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Re: even elder races get tired of waiting
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: even elder races get tired of waiting |
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Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:29:25 +0100 |
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Jean Louis wrote:
> Maybe you should first define what is meant with
> `days-from-date'. [...]
OK, well, hit me then, what should the definition be?
This is for practical use, how many days till my date with
Sandra Bullock - because maybe some things need to be
arranged? ... No? Okay, bad example
But it is also data for the sake of date because it is
interesting at least to a "datadyrkare" like me
(untranslatable Swedish pun), e.g. I did
"Artificial Intelligence" at Uppsala University 2012-05-30,
that was 8y 9m 20d ago.
Now I used 'time-from' (zsh, not Elisp) BTW [1]
> (require 'cl-lib)
> (defun days-from-date (d1 d2)
> (let*((sep "-")
> (d1-data (cl-map 'list #'string-to-number (split-string d1 sep)))
> (d2-data (cl-map 'list #'string-to-number (split-string d2 sep)))
> (y1 (car d1-data))
> (m1 (cadr d1-data))
> (d1 (caddr d1-data))
> (y2 (car d2-data))
> (m2 (cadr d2-data))
> (d2 (caddr d2-data)) )
> (days-from y1 m1 d1 y2 m2 d2) ))
> ;; (days-from-date "2021-03-19" "2021-04-20") ; 31
>
> Gives me 32 now.
? 31!
> (defun days-from (y1 m1 d1 y2 m2 d2)
> (let*((s-then (float-time (encode-time 0 0 0 d1 m1 y1)))
> (s-now (float-time (encode-time 0 0 0 d2 m2 y2)))
> (s-diff (- s-now s-then)) )
> (string-to-number (format-seconds "%d" s-diff) )))
> ;; (days-from 2021 03 19 2021 04 20) ; 31
>
> Now the above gives me 32 in this moment March 22 10:40 EAT,
> how comes? It was giving me 31 before.
31! ??? Glitch in the Matrix?
<incal> are we a simulation? well, if you in the future
can do a simulation as good as this/we, let's call
it s1
<incal> then you can obviously do s2 ... sn as well
<incal> where n -> (inf.)
<incal> that many? yes, because the simulations will soon
do simulations themselves!
<incal> so the probability we are The Real McCoy is s -> 0+
<incal> in practice zero
<incal> now tell me, what IS wrong with this reasoning?
[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/time
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- even elder races get tired of waiting, Emanuel Berg, 2021/03/20
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- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Jean Louis, 2021/03/22
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- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Emanuel Berg, 2021/03/22
- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Jean Louis, 2021/03/22
- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Emanuel Berg, 2021/03/22
- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Emanuel Berg, 2021/03/22
- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Jean Louis, 2021/03/22
- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Emanuel Berg, 2021/03/22
- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Jean Louis, 2021/03/22
- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Emanuel Berg, 2021/03/22
- Re: even elder races get tired of waiting, Jean Louis, 2021/03/22