• jet@hackertalks.com
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    4 days ago

    This is why the military uses 03 hundred hours… Makes things clear, and sortable regardless of your algorithm

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      4 days ago

      Sure. No one ever in this entire world ever did a int(“0200”), because it is insane to represent numbers as actual numbers. I am so glad that military invented a standard working with any algorithm.

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        4 days ago

        I mean, I hear you, but to be fair, I think the military has been using that kind of a timing convention since before computing even really existed.

        … We did more or less invent modern computers, initially, to compute artillery ranging tables.

        I’m pretty sure that predates even the concept of … a string vs int data type.

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          Depends on what you call a “computer”. The first electronic calculating machine sold by the company now known as IBM was for the census, and it was prior to WWI.

          Edit: we need to fight back on this idea that the military drives technological innovation. That’s only true because of the shitty values our society has.