NoInkling

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by NoInkling 1y ago
Temporal.
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by NoInkling 1y ago
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? Basically the same thing right? Just shoehorn them both in.
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by NoInkling 1y ago
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-and-such a time UTC (based on a documented local time), but
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by NoInkling 2y ago
> 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, Temporal) all offer a "zoned datetim
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by NoInkling 2y ago
PostgreSQL internally uses a 2000-01-01 epoch for storing timestamps.
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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 you saying that the instant i
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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: > POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich,
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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? Or do you move the anchor itself back (to UT
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by NoInkling 2y ago
喷 is included in HSK 5 and Heisig's version of the most common ~3000 characters, it can't be that infrequent.
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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' (fragment of) meaning. Either way, the
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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 reference #12.
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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 before moving onto advanced, and only then was I really
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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 get, the more you run into constructions that are
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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 Chinese writing system, plus another 500 included eithe
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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 of free content to keep you occup
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by NoInkling 2y ago
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 in pumping out the content (while keeping it relatively inter
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by NoInkling 3y ago
Nope, Spain uses « » (though mostly only in formal writing these days) or English-style quotes.
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by NoInkling 3y ago
VS Code has semantic highlighting too, and I'm pretty sure it works with Python these days (might need the right extension/colour scheme).
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by NoInkling 4y ago
> there is currently no sensible way to type a non empty array in Typescript If we remove the "sensible" requirement: type NonEmptyArray = [any, ...any[]]
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by NoInkling 4y ago
> undo a very Microsoft oddity I don't think Microsoft are the reason why JS uses UTF-16 strings.
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by NoInkling 4y ago
Also worth checking out something like Clozemaster.
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by NoInkling 4y ago
I think the part he left out is that (if I recall correctly) he was allegedly speeding to some degree.
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by NoInkling 4y ago
Drunk people lying down in the street is definitely something I've seen several times in my life.
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by NoInkling 4y ago
I was already tired of it a decade ago. It's ok when the service also offers a lifetime option though.
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by NoInkling 4y ago
RPG Maker XP and later are very flexible because you can actually use code and modify major parts of the game engine (you're limited mostly by the actual editor). But yes, in RM2K/2K3 your ability to break away from the standard J
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by NoInkling 4y ago
Thanks for this! I've also been learning Spanish (for a while now) so I'm always on the lookout for input/practice material. I have a lot of nostalgia for RM2K/2K3 and the 16-bit era of RPGs, so it would be cool to check
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by NoInkling 4y ago
Here's an interesting approach using rules: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/soft-deletion-with-postg...
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by NoInkling 4y ago
I know DeepL doesn't do low-resource languages, but it would be interesting to see a translation quality comparison between the two.
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by NoInkling 4y ago
Duolingo does have the stories section for low-level, contextful reading/listening material.
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by NoInkling 4y ago
Sounds similar to Clozemaster ( https://www.clozemaster.com/ ), which has a freemium model.

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