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I’ve found this article lacking. Like some other articles in this space, it introduces isolation levels through the lens of the phenomena described in the SQL standard, but I find …

Here: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

> (...) separate from the package deliveries for which UPS is known, is primarily a business-to-business enterprise hauling large industrial cargo in big trucks.

> Is it just me or is the screen not vertically centered on this device? It's a 3D render. The actual display seems to be more or less centered[0]. > Also the wake up button is on …

> There has been no drop in productivity. As in, your output is the same as with a 5 day work week? So essentially a 20% pay cut per unit of work performed?

This specific problem was already dealt with during the introduction of arrow functions[1]. It makes sense to keep the same parsing semantics. [1]: https://www.ecma-international.o…

Java got them in the most recent version 15: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/378

Wouldn't "Alchemists" fit even better?

> they have yearly CPU instruction limits This sounded too ridiculous to me, so I started digging. Lo and behold, [1]. Appendix 8, sections 2 and 3. The entire thing is a fun read,…

Each company C_n would own 51% of the company C_{n-1} (with C_1 being the actual company). At every point each company owns a sizable chunk of equity.

Why would the rice cooker need to be programmed for it, though? For any given quantity of rice, the two variables during cooking is the amount of water and the power of the heating…

> With the exception of Singapore (which put an Australian in charge of its response) Both Lawrence Wong and Gan Kim Yong are Singaporeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_p…

What is the grammar rule? I've always assumed that you use "an" whenever a noun starts with a vowel sound, which "Nvidia" does ("n" being pronounced as "en"), thus making "an Nvidi…

The moment they start doing this, other countries will restart their mines and the Chinese leverage (and profits) will evaporate. Rare earth minerals aren't that rare.

> You can ignore the error case on a result / the None case on an option as easily as you ignore the `err` today. The point of a result type is that you _cannot_ ignore the None ca…

The vocabulary from that language spec is not even followed consistently in the language's own standard library. The `strings.Compare`[1] function is used to establish ordering, in…

The linked LWN article[1] mentions context-sensitive keywords, ie. a way to treat certain words as language keywords only in specific contexts. For example, a new match statement t…

> Would the Go runtime lock you to that specific thread and block it or sleep that goroutine and move it to another thread when its no longer sleeping? By default, the Go runtime d…

An exception that proves the rule.

This code block doesn't actually work the way the Kotlin one does. Async functions are mere pull-based state machines, so both `one` and `two` will compute serially, without concur…

> Is there a Swiss version of what they consider cheap fast-food, and is that place still $20 for a basic meal? Döner joints. They are about ~15 CHF for a meal including a drink.

Bandwidth is between 9x and 5x more expensive compared to B2, though.

Note that 150k is just the salary. I don’t know about Japanese compensation structure, but you can easily get >200k including bonus + equity at FAANG in a junior position.