Being against evil doesn't make you good.
I've been a bit under the weather since Trotcon, but feeling better now.
This weekend I need to work on putting together some poni stuff for my niece (she's up here for her birthday), and my inability to do basic things makes that a bit difficult. So I may be delayed a few days on the Trotcon retro and the other long post I still really really want to share with y'all.
To head off any possible confusion, I've added a clarification to TEEE's story page and a note at the top of the chapter explaining that TEEE was not written using LLM generative AI (the story actually predates this technology by several years).
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I remain alive, and as of June 13th am now the number of symmetries in a cube.
I will be at Trotcon.
Please contact me if you're there! (Or even if not, that's okay too.) 
I might do an author party. I'll announce it with another post. Signal boost would be useful.
Sorry for disappearing. Ironically the thing I wanna talk about is the thing that keeps me from being here at FF or getting anything done. 
New koan! This one comes with a Twist. 
UPDATE: I had a rant here about discrete versus real-value data because of a picture I discuss in the following post.
It turns out the problem is that PHP is stupid, which makes the above a natural output rather than one done by sheer ignorance. See the next blog post for details, if you care.
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Does that work now?
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Yes, it does.
Why on earth would you keep track of seconds of reading time...
And how did you get that picture? Reading stats haven't been a thing for months.
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Reading stats are all over the site, hon.
You would keep track of seconds because "two minutes forty-five seconds" is more informative than "two minutes".
I read your rant in the voice of Twilight Sparkle
Actually, you could send Knighty (or whoever is the site maintainer these days) a message about this, because with FimFiction being a front-end to several fan sites now it's going to be even more important (and more storage/CPU-efficient) to do things the right way.
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I just looked this thing up in PHP and it looks like the language itself might be at fault. Maybe.
In Windows, PHP automatically converts anything above 2Gib-1 to a floating point value. So if at any stage of the calculation there is any large number, the whole thing breaks.
Imma look into it further before reporting it.
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It turns out to be an issue that is mostly PHP's fault (after doing a little research on my own). It is fixable, but it isn't "naturally" fixable (good coding practices won't have any effect by themselves), so I can forgive a programmer for making the mistake.
PHP is a terrible, terrible language.
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Ah, where? I haven't seen any for months. I looked on your user page, I looked on my user page, I looked on everyone's user page. Where?
And I know that seconds are more informative than minutes.
Thank you for that. I am wondering why you would keep track of seconds of reading time; it seems ridiculous.
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For one, go to your library and click on a shelf. Total reading time will be displayed there. Same for any Stories page. I think it's also true for searches. Anywhere there are multiple stories, essentially.
I'm not sure why it doesn't do it for individual stories, though, as that would be highly informative. You can always find out by adding a single story to a new bookshelf.