I once caught factual errors in an engineering trade magazine. If even engineers can't report engineering, what chance mortals?
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Replying to @shieldfoss
I remember about 1998-9 a months-long debate in the letters section of Computing magazine about whether 2000 was a leap year.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
IIRC: "Every fourth year unless a century unless unless a millennium." So yes. But if it was ever important, I'd look it up.
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Replying to @shieldfoss
would you email a trade press paper to tell them your wrong guess? People did and they printed them on paper and mailed them out
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Replying to @anomalyuk
Was that guess wrong? 2k not a leap year? (But no, I generally don't state guesses without explicitly labelling it "guess.")
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Replying to @shieldfoss
400 not 1000 . 2400 will be a leap year, 3000 will not. But that wasn't really my point.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
I can imagine reading a "send in your answers" humor column but not imagine actually sending the answer in.
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people who were writing software that would break within months were publicly exposing their ignorance.
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