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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • When you pay a company and they provide you with a domain (you choose) and give you a webserver, some disk space, a database etc.

    I pay about 30 euros a year for 5 websites. They are all very basic (either some php stuff I made, or WordPress). These websites have very few visitors so the hosting specs don’t really matter. All these websites have a specific domain name, some disk space, and a database.

    For this price they offer PHP and MySQL. So it’s not a dedicated server where I’m root and can Install other stuff.




  • I’m not the one you asked, but what I like isn’t really about PHP itself, but the fact that I can get dirt cheap hosting with PHP and MySQL. Every time I want to create a small “app” that makes some manual task easier it’s very useful to create something I can access from the internet.

    Python is really useful for stuff like that too, but (in my experience) not as easy and cheap to use as an web app.

    For example I go to dinner with some friends every month and we always forget who’s turn it is to choose and book a restaurant. So I just made this PHP page that shows the current and next 2 months with a name. So we always use that to see who’s turn it is.



  • I don’t think time doesn’t have meaning with a system like the beats system. It’s just that the meaning is more personal. For you 600 beats is dinnertime and for me it’s the moment the alarm clock wakes me up.

    Dinner is still at 600 for you and your entire city or country or state (depending on how big your country is).

    But for larger countries it can be that most stores close at 600 but some open earlier and close at 550 or something.

    At this moment we have a system that also can be pretty confusing. Like when you have a meeting with people in different timezones. Oh we meet at 14:30? Like our 14:30 or yours? Or when you do stuff with computer systems and 2 servers are in different timezones, it’s a nightmare


  • Actually it’s not that difficult, as you can see on the wiki page time is shown in

    @392.51

    So yeah there are fractions.

    Also I don’t really see the problem without timezones, so if it’s @451 maybe that is night for you and morning for me.

    It would actually make traveling easier, because you will immediately see what time it is for your family at home.

    Instead of the hours at a place being the same (like 19:20 is in the evening for everyone), now we keep the time the same but we have different experiences at certain beats.