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Most Useful Use Cases

1.) Fan Coordination for Niche Interests: For obscure games or media (e.g., "XONOTIC"), high-RDV days can prompt spontaneous group sessions every few weeks, months, or even years, without needing calendars or servers.

2.) Media Reconsumption and Group Watches: Assign RDVs to movies, books, or videos (e.g., "SHREK_2001") for synchronized rewatches. RDVT adds timing for live streams or premieres, useful for content creators scheduling events at pseudorandom but shared times.

3.) Remembrance and Appreciation Days: Create special days for artists, events, or personal milestones (e.g., "YEAR_2000" or "HARRY_POTTER_SMOKES_WEED_Cdfkq2Nmb3c"). This could extend to historical events or personal tasks, providing a lightweight alternative to traditional calendars.

4.) Personal Reminder Systems: Integrate into apps or browser extensions to notify users about bookmarks or to-do items probabilistically, reducing notification fatigue. For instance, a threshold of RDV ≥ 2 ensures infrequent but timely prompts.

5.) Live Events and Scheduling: With RDVT, coordinate real-time activities like video calls or streams at exact UTC times on reminder days. This is especially useful for global teams or communities avoiding time zone conflicts.

Re:YouTube seems to be down on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:53PM (#45600284)
Yet another reminder to download your favorite videos before YouTube goes down again or they get deleted or privated, or whatever.
$15B is a mind-blowing amount. I came here just to make sure it wasn't an M to B typo.
Re:Does anyone remember websites? on Saturday October 11, 2025 @11:40AM (#45549992)
My first day on Seven39 just concluded and I'm def coming back.
You should perhaps rename it (because of the change I'm proposing) and make the time window either fully random each day or it should slide a bit each day so the whole Earth has equal ability to participate.
Re:OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB on Friday December 20, 2024 @01:51PM (#42473713)
This is actually mindblowing!
Re:Exploring 120 Years of Timezones on Monday October 14, 2024 @03:43PM (#41841126)
Timezones are just so, so, so nasty. Why couldn't we just somehow make out shit function on UTC or something?
Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:18AM (#40209730)
IMO humanity should just do ASCII and call it a day. I'm not talking about viability of this, just my wishes.
Re:New Seafloor Map Only 25% Done, with 6 Years to Go on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @12:09PM (#39919243)
Don't know the resolution they're working with, but they should defo prioritize the MH370 potential crash area.
Re:Has Trust in the U.S. Intelligence Community Eroded? on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:58PM (#39899251)
Pretty sure CIA is the big brain which essentially controls the world.
That's some malware level stuff right there if you ask me.
Re:Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:37PM (#39196213)
And it's built in Rust. They know what's good. :P
Re:YouTube-dl has been taken down on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:35PM (#39196180)