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by dexwiz 5y ago
If you get a chance read through the IANA Timezone date base files. It has all sorts of interesting tidbits related to this.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Generally you end up with some “apply offset” code that tries to convert between an date time and a date by applying the timezone offset. This generally works but is full of edge cases. For example on days with DLS changes the offset is not
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by dexwiz 5y ago
I implemented a date time library for JS a few years ago and took heavy inspiration from java.time. My conclusion is that the time zones are the hardest part of the whole thing. Time zones are defined by political entities that doesn’t give
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by dexwiz 5y ago
You are so far in the trap you cannot imagine a life without it.
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You were unaware.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
If this came from almost any other group it would be an easy write off. But NIST really does have some of the best analytical chemists and physicists around.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Relative humidity is a function of air temperature. 50% humidity at 60F is relatively comfortable, but 50% humidity at 90F is much more uncomfortable. What is really happening is the dew point is closer to your ambient surface skin temp, so
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by dexwiz 5y ago
As a Midwest native, but SF resident, I don't think I could ever move back due to the weather.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
At 42% humidity, I’m guessing they live in a subtropical climate. Florida’s?
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by dexwiz 5y ago
This drives me insane. I try to boot up and play a game, only to find my FPS cut in half due to some background d operation that Windows has determined critical. But not critical enough to tell me beforehand.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
I would imagine some of those videos are the hype and misinformation that the GP is talking about
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if this was an output of a WYSIWYG editor. These are notoriously bad for outputting garbage HTML, especially since multiple edits to the content can leave behind unneeded elements. Browsers are incredibly tolerant
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by dexwiz 5y ago
I think years of <div> only development has destroyed most developer's knowledge of semantic HTML elements. There are over a hundred elements with various meanings, but to a visual user, they all look the same. With a renewed int
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Those states where originally the Midwest territories, which at the time were much more central than they are now.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Competitive salary would help. Bay area pay for engineers makes even basic web dev one of the highest paid professional jobs in the country. But everything I see about EU pay is that its much closer or even below average income for someone
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Synchronizing events beetween calendar systems is hard. iCal may be a serialization format, but it doesn't handle things like: sync event from system A to system B, update in System B, how do we tell System A? For simple events with no
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Most higher end grocery stores in the US now carry locally roasted beans. As long as you check the roast date you will be fine. But to expand on that point, pay attention to origin and roast style. Mass produced coffee is like any other fun
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by dexwiz 5y ago
For every one journalist who thinks they're cleaver for comparing the latest food science product to Soylent Green, there are ten people who don't really care about food and wish meals were simpler. Is this worse than any other pr
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by dexwiz 5y ago
There are already studios like this, such as Uplift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_Games
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by dexwiz 5y ago
> And during that time competition has only increased. Do a simple search on Amazon for “Weighted Blankets” and you will see hundreds of results from many different brands. And the average price point is around $50-$60. This is the only
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Radiation hardening is a big issue. Commercial components could fail due to ionizing radiation, at a high enough rate that it puts the mission at risk. Also just genera design. Robots that can be easily repaired and recharged have different
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by dexwiz 5y ago
In an era where medical skepticism gets you labeled as a loon, I think it’s important to remember cases like this. This article probably only scratches the surface of people who died years after receiving early radiological exams. We know m
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by dexwiz 5y ago
No clock is perfect. Computer clocks and data types assume exactly the same amount of seconds per day. Adding leap seconds to clock code makes it unnecessarily complicated. Leap days have a well behaving algorithm, but leap seconds require
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by dexwiz 5y ago
The Oh No sound that plays with undo has lived rent free in my head for 20years now.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
You are describing Excel.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
It's the programming equivalent to the people who turn their houses into model train worlds. People dabble in it, or make a few toys of their own, but its rare to commit so hard.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
It was a little widget, just needed a bit of state persisted across sessions. The pain point was at page load, so about as far as most business pays attention. Also I do feel like it caused me to go full Wally without realizing it.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
In the last 5 years I have probably written 100k+ lines of production code. My most celebrated feature was about 100 lines to store a single flag in a per user store.
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by dexwiz 5y ago
Most of the rich who had the ability to flee to private islands took the opportunity.

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