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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

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 Opti…

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, sumatri…

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…

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 guidan…

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 for…

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 aut…

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 in…

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, …

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 peo…

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, …

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 tha…

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 …

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 f…

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 t…

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 sca…

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!

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…

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 …

That actually shipped to Windows 10: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...

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…

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

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 somethin…

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 …

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 understand…