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		bitwize on June 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019) Once again, strings are not simple sequences of characters. It's also useless to "index" into a string without specifying what you're indexing for the same reason.

astrea on June 2, 2023 [–]

This is like when you first dive into date-time and slowly unravel the maddening complexity of it all.

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