What if the only enabling factor to getting to Kardashev Type I is adoption of UTC for everything?
Yep, we're doomed by the Great Filter.
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Add: Get the room as cool as possible. Feet and hands are great radiators.
IBM's management hierarchy is deeper than the Nine Circles in Dante's Inferno, plus you get to use JIRA.
While being blurry the background has lots of ships and detail that look "off." The slant of the building was putting me off until I saw that this picture was coming from the UAE which has some wild architecture.
The page you linked from Highland definitely seals the deal that the Kronos is a real device.
Looks AI generated. Just the kind of thing that would make the opposition paranoid and expend ammo into the sea.
So, did that happen just before the Tiny Desk Thanksgiving talk? I don't think they ever really explained why he wasn't using the Resolute Desk for that talk.
StackOverflow initially had an interesting idea of putting metrics on things, and unfortunately humanity's penchant for "what gets measured is gamed" was amplified and devolved into a hive of HOA Karens looking for infractions of the rules.
I'll bet that if you "relaunched" a SO-like system and removed all human-visible "points" or "scores" you could achieve a less toxic environment. The only "ranking" is implicit based on your topical subscriptions.
Then again, you could "relaunch" the "relaunch" and "AlphaGo-ify" a bunch of AI agents to compose the dialogs and threads without any human interaction at all. I guess we're on our way already to building Culture minds.
I know people who actively fight me on ISO 8601. They don't like the way it sorts their files/folders, reliant on whatever behavior the operating system does. Whenever data recovery happens or their files are moved, all the change times are blown out the window and the sorting they expect is blown away.
I'm not yet using a 24-hour clock. But it has me thinking. That's not such a bad transition for 24-hour local time into UTC. Or just using both. At some point the inconvenience of the local will become vestigial and UTC is what remains.