• (nodebb)

    The curious thing is that 32296 °F is not 32767 Rankine. It's about 13 degrees short...

  • RLB (unregistered)

    I don't see the FIDE one. Gukesh did win the 11th game of the match on Sunday 8 december 2024.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    What crazy measurement protocol would be using Rankine?

  • (nodebb) in reply to RLB

    This may not be obvious unless you're regular Facebook user. The text "tSla3c507up5co2ng67261h68410acs6hg3gh6hc46o1l1fgurg3geda59a9" is normally where the timestamp would be saying when the post was made, such as "3h" or "1d" to indicate a post made 3 hours ago or 1 day ago, and hovering the mouse over that text displays the time in absolute format.

    For Phillip J.'s submission, that reminds me of leap seconds. Whenever a leap second gets added, there is a minute that contains 61 seconds instead of 60 seconds. If he had entered the queue at precisely 23:55 UTC on the December 31 or June 30 before a leap second was to be inserted (the last one was in December 2016), then perhaps one could make an argument that a processing time of 5 minutes, 60 seconds was correct. (But that's almost certainly not what happened here.)

  • (nodebb)

    It's not just 4+ letter TLDs that confound email validation. At least one site I use rejects my @alum.mit.edu address. I suspect it's because the domain has 3 components instead of the usual 2. Many international domains have 3+ components (e.g. XXX.co.uk in England), but it might have been a company that only serves the US.

  • (nodebb)

    I'm wondering if 32296°F is 32767°C, but I'm fairly certain it's not... unless °F transforms differently at higher temps...? After all, it's possible gravity works differently on larger distances (or however that worked) so, who knows...

  • David (unregistered)

    The voucher says you need to input the 9 digit code, and "Invalid:3" is nine... well, characters.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Erik

    I'm wondering if 32296°F is 32767°C

    Not even close (it's 18197.stuff °C), and it's not 32767 Rankine either (Rankine == like Kelvin, with 0 at absolute zero, but incremented in the same steps as Fahrenheit). (It's about 13 degrees short of being 32767 Rankine.)

  • (nodebb)

    Phillip's : Since the number is "processing time", it is calculated from some underlying data. I suspect the result is something like 359.6 seconds. Which is 5 minutes and 59.6 seconds, which rounds to...

  • Randal L. Schwartz (github)

    Validating email addresses is typically nearly always a WTF in itself. If you permit what the RFCs permit, you get perhaps some false negatives when checking for invalid addresses, but if you narrow it down to only addresses you might have seen, you get a lot of false positives. I've come across numerous sites (still!) that don't permit dots in the local part, or (worse) plus signs for plus-addressing on gmail/icloud.

  • Vilx- (unregistered)

    I mean, it's colder if you convert it to Celsius.

  • (nodebb)

    32296 sure feels like a 16 bit integer overflow/underflow/wraparound error. But it's 472 (+/- 1) away from the wrap point. Hmmm.

  • (nodebb) in reply to WTFGuy

    But it's 472 (+/- 1) away from the wrap point.

    One could argue that it is about 13 away from (short of) a different wrap point, int16_t temp_in_rankine = 0x7fff;.

  • Dagclo (unregistered)

    I ran into the "hotter than the surface of the sun* bug while in Salt Lake City. Many hikes were had

  • Nonymous (unregistered)

    I feel like the people who made the weather app UI deserve a bit of credit. They were prepared for the eventuality of temperature having more than six digits, and handled it gracefully

  • (nodebb) in reply to Randal L. Schwartz

    Not too long ago, I just deleted some email validation code. It just checks if the value is non-empty. Just pass the value and have the MTA deal with it. I was tired of chasing the latest version of the email validator library.

  • (nodebb)

    The only way to correctly validate an email address is to send a mail to it requesting a reply and then seeing if you get one (other than a delivery failure notification).

    I always used to say, if you must do any other kind of email validation, just check it's got an @ in it somewhere.

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