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  2. Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia

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    The software was designed with a kludge to handle a database request that should "never" time out. Rather than specifically handling this special case, the initial design simply specified an arbitrary time-out date in the future with a default configuration specifying that requests should time out after a maximum of one billion seconds. However ...

  3. Futures and promises - Wikipedia

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    The terms future, promise, delay, and deferred are often used interchangeably, although some differences in usage between future and promise are treated below. Specifically, when usage is distinguished, a future is a read-only placeholder view of a variable, while a promise is a writable, single assignment container which sets the value of the ...

  4. Timeout (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Network timeout preventing a Web browser from loading a page. In telecommunications and related engineering (including computer networking and programming), the term timeout or time-out has several meanings, including: A network parameter related to an enforced event designed to occur at the conclusion of a predetermined elapsed time.

  5. The students who graduated with Michael Brown had only hope and promise ahead of them. And a year after Brown's tragic death, somehow they still do. Here are their stories.

  6. Think you can make a halfcourt shot in front of the fans at ...

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    Halfcourt shooting contests have a long history at high school, college and professional basketball games. The year Chicago Bulls fan Don Calhoun swished a shot of about 80 feet, from the opposite ...

  7. Despite tariff disputes, Mexico, Canada have been key to US ...

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    U.S. car manufacturers have depended on labor from Mexico and Canada for more than a century.

  8. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and other media partners has found.

  9. US farmers turn to Airbnb, corn mazes to outlast agricultural ...

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    A dead-end dirt road cutting through rural Wisconsin leads to a pasture dotted with shaggy-coated Highland cattle, fluffy Icelandic sheep and a vintage Airstream trailer that farmer Brit Thompson ...