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Re:The Norway Problem by adwn on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:01AM (#26679983)
> For the ease of entering time units YAML 1.1 parsed any set of two digits, separated by colons, as a number in sexagesimal (base 60).

This is a mind-boggling level of idiocy. Even leaving aside the MAC address problem, this conversion treats "11:15" (= 675) different from "11:15:00" (= 40500), even though those denote the same time, while treating "00:15:00" (15 minutes past midnight) and "15:00" (3 in the afternoon) the same.

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Re:The Norway Problem by azernik on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:46AM (#26687424)
You know you've fucked up when you have to remove features from the spec (which they did in YAML 1.2).
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Re:The Norway Problem by imtringued on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:36PM (#26691349)
On the other hand, you know that you did well, when a direct competitor would look exactly the same minus some undesired features.
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