I made a proof-of-concept LLVM-to-Excel-spreadsheet compiler. Really.

(If you don’t know what all those words mean, this probably won’t interest you.)

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Protobuf is a binary (non-textual) encoding format invented by Google. It has some nice properties and some less nice properties. But one that’s a little frustrating is that it’s almost a streamable format—that is, one where you can process data as it comes in, rather than waiting until you’ve read all of it.

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• offset applied to UTC to get to local time
• that depends on your position {on Earth, in orbit around the sun}
• approximating a natural difference in available sunlight
• rules have changed in the past and probably will in the future
• for political reasons

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