When I was shown BioPerl I was tempted to write a better, C++ version, but was overwhelmed by other university stuff and let it go.

Anything that’s not boilerplate I still code it

Books/repositories anything practical

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More than a newsletter what it really takes to stop that behavior is to shutdown access to the device for a couple of weeks. But that takes a lot of willpower because of the addiction.

Can you recommend good resources? Books work best for me but I’m open to anything. The more practical the better.

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My experience is that English in Japan isn’t really spoken outside of big tech firms and even there the quality isn’t great.

I have tried organizing an event on the same topic in Japanese and in English, almost no one showed up in English but it was full in Japanese.

They have their own alternatives to some services and stack overflow, qiita.

The thing is that they don’t really need to speak English and for the cases they need English they bite a foreigner.

That said this will only speed up electric vehicles but with these prices I don’t see how many people are gonna afford them.

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Unlike the day of the week and the date, %s and %z are independent, so I don't see the problem. > Here, independent means orthogonal, so changing one doesn't change the other.

It doesn't mean there is a problem, it just means they are different. For example, it is possible to write a date in UTC and then change it to local time. But this time it's only %s.

Suppose I am in Japan and dealing with UTC time. Let's say I'm in Japan and I'm dealing with UTC time. The given time is in UTC, but I'll refer to it as +09:00.

2001-02-03T04:05:06 UTC (+0900)

Since this is not common DateTime.parse('2001-02-03T04:05:06').new_offset('+0900') This is not common, so the description would be something like

Now, this kind of description is not currently in ruby, but I feel that what is required for the '%s %z' thing is something different from what we have been dealing with, which from my point of view includes this kind of thing.

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Perhaps if you could elaborate a bit more on what a date is or something like that, it might make it more understandable.

When I say date, I am including such time. I think of this date as a kind of name assigned on a time axis based on certain rules. In space, it is like a milestone. There are actually more imperfect dates, which are also dates. Sometimes they can be identified by context and other information, and sometimes they can't.

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If you think the time difference has special significance, you can describe it in local time. > > The question is which local time, not the local time set by the OS, but an artificial local time with a > fixed difference from UTC. > > I understand that you are talking about being able to record the given time difference as is. > I understand that you are saying that the given time difference can be recorded as it is.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Since %s seems incomplete to begin with, I don't know why you are so hung up on it.

If we replace %s with space, we can't place milestones with it, it just shows the distance, and we can't define the distance, can we?

Also, just for the record, I would like to confirm that what Mr. Tanaka is referring to as fixed time difference is not universal.

The given self-evident local time is also useful, and the time zone = time zone information, not time difference. It contains more information than just time difference.

Isn't it important to have the actual time system and format we are referring to, such as daylight saving time? In that sense as well, I feel uncomfortable with the trend of %s bias.

With time I got assigned stuff that wasn’t challenging, and that hit me hard. And also locked in legacy code or big-Corp only way of doing things.

But you have to remember that you have a very good job. Most people would like to work there someday, and it opens many doors.

It’s yours to decide, but I would bet in an internal transfer. If nothing is interesting, starting exploring other options. But big Corp is always like this. The only difference is if you are lucky with your manager and/or project

In the sense that at the moment I don’t pay for Github and my projects remain there hosted for free.

What would happen in sr.ht jf for whatever event I stopped paying for the service?

My parents cant even use Whatsapp properly let alone some jabberlike thing

I hear a lot of noise about rust but I still didn’t find motivation to commit to learn it