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Temporal.

Yeah a lot of these popular libraries - including Moment, Luxon, Day.js - commit the sin of using a single type of object for distinct concepts. Absolute time, civil time? Basicall…

The IANA timezone database does occasionally revise historical rules when relevant information comes to light. So you might have calculated that some historical figure died at such…

> Most libraries implement timezone aware dates as an offset from UTC internally. For what it's worth, the libraries that are generally considered "good" (e.g. java.time, Nodatime,…

PostgreSQL internally uses a 2000-01-01 epoch for storing timestamps.

https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/query/#using-java-... > note that all OffsetDateTime instances will have be in UTC (have offset 0) Is this not effectively an Instant? Are…

Yeah you gotta watch out for those "Etc" identifiers, especially if you were thinking about exposing all the identifiers to your users wholesale. The file for them has this comment…

What happens if a country that's currently at the new UTC-12 anchor wants to move back an hour under that system? Are they forced to "wrap around" and move to the next day instead?…

喷 is included in HSK 5 and Heisig's version of the most common ~3000 characters, it can't be that infrequent.

In addition, the Heisig method doesn't teach "meanings" at all, rather "keywords", which in many cases are only kinda sorta vaguely related to their respective characters' (fragmen…

According to Wikipedia: > "Since 2024 the capital ⟨ẞ⟩ is preferred over ⟨SS⟩." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F Check reference #5 and compare it to the older wording in refere…

Keep at it, consistently doing a bit every day, and you'll get there. I went through all the free beginner videos (at the time) before moving onto intermediate, then did the same b…

The idea that Mandarin grammar is easy only really applies at a surface level. Yeah for the most part it's SVO word order and there aren't any verb conjugations, but the deeper you…

The first book actually only contains the most common (by their methodology) 1000 characters: > "The 55 lessons from Book 1 cover the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the Chi…

Have a look at Dreaming Spanish, it exists precisely to bridge the "comprehensibility gap" for learners. https://www.dreamingspanish.com (or find the Youtube channel) There's tons …

The main thing learners utilizing comprehensible input need is volume, so if you actually want to make it useful as more than a one-off novelty, your priority kind of needs to be i…

Nope, Spain uses « » (though mostly only in formal writing these days) or English-style quotes.

VS Code has semantic highlighting too, and I'm pretty sure it works with Python these days (might need the right extension/colour scheme).

> there is currently no sensible way to type a non empty array in Typescript If we remove the "sensible" requirement: type NonEmptyArray = [any, ...any[]]

> undo a very Microsoft oddity I don't think Microsoft are the reason why JS uses UTF-16 strings.

Also worth checking out something like Clozemaster.

I think the part he left out is that (if I recall correctly) he was allegedly speeding to some degree.

Drunk people lying down in the street is definitely something I've seen several times in my life.

I was already tired of it a decade ago. It's ok when the service also offers a lifetime option though.