@l4m2 reverse also doesn't like combining diacritics for example but Unicode can't feasibly make precomposed versions of everything that could exist

@emanresuA Current encoding also only support 676 possible flags

There's a clear button in the top right that the CSS was hiding for me

@emanresuA I suppose this also means they can avoid sensitive political questions around partially-recognized states

@mousetail also it's got those little serifs on both sides in my font

Replace $KID_NAME with the name of the other 5th/6th grade kid this one was talking too

Wasn't aware that's what the hip youth say today :p

Why do we always say crossing the road?

Why do we never say ticking the road, or circling the road?

@l4m2 Unicode announced they won't be adding any more flags

Unicode is going MySQL's track

utf8mb3 & utf8mb4

y'all ever just go to the doctor for the first time in 6 years and find out you're 5'9" when you thought you were 5'11" but just think that's funny that you misremembered then check your patient portal 3 months later for other reasons and find out that when you were measured 6 years ago you actually were 5'11"

can't say i relate, but rip :p

:p

mostly bc i don't think i've gone 6 years without going to a doctor at any point in my life

i am disappointed the vitals chart only has a total of 3 entries because i swear i remember seeing the pediatrician regularly back when i was that young

@UnrelatedString I have no idea what my height is

but hey at least i apparently also lost 41 pounds in the last 6 years

My pasport says 1.75 but that was a total guess

wacky

also my portal otherwise claims i have no medical records? but it also has some really old data on my medication list--some otc asthma inhalers that i never needed and a prescription skin cream of some sort that i did need for something but never used

@UnrelatedString nice (assuming this is a desired outcome for you)

yeah 😎

in that case nice that's great :3

thanks

funnily enough i do feel thinner now than i did 3 months ago at the check-up but 3 months ago i felt about as fat as i ever did

i think maybe i'm just not seeing much change in belly fat but that's the main thing i look at

like i don't think i'm any thinner there still

but what i have noticed is how much i've lost in my thighs and under my arms

@UnrelatedString No because I don’t use barbaric units like feet and inches

true

Or pounds for weight… at least you don’t use stones like the brits

i'm canadian so i know my height in meters and my weight in pounds

@hyper-neutrino …but why

I don’t even know what my weight is in pounds, I have no point of reference

@noodleperson What type script type system answer are you most proud of?

good question idk tbh i am just more familiar with pounds for some reason

Apparently I’m 143 pounds

i do know my height in imperial too, but i'd need to convert my weight to know it in kilograms

if i pull the chart up again it just lists the measurements in both

and i think they might even just store the height measurement in cm then round that to a whole number of inches

and the same for weight

like there's a tenths place to the cm and a thousandths place to the kg but the height is just integer inches and the weight is just integer pounds and integer ounces

(what the fuck even is an ounce)

but yeah in metric the weights may 2018 and march 2024 are 106.232 kg 87.816 kg and the heights are 180.3 cm 175.3 cm

@Fatalize ...wait do they still actually do that

@UnrelatedString I think so yeah

wow

@hyper-neutrino come to think of it i'm not too surprised a mixed system is used in practice in canada but i am a bit surprised it's not the other way around

like to me kg feel more conceptually interchangeable with pounds than m/cm do with ft/in

so if everything is officially all in metric i'd expect ft/in to be the popular holdout of imperial

Murder by words 💀

@Fatalize it's easy really, 16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone, 8 stone in a cwt, 20 cwt in a ton

(which is why when inventing the money in Harry Potter, Rowling used 29 Knuts in a Sickle and 17 Sickles in a Galleon just to show how ridiculous that all was)

I'm pretty sure the AI company I do some work for has some questionable data collection practices because for some reason I now have a spreadsheet containing data on all 17 thousand car accidents which have occurred in a particular city in recent history

@l4m2 canada reversing into ascension island is somehow strangely appropriate

@mousetail good question, not sure. Maybe this one? Or for my most underrated definitely this lol

tbh a lot of my TS types answers are fairly trivial, I used to always get scared off by harder challenges and these days I've had less interest in TS types golfing

I intend to do a GolfScript interpreter in TS types for this challenge but I haven't worked on that project in a long time

@noodleperson TS types is really hard to golf in, which is why I only have two answers

Today in "graphs that changed my life":

very insightful

@RydwolfPrograms Related

@UnrelatedString I have heard that your height can fluctuate by up to a few inches throughout the day (something about your spine slowly compressing the longer you stay vertical and then decompressing when you get horizontal again), so maybe that has something to do with it.

oh yeah that

Wait wat

did i just find a wild @RydwolfPrograms

I beat you to it by almost 2 years :p

Lol

TypeScript types doesn't like me, my Promise<boolean> keeps turning into Type 'Promise<false> | Promise<true> which isn't assignment compatible

@emanresuA I've used TS types so much I've gotten to a point where it's not that hard to do most things, might not take me more than twice as long as in regular TypeScript, just certain aspects make everything so painful like everything being pure stateless functions but not having higher-order functions and having to do pattern matching to write if statements and loops and just everything about control flow is hell

and that each function can only have one expression, and you can't do local bindings except with <code> extends infer <name> ? <use name in the code> : never