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by sveiss 2y ago
Influenza is the best-known example, but others with the same segmented genome structure can also do it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment
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by sveiss 2y ago
The parser supports the type hint syntax, and the standard library provides various type hint related objects. So you can do things like “from typing import Optional” to bring Optional into scope, and then annotate a function with -> Opt
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by sveiss 2y ago
Emphasis on the "something like": there are several different drugs in this class (triptans), and it might take a couple of tries to get one that works for you. Personally, sumatriptan doesn't work reliably, rizatriptan makes
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by sveiss 2y ago
Not really. Immigrant visa issuance is discretionary and unreviewable, as this judgment has just confirmed. Adjustment of status, which is the process to obtain permanent residency within the US, is also discretionary for family-based appli
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by sveiss 2y ago
If they’re trying to follow the rules, then they can’t just fill out a 1099-MISC. A babysitter one of the examples specifically called out as a household employee in the IRS guidance[1], so if you’re doing it right you should be running pay
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by sveiss 3y ago
Less fraud, not zero fraud. Even if your bank sends the cheque for collection and waits for the payor bank to confirm there’s funds there. The cheque could have been stolen and forged, or a legitimate cheque could have been altered. There’s
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by sveiss 3y ago
SFO’s involvement is that they own or lease the roads and parking lots where the pickups happen, and so have the right to set conditions on their use. Parking enforcement isn’t automatic at parking lots without barriers either, but that doe
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by sveiss 3y ago
CLEAR is more than ten times as expensive as PreCheck: $189/year vs $15.60/year. That's likely enough to keep the queues low. PreCheck (or rather Global Entry at $20/year, which includes PreCheck plus immigration/cu
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by sveiss 3y ago
PreCheck reduces the intensity of the actual screening: walk-through metal detector instead of millimeter wave scanners, can leave your shoes on, keep liquids/laptops/etc in bags, and at airports with a mix of 2D X-ray and 3D CT s
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by sveiss 3y ago
The disc acts as a licence key. The game itself doesn't get read from the disc after installation--that would be far too slow. The disc versions of the consoles are popular for people who like to buy games second hand and/or trade
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by sveiss 3y ago
You can visit home, but you might end up stuck there. Leaving the US as a non-immigrant always carries a small amount of risk: CBP can always decide to refuse your next admission, even with a visa. After the recent spate of tech layoffs som
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by sveiss 3y ago
Someone who has money as the primary criterion for where they work. The implication being that they're likely to jump ship as soon as anyone else makes them a better offer (and that they'll be at least semi-actively looking for th
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by sveiss 3y ago
This is common for medium or larger companies. Instead of paying monthly insurance premiums, the company directly funds the claim payments as they come in. They outsource the work of adjudicating claims, negotiating with providers/faci
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by sveiss 4y ago
Yes, they operate the Aviation Safety Reporting System[1] in the US. It’s intentionally kept separate from the FAA, which has the enforcement role, to encourage reporters to come forward. The second ‘A’ in NASA is ‘Aeronautics’, after all,
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by sveiss 4y ago
I was Dotcher on CoD and ingame, but I don’t think we ever spoke. I didn’t post on the forums much at all, and as a teenager on the wrong side of the world the fan gatherings and the like were a tad inaccessible. I did a bunch of writing, n
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by sveiss 4y ago
My marriage and a good chunk of my career trajectory can both be traced directly back to having "grown up" playing AC and writing/coding for Crossroads of Dereth. It's a little scary to think how different my life would
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by sveiss 4y ago
My favourite part of this story is that Sandra's handle on the fansites at the time was "srand". A highly appropriate coincidence, given the nature of the bug!
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by sveiss 4y ago
If you weren’t aware, the deadline for opting in to COBRA has been significantly extended during the Covid public health emergency declaration. You get an extra year to elect COBRA beyond the normal 60 days, and it’s retroactive to when you
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by sveiss 4y ago
Right, and last November it hit general availability. You don’t need to be running an Insiders build of Windows 10 any more. That was the announcement I linked. It shipped via the Microsoft Store, so you have to specifically install it, but
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by sveiss 4y ago
That actually shipped to Windows 10: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...
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by sveiss 4y ago
PreCheck itself bought from TSA is only available to citizens/nationals/LPRs, but nonresident citizens of a handful of other countries can get Global Entry from CBP, which includes PreCheck benefits as well as expedited immigratio
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by sveiss 4y ago
Uncommitted Logic Array. It was a semi-custom chip type, where the silicon layer was standardised but the metal layers varied by customer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_array
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by sveiss 4y ago
Hah, thank you, that explains a mystery! I had a motherboard (an ASUS ROG Strix B550-E) that would frequently freeze when I stood up from my chair. I always figured it was something to do with static electricity discharging when I stood up,
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by sveiss 4y ago
That’s for HTTP/1.1, where WebSockets are really a completely different protocol which “hijacks” the underlying TCP or TCP+TLS stream from HTTP via the Upgrade request. HTTP/2 has its own concept of streams, so WebSockets can run
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by sveiss 4y ago
Do you have an example of a cable modem that blocks remote setting updates? Both remote configuration and remote software updates are MUSTs in the DOCSIS spec[1], and my understanding is that the information in the configuration file is tec
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by sveiss 4y ago
Yeah, if it’s just a modem with a separate router that’s fine, but I think you can get an entry level all in one for around $100 now? I see at least one on Amazon, but it’s hard to tell if it’s refurbished, which most at that price point ar
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by sveiss 4y ago
If you’re with Comcast, then it’s very likely they do have access to the modem, even if you own it. A cable modem is somewhat “trusted” from the perspective of the network: cable is physically a shared medium, and a malfunctioning or malici
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by sveiss 4y ago
Yes. You’re ticked off a list, so that you can’t vote twice, and that helps spot anyone who does attempt to impersonate another voter. It’s not 100% foolproof, but it turns out voter fraud by impersonation is very rare, so it’s good enough.
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by sveiss 4y ago
If you do this, be prepared for the company to call your bluff. Many places have a policy that invoking legal is a one way street, and once you’ve threatened to sue they will give you the contact details for legal and then refuse to speak t
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by sveiss 4y ago
It looks like the approach this takes is to use instrumentation to record which files in the container are used at runtime when run under a test harness, and then build a new image omitting any files/packages that weren't used dur

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