2019-01-18 TWILPosted on: January 18, 2019
This Week I Learned
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You can create an Object without a prototype in JS using
Object.create(null)
: http://adripofjavascript.com/blog/drips/creating-objects-without-prototypes.html -
It's "bury the lede".
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Vanilla Salt is a thing: https://www.thekitchn.com/what-would-you-do-with-vanilla-143894
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There's thing known as the Year 2038 problem:
As of this evening, we're closer to the Year 2038 problem than we are to Y2K. pic.twitter.com/VhY6eHm1hf
— Tom Scott (@tomscott) January 9, 2019Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia
The Year 2038 problem relates to representing time in many digital systems as the number of seconds passed since 1 January 1970 and storing it as a signed 32-bit binary integer. Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.