I was this close to starting to try and write my own macOS clock widget to display UTC under my regular clock, since I often forget the math to calculate UTC from whatever time zone I'm in (and whatever daylight savings offset there might be!).
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![Picture of log lines with:
INFO/MainProcess] mingle: searching for neighbors
INFO/MainProcess] mingle: all alone](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xxjp63eq5el5s2xbgvsqvryt/bafkreib4bv2rj2dkt6ekjxfinksl74svg23qa5kx5essmwng2cjyjceqjm)
![def cap_str_to_mln_float(cap: str) -> float:
"""Parse capital string (e.g., '$1.2B', '750M') to millions as float."""
if not (cap := cap.strip().lstrip("$")) or cap.lower() == "n/a":
return 0.0
try:
if cap[-1] in "MmBb":
return float(cap[:-1]) * (1000.0 if cap[-1] in "Bb" else 1.0)
return float(cap)
except (ValueError, IndexError):
return 0.0](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xxjp63eq5el5s2xbgvsqvryt/bafkreiakrn74d5zo3rrc7chs6uzg6nftnxv3xpmuixxehicfdze7upiq4e)
![hyperfine --warmup 1 "pre-commit run --all-files" "prek run --all-files"
Benchmark 1: pre-commit run --all-files
Time (mean ± σ): 1.278 s ± 0.011 s [User: 2.360 s, System: 0.733 s]
Range (min … max): 1.268 s … 1.307 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: prek run --all-files
Time (mean ± σ): 680.7 ms ± 2.7 ms [User: 1397.2 ms, System: 342.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 676.3 ms … 683.9 ms 10 runs
Summary
prek run --all-files ran
1.88 ± 0.02 times faster than pre-commit run --all-files](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xxjp63eq5el5s2xbgvsqvryt/bafkreihkm63gk5kzvtrcby6uj2ypqbdv7aeunj4rlq7pokdwerhwmwsage)
