Notices by Greg Titus (gregtitus@social.coop)

The unfortunate but inevitable way that @hollie will leave this Earth.

@ericwastl I think dropping the global leaderboard and not having the puzzles lead all the way to Christmas Eve will probably help a lot of participants' sanity as well as your own. 😀

(Certainly, as someone who only very rarely got any global score but has some over-competitive tendencies, this feels like a change for my own good.)

Thank you for all you've done and continue to do!

@airspeedswift Sadly, this is exactly the sort of thing that can completely destroy a poor kid's confidence in their math understanding. There is someone out there right now thinking that they are bad at math because they've been previously been beaten down and so lack the self-confidence to conclude that the question is wrong, and think it must be something they're not getting.

@uliwitness Apparently they are both from the latin fusus (meaning spindle, rod) and are named for their shape. (The first fuses in the bomb sense were for cannons and were long narrow tubes filled with gunpowder.)

@joe @inthehands I don't disagree, but there's a positive side to this. Like technical vocabularies in many disciplines, where you can express more in shorter words and more exactly, but a layman will be confused.

Similarly most consumers of smart phones are now domain experts in smart phones, so we get interfaces that depend on this knowledge to do more, at the expense of confusion to those who are unfamiliar.

Helped fix a bug this morning in our code that was last modified on May 1, 2003.

20 years, 10 months, and 27 days ago.

Our code (which we were able to clean up references to and delete, fortunately) was an Obj-C category on NSTableView that now causes a bug in SwiftUI List on recent macOS because SwiftUI uses AppKit for that underneath.

It's simultaneously amazing how long-lived things can be and also what an unstable house of cards all of modern computing is.

@inthehands @deirdresm @lisamelton There's always time! You could start one tomorrow!

OH SURE, let's do a daylight savings change right at midnight on a leap day. AND combine two time zone regions into one at the same time.

Kazakhstan is really trying as hard as they can to test every aspect of your date/time code tomorrow.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/kazakhstan