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ECMAScript 2024, the 15th edition, added facilities for resizing and transferring ArrayBuffers and SharedArrayBuffers; added a new RegExp /v flag for creating RegExps with more adv…

Plenty of contracts have survivorship clauses. In particular, non-disclosure clauses and IP rights are the ones to most commonly survive termination.

In more complex embedded software you are likely to see free lists used to manage pools of preallocated resources (like event structs etc) or pools of fixed sized memory buffers.

No memory allocation/reallocation, preallocated resources managed in e.g. a free list. Also for things like packetized networks, lists are handy for filling as you progress down th…

Sometimes the promo committee can't tell the difference, i.e. was the problem complex to warrant the complex solution. They just see the effort put into solving it.

It's a Long Now thing - emphasizing that they are thinking/talking about problems on millennia timescales. They also did the 10000yr clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_t…

I got a green card while on E-3. Make sure your visa doesn't expire while you are in a no-travel period, as you might not be able to renew it if you have a pending change of status…

Without any claim to the accuracy of the data, there is no incentive to list a salary on the LCA that is higher than required. You can always pay more, never less, so it only limit…

To be fair, the reason for this is to account for clock desync between systems, so it wouldn't be correct to say it is still valid for 30 seconds where it might not be in reality. …

Not to disagree with the cumbersome process - just want to point out that TOTP codes are valid for 30 seconds after the "expire" (60 seconds total). So as long as you are able to r…

At least it opens in default browser, and not hardcoded to Edge like other system stuff.

Another option for hiring outside U.S. without a local entity is to involve a global payroll provider for a reasonable fee (we have used Papaya Global, and Rippling does it now as …

An experiment (with temperature probe) here. Summary: temperature control is non-existent, temperature doesn't hold, and even if it did get to required temperature, one wouldn't ha…

Not at all, but I do think it peculiar to be subject to what from my perspective is a random set of jurisdictions. Of course I understand why this is the case, but out of a handful…

> I haven't seen any servers with peculiar rules. I have seen two just today, listed explicitly in the rules of distinct servers, without particularly looking: • No content that's …

Currently some number of versions are also on humble bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/software

The dive reflex thing is fantastic. I find that it works even with warm water for me - in the shower, just inhale, hold your breath and let water run directly over your face. A wav…

By tracking all devices, noting when one address disappears and a new one appears, and correlating it with the perceived signal strength to reasonably guess whether this is the sam…

Any single SSS share does not disclose any additional information about the private key (i.e. it is not like splitting the key itself into parts).

Most phone snatchers aren't after the information on the phone. The point is not that this would not be a targeted attack (it would be), but that it might not require a particular …

There is a reasonable chance that the print is available on the very device it is needed to unlock (the phone screen, for example), perhaps enough for a thief who snatches your pho…

Is there a reasonable explanation why the new Pay app doesn't work with custom domain / business accounts? I am guessing it isn't resourcing. The old one did; luckily I can still u…

This isn't the punitive part - that's what fines are for. I see this particular requirement more as a corrective action - to actually give back to users the choice that Google took…

It is often more precise, not necessarily more accurate. People often don't distinguish between the two.

I haven't run into that use of -0000, that's insane. I suspect a side-effect of libraries lacking support for the full range of ISO8601 (for example, refusing to parse a value with…