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msandin
2y ago
https://youtu.be/-ReqdyCxZ9I?si=e6WjONWMOGHG7Wja Sounds fantastic on YouTube, even better IRL.
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msandin
2y ago
Having seen this in person my favorite aspect is the sound it makes, absolutely mesmerizing.
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msandin
5y ago
I mean, obviously possible but I suspect that the clumsy translation adds a lot of obtuseness to it. In Swedish it looks straightforward enough that you only need to squint just for a moment when you see "överkast" and "Indir
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msandin
5y ago
They're missing an explanation for one of the more famous but subtle IKEA naming puns. "Indira" is at this page says an Indian name and also the name of an India-inspired IKEA bedspread. But bedspred in Swedish would be "
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msandin
10y ago
Of course we knew who did what and when, that was not the problem and I never said it was. But the start date+time they entered for recurring series was converted to UTC on the client before it was sent to the server. So when it was decided
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msandin
10y ago
The answer to the question "when did some work happen" is an instant and I specifically said that instants should be stored in UTC. I'm talking about storing recurrent schedules, i.e. information about when an (potentially in
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msandin
10y ago
Please make the distinction that _instants in time_ should be stored in the UTC but time specifications for scheduling purposes (10:30, mondays 14:50, 2017-05-17T13:40) are not instants in time, they are specification of time to be interpre
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10y ago
Indeed, but this is representative of a very real change in the relationship between your clocks. The only way to keep this non-surprising is to make the time zone the schedule runs in explicit to the user. If somebody in a different zone e
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msandin
10y ago
Unless you do recurrent scheduling. In that case it's important to understand that you schedule in a particular timezone. Both because the relationship between local time an UTC changes throughout the year with DST changes and because
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msandin
15y ago
Not very it would seem given that "pipa" does not mean "pipe" in the sense TPB are using it but rather only in the sense of a "pipe for smoking". A pipe in the sense TPB use it would be "rör". But relating the combination "trash" and "pipe