Madrigal

Aww, did Spez trade the family cow for some “magic” beans?

Good luck rebuilding the farm now, buddy.

Betcha Wakefield ends up involved somehow.

It’s on its way back. They’ve reverted to “negro” already.

There will be peace in our time, eh?

I mean, you could employ them siege weapons. If you have enough of them. An an imagination.

Typo. Perhaps they meant a warm onager.

Presumably, if he lands in any country that actually respects international law (which is a fair few) he will be arrested.

It’ll severely limit his ability to travel internationally. Plus sometimes it’s just about making a statement.

Modern capitalism in a nutshell. Establish a monopoly through any means, then exploit the hell out of that monopoly to become richer and more powerful.

And the log files show the system switched to manual control precisely 3ms before the explosion, every time.

Just like, uh, lightning would.

Jesus Christ, who designed that website? What an absolute abomination.

Dogebama

The Y9999.999999871K bug

Then your only challenge will be converting to and from human-friendly formats and cleansing user input. Easy.

I asked ChatGPT for some potential solutions to the Y10K issue. I particularly enjoyed this suggestion:

Plan for Y10K Early: Build flexible and extensible systems now, with modular design to incorporate future changes seamlessly.

It’s what happens when James uses the good dining forks to unjam the cupboard door again.

Well, that was certainly the peak of human artistic achievement.

Imagine thinking that’ll be the biggest date-related computing problem for a galactic society.

If you really want to make programmers despair, point out:

• massive variations in day, month and year lengths on different worlds.
• some worlds may not have “months” (no moons, or many moons).
• ambiguous definition of “year” for multi-star systems.
• days may be longer than years (hello Venus).
• communication latency across interstellar distances.
• tine dilation.