nyckiwhat the hell is going on with the way we write dates in the US?! or street addresses for that matter?!
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@nycki mixed-endian cpu architectures
@amberdambey gaAAAHHHHHH
Freja@nycki @amberdambey i've actually debugged a real issue caused by varying endianness in a mixed-endian device
@nycki @amberdambey on the wii u's (a powerpc machine) gpu, vertex attributes are always little endian but uniforms default to big endian (it's toggleable but defaults to big endian)
this means when you write code to use this gpu, you need to do a normal memcpy to any uniform buffers, but a byte swapping memcpy to any vertex buffers. if you look in the nintendo developer docs on this matter, it just says (paraphrased) "yeah this is the way it is. just deal with it i guess???"
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Suddenly, this is unexpectedly one of the least problems everyone else in the world thinks Americans need to fix.
#ThoseFunnyAmericans
Suddenly, this is unexpectedly one of the least problems everyone else in the world thinks Americans need to fix.
#ThoseFunnyAmericans
irina 🐇🌷
if you write the apartment number in the building number (which is the norm here), it's logically consistent
( 6/413 Main St ) - Street location
( Townsville, NY ) - Locality
( 12345 ) - Nearest Mail Sorting Centre
@irina yeah I can get behind that. that's sane-ish.
I still think that the lines should be reversed, actually? if you're delivering a letter, surely you look at the sorting center number first, right? so it should be at the top.
@nycki but if you're delivering a letter, like a postie on a bike, you're already in that state and city, so you don't need to look at it anyway
people generally write most->least specific (e.g 18/11/2025) because that's the order we tend to think about things in, i think? i don't think about "my friend in Australia Victoria Melbourne," i think about "my friend in Melbourne"
John Colagioia@nycki I recently mentioned elsewhere that, when USPS rolled out ZIP+4, and before everything got scanned anyway and it stopped mattering, that they would almost certainly deliver a parcel to the right person with only a surname and a nine-digit ZIP code, which makes the whole mess even funnier, like if somebody looked at dates and said "you know what? Just use a Julian Day"...
Red 🟥@nycki addresses in finland go like
Recipient's name
Street 10 [apt 20]
City 00000
Finland
anyway i think postal addresses are also influenced by international postal tradition; postal workers are often sorting mail with addresses they can't parse (when it's going to another country), and for whatever reason, we've established that the country (the only part they need to be able to read) goes at the end of the address, so ig sorting the whole thing from most to least specific just followed