’s only from the perspective of a midnight-centric time measurement; sunrise wouldn’t vary, it’d be the start of the day by definition.

  There are some issues with using dawn, but they wouldn’t be a concern historically and we have modern solutions;
  Like days wouldn’t be exactly 24 hours, and dawn is affected not just by latitude but also geography.

  But fundamentally it’s more satisfying if a calendar day is compromised of one single contiguous day and one contiguous night 😌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s stupid in 24 hour time too.

  Because what do you mean a day has 2 nights?
  00:00-06:00 is night, and 20:00-23:59 is night.

  So the “night of the 5th” refers to which one, and how do you refer to the other one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but midnight is the mid of the night, so it’s still night 1 second after midnight, it’s not morning of the following day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it, because each calendar day has two half-nights.

  Like… So if you say “the night of the 5th” is that before dawn or after dusk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, but except 6am should be 00:00

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what they are, I just think they’re stupid, because what day does the night belong to?

  It feels like a day should be one daylight period and one night period, but it’s currently a daylight period and two half nights.

  Like… If you say “night of January 1st” is that from midnight to dawn or from dusk to midnight? And then what day owns the other part, and why isn’t it in that calendar day?

• Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day
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