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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 14:58:22 EDT 
Bob Jonkman
You know you're getting old when your idea of "Recent events" is longer ago than the people reminding you of them... -
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 06:45:00 EDT 
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Wow, Ali G Science Rap is already 10 years old.
No, wait, it came out in 2012, that's recent. Wait! Oh.
farside.link/invidious/watch?v…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6HPT… -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2022 05:07:25 EST
Bob Jonkman
According The Register's forum, this is the patch: "The current fix: Represent 2022-01-02 as 2021-12-33."
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/01/03/exchange_servery2k22_flaw/#c_4389861 -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2022 02:34:39 EST 
Alexandre Oliva
what's most incredible about this date representation is that it was introduced after Y2K. it wouldn't have worked up to [19]99
think about it. someone implemented that after all the many years of preparation and patching decades-old systems for Y2K, knowing (or, worse, without realizing) that it had at most a couple of decades of use. how screwy and irresponsible is that? -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jan-2022 23:11:09 EST
Bob Jonkman
From what I can tell, they were using the decimal digits of the 32-bit number as a sort of BCD, with the base10 digits representing portions of the date. The example used is "the new date value of 2,201,010,001 is over the max value of 'long' int32 being 2,147,483,647". So, YY MMDDHHMM ?
What an extraordinarily stupid way to represent a date. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 23:59:13 EST
Bob Jonkman
Some days I'm glad my instance of #GNUsocial doesn't support #ActivityPub and isolates me from the idiocy on Mastodon of which I already get plenty from #Birdsite. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 22:32:00 EST
Bob Jonkman
And, of course, Wikipedia knows everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series#Adaptations
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 22:29:40 EST
Bob Jonkman
Happily, it's been about 50 years since I read the first three novels, and about 20 years since I started on the sequels (which never did finish, got about halfway through the third sequel book). So my foggy memories of the storyline in the original trilogy shouldn't detract from the TV series.
I recall there was a BBC radio play or a BBC TV series in the 1980s, I heard at least one episode on the radio but never caught it again.... -
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 05:43:16 EST
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
@Bob Jonkman It is highly character-driven.
It uses key characters, the Empire, the exile, Terminus, Psychohistory, two kingdoms instead of the Four Kingdoms and some echoes of half of the first book and fainter echoes from other parts of the series, while the main story maps roughly to half the first book.
It shifts characters around, fleshes them out, gives them more connections between each other, adds its own world concepts and turns key characters into women. There is no Scientism, only straightforward diplomacy, and there are fewer Seldon Crises (only one).
Apart from the pacing I think it's a far better TV series than a faithful adaptation would be. The concepts it adds are interesting and fit with the world and give it depth, they're not just random stuff. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 01:53:22 EST
Bob Jonkman
Don't get me wrong, I think Foundation is one of the greatest SF stories ever written. And I hadn't heard there was a series, must find out when and where it airs... !SciFi @clacke -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 01:49:57 EST
Bob Jonkman
So you're telling me the series closely follows the 9? 12? books of the Foundation Trilogy... -
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 05-Dec-2021 07:46:46 EST
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
A few more episodes in the pacing is a real problem. Now I'm just watching because I'm invested in the characters, but the main epic story is really moving at snail's pace. -
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 10-Oct-2021 20:32:09 EDT
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
#Foundation is a very good series, judging from the first episode. It takes Asimov's grand galactic imperial scope and vision add three-dimensional people with motivations and purpose. Beautifully shot, acted and rendered, of course.
People are making so much cool stuff now that has finally become technologically possible.
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