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Last I did benchmarking, a vast majority of memory allocations were strings that were typically all dereferenced right away and cleaned up in GEN1 GC. I had contemplated whether string pooling would be useful or not but never got around to it. Would be interesting to see if you could get reduced memory usage and potentially better performance by decreasing pressure on the GC during the GEN1 phase.

(Side note: this was when I was co-maintaining MCPC so was typically with mods installed and they heavily use NBT which I suspect is where a lot of that string allocation was happening.)

You are correct. Both links that he posted are talking about reinfection. So prior infection + vaccine > infection (no vaccine) > vaccine only > no infection/no vaccine.

Yeah. Barnes and Frei didn't read the contract at all. They were just going off the court filings. I don't think they were aware of the additional provision about AWS having the right to terminate right after the 30 day suspension notice provision.

What I find scary and disheartening is that people have to use throwaway accounts to even point this out.

I would suspect that it would give Twitter pause about hosting anything in AWS. But I doubt that is the case because there seems to have been a pretty clear-cut case of collusion between Twitter, Apple, Google and Amazon to silence Trump by any means possible.

That is because he's giving a tiny example of a starter template for a console app.

If you were writing a "production-level" console app with multiple commands, logging, needed DI, input validation, nice looking progress bars, etc. Then this is pretty much what I'd want for a console template tbh.

Spectre.Console looks insanely nice.

None of those sound all that inflammatory. Mostly just political rhetoric.

"We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong." -- In context, he is saying: "Cheer for the Republicans in congress, maybe not so much for the ones who aren't backing me because they aren't showing strength" -- nothing about that seems like it is incitement.

Yet somehow Democrats saying worse things is applauded. Compare that to where actual violence is implied: "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere." - Maxine Waters "Go to the Hill today. Please, get up in the face of some congresspeople." - Cory Booker "We owe the American people to be there for them, for their financial security, respecting the dignity and worth of every person in our country, and if there is some collateral damage for some others who do not share our view, well, so be it, but it shouldn’t be our original purpose." - Nancy Pelosi

Some of my favorites are the little old lady carrying a little American flag, the people walking in a line between the roped off areas and the folks cleaning up after a couple of trash cans got overturned.

Seemed incredibly tame compared to the riots that went on over the summer that had massive amounts of looting and had buildings burnt to the ground.

I think it is more that they see selectively removing content as equivalent to moderation and thus they shouldn't have safe harbor. So maybe they want them to only remove illegal content or something?

"At this stage, there is no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission in the novel #coronavirus (2019-nC0V) outbreak in #Wuhan, #ChinaFlag of China. However, the Chinese authorities continue intensive surveillance and follow-up measures, including environmental investigations." https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1216397232427147264

"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳." https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

"WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available on this event." https://www.who.int/csr/don/12-january-2020-novel-coronaviru...

"The Committee does not recommend any travel or trade restriction based on the current information available.

Countries must inform WHO about travel measures taken, as required by the IHR. Countries are cautioned against actions that promote stigma or discrimination, in line with the principles of Article 3 of the IHR." https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/30-01-2020-statement-on...

There's actually a TON of regulatory compliance involved with tenant screening like this in the US.

Pretty sure that they run afoul of a few provisions in the FCRA. That they claim to "keep reporting fully confidential and DO NOT notify your tenant that you have reported to our system." seems really fishy to me. If a landlord makes an adverse decision based on information in their system, the person being screened has a legal right to view that information and dispute it.

Nobody is going to point out that of the 11 patients, "8 had significant comorbidities associated with poor outcomes (obesity: 2; solid cancer: 3; hematological cancer: 2; HIV-infection: 1)"?

I don't even understand what the point of this study was except as a rebuttal to the prior study. I mean, if people thought the prior study was cherry picking results. I don't even know what I'd call this...

There's _some_ anecdotal evidence that it _may_ work if treated early. Hopefully there are some real studies that are being done on that.

ConEmu is great for handling the terminal limitations on Windows. Is one of the first things I install when setting up a new machine.

https://conemu.github.io/

You can use things like System.GC.TryStartNoGCRegion and GCLatencyMode.SustainedLowLatency to help mitigate the GC pauses though. There is a lot of work that has been going on with the CLR GC code somewhat recently.

Why is a study from a year ago being brought up now?

I'm curious where the 40x slower figure came from. It would really depend on what you are doing inside the method.

If the method is a small amount of "synchronous" code in a tight loop, then yeah, the overhead of the async call is going to outweigh any benefits (a few orders of magnitude slower).

However, if your method is doing something like reading in a 40MB file to do some processing and calls the ReadAsync methods then the difference will be negligible and you get the benefit of better parallel throughput.

It says on the page: "Note: In general, the farther away you are from an Amazon S3 region, the higher the speed improvement you can expect from using Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration. If you see similar speed results with and without the acceleration, your upload bandwidth or a system constraint might be limiting your speed."

So I suspect you might be having that problem in your test.

Every time I run into this or look up something on caniuse[1], I get a (most likely irrational) annoyance that we're comparing things like IE9 which came out in 2011 (predating the official flexbox spec) against modern versions of Chrome and Firefox. I think the way caniuse's interface is set up, IE9 currently lines up next to Firefox 44 and Chrome 49.

My though process goes something like: Is it because Internet Explorer is sucky? Partially. Is it because people/companies aren't updating? Absolutely. Is it because Microsoft made it hard to update? Partially.

I can't help but think that if a lot of people/companies didn't update their iPhones or Linux desktops for 5+ years, we'd be seeing the same issue and blaming Apple for being so shitty.

BTW, looks like all the flexbox bugs in IE11 have been fixed in Edge[2]. I doubt that IE11 will get patched.

[1] http://caniuse.com [2] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs

I would hope "stakeholders" is in reference to Project Stakeholders (i.e. Project Managers) and not stakeholders in the company (which would be absurd).

How in the world did you arrive at that conclusion!?

Ah, I see the entire exchange was published here http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2642410-Email-Chain-H...

Seems quite different than how it was being portrayed. From what I'm seeing, they asked for a white paper, not a research paper and Happer said they could send money to his 501c3 charity which only pays part of his travel expense and would only write what he believed in. Even correcting them on peer review in an academic sense vs a white paper reviewed by his peers...

Am I missing something nefarious here? Because this seems much more like a 'hit piece' on a guy who is testifying before congress.

I'm a bit curious what people's opinions are after reading this http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/08/breaking-greenpeace-co...

Seems like there is some info being left out. Both sources seem to be hiding things, why not publish the entire e-mail exchanges?

I thought the 97% of climate scientists claim (based on Cook et al) was shown to be a really flawed study. In any event, Consensus does not equal science.

I think given the broad definition of "human activity is causing global warming", you'd be hard pressed to find disagreement. If you refine it to "human activity is causing a majority of global warming and that warming is bad" there is a lot less agreement.

No need to apologize, I had the same reaction. Would be nice to have a version of Consolas with ligatures though.

It isn't really a "perceived difficulty" thing and your comments seem a bit flippant as if a depression is all due to the person's irresponsibility. Like depression is just because someone is just "sad" but a balloon will cheer them up and they'll be right as rain.

As was pointed out in the comment right above this. Someone suffering from depression is often completely incapable of "taking responsibility for fixing it themselves".

Imagine the thought process is more like "Why should I even bother to get out of bed today? I'm a horrible person and don't deserve to be happy. I'd rather be dead than live through another day of this horrible existence of a life." -- and then you come along and say "There's nothing wrong with you. You just need to be responsible and live a healthier lifestyle." Hell, that'd just add on to their overwhelming feeling of self-loathing. Good job.

You think they wouldn't JUMP at the chance to be able to stop being in a constant state of mental anguish and live a healthier lifestyle?

From what I recall on their original Kickstarter info, the frequency of the laser light only reacts with something that is in hair and not skin. The "breakthrough" was finding something that worked for blond hairs.

If you look at the United States as a collection of State governments, it makes perfect sense. I'm surprised you are confounded by that logic.

It was actually the most controversial issue during the Constitutional Convention (See "The Great Compromise"). And read up on the Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist debates.

One of the main points is to not give all federal power to the top 9-10 states. Otherwise you end up with the situation where a few large cities are deciding things at the national level and there is no representation for rural areas.

As an extremely over-simplified example, imagine urban voters voting to outlaw tractors because "Tractors emit huge amounts pollution and nobody I know even uses a tractor! Those dirty farmers that I hear use them are dirtying up our air!"

So much this. Price is driven by supply and demand. Not the cost of materials.

I suspect it is from Tony Heller (aka Stephen Goddard). Looks like he has a blog post about it here [1]. (note: Heller is nuts so it is hard to take what he says at face value, but it would appear he has a valid point on all the temperature adjustments going on).

The NOAA does adjust the data (and continues to do so) based on various factors like time of observation (TOBS), urban heat island effect (UHI). As well as infilling data when a station drops or they don't have the coverage.

As for the global temp dropping. That is most likely based on the satellite data showing a slight decrease (the hiatus).

[1] https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/the-majority-...

Yeah. I like it better than the "old" Solitaire, but it can make my tablet crawl (is a Yoga2 Pro core i7). Turning off thermal management in the bios seems to have fixed a lot of the weird speed related issues I got in Win8/10 though.