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Re: xkcd: Day Counter

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On Sat, 4 Apr 2026 10:55:47 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw
<Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> wrote:

>Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> xkcd: Day Counter
>>     https://xkcd.com/3228/
>> 
>> Yes, floating point errors are the bane of my life !  Not so much now 
>> with double precision but the single precision days were nightmares.
>> 
>> Explained at:
>>     https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3228:_Day_Counter
>> 
>> Whatever you do, do not select “Space Opera Mode” in the new mode drop 
>> down list.  "Boat mode" made me a little queasy after a while.  And 
>> "modem mode" does not seem to do anything.
>
>The point about "modem mode" is that everything is painfully s-l-o-w. 
>My browser (Firefox) informed me that a script was slowing my machine 
>down (processor utilisation showed that!) and did I want to stop it?
>I did.

Here, on my Coolby Laptop, it just draws it "line by line" from top to
bottom. Not really slow, and certainly not painful. In Edge. CPU usage
did go from 9% to 60% (actually, it varied between 20% or so and
higher values, with short peaks at 60%). 

But I'm not surprised. The Coolby Laptop is so much faster than the HP
Envy desktop that it was purchased to provide enough functionality to
keep going until a new replacement desktop computer was found that I
gave up on the new desktop idea and am using the Coolby Laptop as my
main computer.

>Darkest Mode was amusing
>Space Opera Mode was a problem.
>Screensaver Mode was fun.

Indeed.
Stained Glass Mode and Airplane Mode were also interesting.
-- 
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  Re: xkcd: Day Counter R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2026-04-04 10:55 +0200
    Re: xkcd: Day Counter Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> - 2026-04-04 09:25 -0700
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    Re: xkcd: Day Counter Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2026-04-04 11:01 -0400
  Re: xkcd: Day Counter Jay Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.me> - 2026-04-04 11:44 -0500
  Re: xkcd: Day Counter Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-04-05 10:22 -0400
    Re: xkcd: Day Counter Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-04-05 14:13 -0700
      Re: xkcd: Day Counter Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-04-06 05:25 +0000
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