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Hi. I definitely took some liberties with terms here. For example, I said "I/O driver" instead of, say UART driver because I didn't want to get overly specific on the historical pa…

Actually standard SQL does specify a MERGE command (which lets you implement an upsert) and it's implemented in Postgres

I got my job through TripleByte. I consider it my dream job. Honestly, I loved the experience with TripleByte. I got a bunch of interviews to happen at the same time. Having them a…

Am I the only one who cares about the 4a-5G's bottom bezel? It is thicker so the bezel isn't symmetrical making it an eyesore. I would pay a bit more to have a symmetrical bezel.

A friend of mine has lingering short-term memory loss months after recovering from covid19. She didn't suffer symptoms too bad during the illness. She didn't go to the hospital.

I do agree that incentives are a problem. However, I also see this as a sign that small-molecule antibiotics may not be the most efficient approach for antibiotics in the future. D…

They probably spent well over $1bil on their autonomous driving research (which didn't pan out).

Whenever the topic of generics comes up, especially in Go, things seem to devolve into a ragefest about inheritance and OOP. Why? I don't want the mess of inheritance any more than…

Yes, he has conflated generics with inheritance/hierarchies. You can have generics without the mess that is inheritance.

Not if it's returned by an async function. In JS, async functions automatically await promises that are returned.

I'm running both on a Pi 2 (without a heat sink).

If you don't look at the study, how will you know if they accounted for that or not? There are techniques available to control for correlations like that.

I miss the News Feed back when it showed mostly information about my friends' lives. At some point I feel like their algorithms started showing me more links to clickbait and other…

I'm a (partly) Asian American on the east coast and the weather is exactly why I wear them. It keeps my face warm and moist.

Looks like they improved a ton with the v4.0 release. I used this just a few months ago and it was painful. Undocumented components, lack of basic customization, some bugs. Seems l…