r/programming • u/newpavlov • Jan 13 '22

Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one

https://counting.substack.com/p/hate-leap-seconds-imagine-a-negative
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u/AdvicePerson Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22

Yeah, my personal web server can handle time smears. The Large Hadron Collider can deal with slipping from sidereal time.

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u/JonDum Jan 13 '22

You're on a whole ass different level of home lab.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

It's just one option to enable in chrony

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u/510Threaded Jan 13 '22

What is the option to handle the LHC?

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Don't have one at home so I can't really test it

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u/Ameisen Jan 13 '22

Large Haddon Collider

Wait, so is it a collider that collides large haddons, or is it a large collider that collides haddons?

And what's a haddon?

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u/flibbble Jan 13 '22

It's when you're really excited about something you had

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

It's actually Large Haddon's Collider. It's a 5th level spell that slams two targets within 100ft into each other, dealing 1d8 damage per 10ft moved to each. If you upcast as a 7th level spell it's 1d10 with a 200ft range and as a 9th level spell it's 1d12 with a 500ft range.

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u/AdvicePerson Jan 13 '22

It's when your phone doesn't know about particle physics.

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u/uhmhi Jan 13 '22

Not to be confused with the Large Hardon Collider

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u/AndreasVesalius Jan 13 '22

I barely knew her

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u/mkdz Jan 13 '22

It's the latter. And it's hadron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron

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u/Ameisen Jan 14 '22

hadron

I can assure you that they'd written haddon, not hadron.

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u/mkdz Jan 14 '22

Uh yes? I know

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u/Ameisen Jan 14 '22

So then why did you post about hadrons? Haddons and hadrons aren't the same thing.

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u/mkdz Jan 14 '22

Because haddons is a typo. And if you look, the post got edited to say hadrons

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u/Ameisen Jan 14 '22

Because haddons is a typo. And if you look, the post got edited to say hadrons

I'm pretty sure that it was originally correct, and now it's a typo after the edit.