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No more leap seconds Timekeeping is officially changing

gmiller123456 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:09:39 +0000

Article URL: https://earthsky.org/human-world/no-more-leap-seconds-timekeeping-change/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117393

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New comment by gmiller123456 in "We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person"

gmiller123456 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:58:37 +0000

This guy is a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "State of the Map 2026"

gmiller123456 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:02:50 +0000

Not yet, but I assume they will. They said they only ever show the official names designated by the country in question. Probably because a lot of countries disagree on borders as well as names and get really upset with people who get it wrong.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "State of the Map 2026"

gmiller123456 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:30:02 +0000

Even though he can't tell others to follow them, they often choose to do so anyway. E.g. Google Maps displays the Gulf of America.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes"

gmiller123456 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:03:46 +0000

"Seductive Poison" is a good one. It's a story about the "Koolaid suicide" cult. It's one lady's story about how she got indoctrinated, abused, and ultimately escaped from Jonestown. It's told from her perspective, and really does a good job of showing how a seemingly reasonable person can get wrapped up in that.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "50k Boat Names"

gmiller123456 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:40:29 +0000

Ocean sailing leaves a lot of free time. Also the people who can afford to do it have a lot of free time. So I don't find it that surprising.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Atomic Clocks"

gmiller123456 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:52:08 +0000

The one we used is still active JU-55961 (area code 502), only difference is it plays an ad first. It had a little jingle used to memorize it, so I still remember it today. I searched the internet for that number, and apparently there were hundreds of these JU numbers for different services.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

gmiller123456 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:59:39 +0000

I'm surprised they'd even need to say that, let alone people who heard it were just learning it. I would imagine the overwhelming majority of cases don't involve forensic evidence. I've only had close involvement in a handful of cases that resulted in a conviction, but none involved forensic evidence. In one they took fingerprints (and the handle to our cash drawer, which they never returned), but that didn't result in a conviction.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

gmiller123456 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:53:43 +0000

My experience is the exact opposite. I worked remotely for a good 10 years, after a buyout we returned to the office for a couple years, and returned to remote during 2020.

When working from home, when 5pm hits, the first thing I want to do is get out of the house. I do lots of group activities, hiking, kayaking, cycling, pool, trivia, photography, etc.

When I have to go in to the office, when 5pm hits, all I want to do is go home. Once I'm home, I'm much less likely to leave.

I understand I'm a sample size of one. And even though several of my who work from home friends feel the same way, it's obvious I never meet the people who stay at home. But I'm curiious as to whether the people staying at home would go out if they worked in an office. Seems like that'd make most sense if you're hanging out with people you work with, which I don't do much. But I doubt there's a good sample size of people who've switched back and forth.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets"

gmiller123456 — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:02:09 +0000

I'm not sure if it was a deliberate omission or not, but it's worth pointing out in the Sunset model that the sky should not go black as soon as the Sun goes below the horizon as it does in the demo. The Sun will still be shining on the atmosphere above you, and in areas above your horizon for a considerable time after Sunset. There will still be a noticeable twilight (in Earth's atmosphere) until the Sun is 18 degrees below the horizon. It's probably not practical to implement using ray tracing, but there are common algorithms to model it.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms – Moncef Abboud"

gmiller123456 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:48:36 +0000

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New comment by gmiller123456 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

gmiller123456 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:28:51 +0000

Appeals court decisions generally only apply to their own jurisdiction. But they obviously hold a lot of weight when cited in others.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "RSA and Python"

gmiller123456 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:08:33 +0000

One of the bigger hurdles in implementing RSA is having an algorithm which can multiply the large numbers in real time. If you try a niave multiplication algorithm, you might find you'll never get an answer. A lot of hardware now comes with special instructions which implement efficient algorithms for doing this.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

gmiller123456 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:03:13 +0000

I gave build123d a try about a year ago. I really wanted it to work, but it has a lot of issues, mainly in documentation. I'm going off memory here, and it's been a while, so maybe some of these have been fixed. One of the biggest issues is one of the fundamental classes (I want to say "Part") is not documented at all. And it's essentially the most important class. I tried enumerating all of the methods on the class, but didn't make much progress. Fillets were promising, but it seems once you've got a complex edge from a few operations it quits working, or at least did for my part. You're supposed to be able to do something like b=Box(10,10,10), then access the width as b.width, but all of those properties were always zero.

OpenSCAD supposedly supports Python now (https://pythonscad.org/), but I was not able to get it to work at all. I've fallen back to just OpenSCAD, even though it has limitations, at least I'm familiar with them. I'm mostly just waiting for improvements to anything that'll make it better than OpenSCAD.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

gmiller123456 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:11:08 +0000

Budget boards start at $42? Not really sure what the criteria was for being included, but it looks like you can still get a RPi 2B for $25. And Orange Pis are available for under $20.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Graphics Programming Resources"

gmiller123456 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:09:30 +0000

No. With the old style you had to draw every pixel, and you'd have to develop primitives for drawing a point, a line, or a triangle. With a GPU you essentially give the GPU a bunch of data and tell it to draw points, lines, or triangles for you. You then create "shaders" which are functions that the GPU calls to ask where to position a vertex, or what color to make a pixel, with some "magic" that passes data between the two. It's best understood by looking at the code for the almighty gradient triangle: https://webgpufundamentals.org/webgpu/lessons/webgpu-inter-s...

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Graphics Programming Resources"

gmiller123456 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:43:34 +0000

"Basic" is a relative term. Modern graphics GPUs do not work the same way memory mapped graphics do, and working with them is different at a fundamental level.

You are probably better off searching for old graphics programming books from the 90s. The code they have likely won't work, the the algorithms should be what you're looking for, and shouldn't be hard to adapt.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google"

gmiller123456 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:17:39 +0000

Sounds like great news. Users will eventually figure out other search engines produce more relevant results and Google's dominance will fade. Hopefully they never "fix" it.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines"

gmiller123456 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:19:37 +0000

The Mythbusters also tried it in the "Free Energy" episode. They pretty much said extracting any useful amount of energy is not worth the effort.

New comment by gmiller123456 in "CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)"

gmiller123456 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:50:02 +0000

> Width and height are meaningless for inline elements

Really not sure what you're trying to get at there, obviously any element that displays will have a width and height. Maybe you meant a user specified width/height, but the entire point of my post is an inline-block is an inline element with a specifiable width and height. And we've always had the IMG tag, which is also an inline element with a specifiable width and height. The obvious and intuitive choice would have been to not put artificial limits on inline elements.