This is a footgun! ES6 should have specified that it either fulfills, rejects, or just throws some sort of synchronous error. Unfortunately, because of precedence in Promise libraries predating ES6 Promise, they had to leave this gotcha in there, […]

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There are moments when he seems to be writing something on the order of Jorge Luis Borges's Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius—an amazing fragment about the alternate universe where every book contains its counterbook, where things become duplicated and also tend to become effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten.

In Singapore, there is no choice being one of the world’s twenty smallest countries. Boh pien ah.