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Well, it is a bit annoying when you consider that it's the paid version. It would be a bit like having Netflix tell you to just go and buy the DVD at the local shop.
ChatGPT failed a few times on me as well, telling me to look it up on the internet or search the forums.
Oh, and that one time when we were discussing underwater mining and out of the blue it tells me that the biggest risk to it is disturbing the underwater civilizations
I finally started playing Elden Ring and I must admit I'm glad I didn't buy it when it came out. I love RPGs, but this one is iffy.
The lore is quite funny, with the 'maidens of the two fingers', your main problem being that you're 'maidenless', then that girl shows up, gives you the horse and tells you she'll be your maiden, only to later on tell you that she's actually no maiden at all
, but other than that , the game has a few issues.
Besides the game world looking a bit like a lunatic's fever dream and the way you get thrown into the world with no clue about what to do next, what breaks the game for me is the constant respawn of the enemies, in the same places and with the same routines.
Imagine you win a hard fight , rush to a place of grace to level up and all that and , when you return, they're all there and alive again.
Even assuming you'd be willing to tough it out and play without levelling up and upgrades, you'd still need to go to the grace places to advance the story, which then resets the gameworld.
ChatGPT failed a few times on me as well, telling me to look it up on the internet or search the forums.
Oh, and that one time when we were discussing underwater mining and out of the blue it tells me that the biggest risk to it is disturbing the underwater civilizations
I finally started playing Elden Ring and I must admit I'm glad I didn't buy it when it came out. I love RPGs, but this one is iffy.
The lore is quite funny, with the 'maidens of the two fingers', your main problem being that you're 'maidenless', then that girl shows up, gives you the horse and tells you she'll be your maiden, only to later on tell you that she's actually no maiden at all
, but other than that , the game has a few issues.Besides the game world looking a bit like a lunatic's fever dream and the way you get thrown into the world with no clue about what to do next, what breaks the game for me is the constant respawn of the enemies, in the same places and with the same routines.
Imagine you win a hard fight , rush to a place of grace to level up and all that and , when you return, they're all there and alive again.
Even assuming you'd be willing to tough it out and play without levelling up and upgrades, you'd still need to go to the grace places to advance the story, which then resets the gameworld.
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Simple things are hard, apparently. I never expected to struggle with the meaning of something as simple as "in 30 days", but being tasked with implementing automation for customer data removal and notification thereof, I feel like I need a lawyer... 
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Simple things are hard, apparently. I never expected to struggle with the meaning of something as simple as "in 30 days", but being tasked with implementing automation for customer data removal and notification thereof, I feel like I need a lawyer...
Does Switzerland use the same definition of the calender week as German DIN? (For a long time, MS Office did not support it and today only with correct settings...)
jedidia
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I would assume so, but I've never checked...
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Simple things are hard, apparently. I never expected to struggle with the meaning of something as simple as "in 30 days", but being tasked with implementing automation for customer data removal and notification thereof, I feel like I need a lawyer...
Timekeeping is full of edge cases.
Even if you define 30 days as "2.592 megaseconds", you still have the possibility of a leap second.
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Good news, the leap second is on its way out.
"After many years of discussions by different standards bodies, in November 2022, at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures, it was decided to abandon the leap second by or before 2035."
en.wikipedia.org
"After many years of discussions by different standards bodies, in November 2022, at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures, it was decided to abandon the leap second by or before 2035."
Leap second - Wikipedia
GLS
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Seems like kicking the can down the road...Good news, the leap second is on its way out.
"After many years of discussions by different standards bodies, in November 2022, at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures, it was decided to abandon the leap second by or before 2035."
Leap second - Wikipedia
jedidia
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I'm just glad I am none of the guys that have to update their time libraries for the umpteenth time because bureaucrats keep shuffling things around...
Linguofreak
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This would actually probably be a simplification for the next century or so, and then some future generation would have to make a mad scramble.
Though actually, the best solution would just be to declare that civil time is always derived directly from UT1, and to distribute TAI and UT1 separately and just have a parameter in your time-related system calls that selects between them.
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Or until the calendar is off by ten days again.
