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qes··on Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier?
You look at death counts overall and for other reasons. The spikes will show up somewhere, if they exist.
qes··on Chloroquine on Google Trends
> You can overdose on it if you take more than 1.7 grams. The recommended dose is 400mg. For reference, you can overdose on tylenol and die if you take 4 times the recommended dosage.

Now tell us what the half life of chloroquine is compared to acetaminophen..

qes··on Chloroquine on Google Trends
> I really don't get where this comes from

It's hepatoxic and stays in your system for months. I believe side effects can include permanent blindness and psychosis.

qes··on Chloroquine on Google Trends
> The FDA has moved mountains... be put in use IMMEDIATELY

The FDA didn't really have to do anything. Doctors could prescribe it for off-label use already.

qes··on CSS Zen Garden
> It was hard, but not impossible

Oh great let me get right on that. Wait, no, I have far more important things to do with my time.

qes··on Chloroquine, past and present
I literally just googled it. Read around for people's experiences ordering. Picked one to try. Same way you'd find info about anything you're looking to buy on the internet. They delivered and the meds were clearly effective, been using the same place for a decade now. I've also tried a couple others over the years when looking for something my main site didn't carry. Never been burned.
qes··on Chloroquine, past and present
> Supply is not an issue

Well, I was going to order some, been researching for a couple days before buying, and in that time all stock on my known pharmacy sites is now gone.

qes··on The state of the restaurant industry
Minnesota too
qes··on President Trump says that he’s waiving interest on federal student loans
> It's a LOT better than nothing.

That's quite a stretch.

People won't see a realized benefit for years, even decades. And with this being a temporary measure, 3-6 months of no interest doesn't amount to very much - maybe a few thousand for people with somewhat larger loan amounts that are also all federal.

qes··on MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small
> resulted in a lot less allocations too

Especially if you use the MessagePack-CSharp library. That dude knows his high-perf .Net.

qes··on Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
> Think Bitcoin mining farm, not Backblaze datacenter. Any corners that can be cut will be.

And yet Sia is about half the cost of Backblaze (i.e. not much savings).

Hard to imagine situations where this is a good trade-off.

qes··on Reddit has become a guide to personal finance
> I'm not making very much money from my "high-interest savings account". Maybe a grand or two over decades

All that says is that you barely have any balance in the account. Maybe a couple grand.

qes··on Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb
> The heat seems to kill these things over time.

I think it's more about how well balanced all of the individual LED's in the bulb are. Unbalanced circuits have more current flowing through some paths than others and leads to premature failure of individual elements and it's usually rapidly downhill from there for the rest of the bulb.

qes··on DisplayPort and 4K
There's several, just search. $300 is about the cheapest you'll find a 32" 4k though, don't expect much and it'll certainly be a TN panel with a slower refresh.
qes··on How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)
> .NET has never had "DLL Hell"

I take it you've never worked on a .Net solution with projects targeting both full framework and Core framework.

Core v1.x stuff was a nightmare - haven't had so many issues with versioning in 20 years. Core v2.0 was still pretty bad but each v2 point release made decent strides - and specific packages would get updated out of band at times to fix issues.

But to say .Net has never had DLL Hell is just wrong. Even pre-Core you could run into difficult situations with conflicting downstream dependencies of directly used packages.

qes··on Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA
Yes. I could publish the source code of, say, my access control system, along with instructions on how it could be bypassed, but yet if you use those instructions to bypass it, that is a violation of the DMCA.
qes··on Obesity Trends in the U.S.
ADD medication is usually amphetamine, which has a potent hunger suppression effect.
qes··on Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent
> AFAIK there aren't really any good solutions to prevent this problem- For complex game-theoretic reasons, simply changing the mining algorithm to something different doesn't really offer much protection. (Some folks believe if these smaller currencies were to move to "proof of stake" it could help solve this problem, but this is an extremely contentious topic.)

Decred's mixed PoW/PoS would be extremely expensive to 51% attack, and would require a large amount of funds to be locked up in voting tickets for random amounts of time ranging from a few days to several months - so if you successfully attacked it, you'd presumably reduce the value of Decred and the many millions of dollars worth of Decred you had frozen in tickets.

qes··on SQLite Is Serverless
> does not operate on a client-server architecture

That was never a common usage of the term serverless.

qes··on Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke's thought on no-code, low-code movement
Are we calling CMS's low/no code now? Call me back when you can implement reasonably complex, bespoke behavior with low/no code. Yet another shopping cart checkout flow hardly counts.
qes··on .NET Core, .NET 5; the Exodus of .NET Framework?
> have one dependency that hasn't been updated to support Core and you can't upgrade and then you can't use anything new.

That's not true. Friction in tooling and project description files does not really equate to instability for production use - "worth it" is quite subjective and also not equatable to stable. As you said, Core v2 was already out 2 years ago, and plenty of people were using Core v1.X in production on significant sites without much trouble.

qes··on Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into
I have an Optane 900P PCIe 3.0 4x 280 GB and a Samsung 870 Evo Plus 1TB in the same system.

The Optane benches 3x faster on low queue depth 4k random reads. 4k writes are comparable. The Evo Plus beats the Optane by under 10% on deep queue 4k reads and writes and like 15-20% on sequential reads and writes.

qes··on Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into
Yep. I have an Optane PCIe 3.0 4x add in card - 280GB drive - in an AMD TRX40 rig.

I don't imagine PCIe 4.0 will make much difference as a single drive can't make use of the extra bandwidth anyway - but I'm curious to see if there are improvements to the 3D XPoint memory. Kinda bummed I literally just bought mine.

qes··on U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
Or maybe we should just disentangle health care from employment..
qes··on My Business Card Runs Linux
> Embedded Software Engineer salary: $74,758

> Individuals Reporting: 97

> Full Stack Engineer salary: $93,598

> Individuals Reporting: 138

I think you're going to need more than 100 or so people's self-reported salaries before you can reasonably claim what pay is like across the professions or in comparison to each other.

qes··on The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help
Would probably cut their image hosting costs like 70%, maybe more even.
qes··on Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
> Fired after 3 months.

Which means you probably went 6 months or more without a role properly filled.

On a small team that's a huge dent. For half a year.

Not to mention the time spent in the hiring process itself, which you now get to repeat.

qes··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
I see someone mentioned that further down in this thread, but shutdown and reboots are similarly quick for all of my pc's. Even my 12 year old laptop (with SSD) boots Windows 10 in _well_ under a minute, and shuts down and reboots much faster.

I also have hibernation disabled, and I've never noticed some obviously large file that might be a hibernation state on my drives (even e.g. removing a drive after a shut down so there was no restart where it could've been deleted).

qes··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
I just put a Ryzen 5 3400G in a B450 board and it hits the login screen from cold start in like 3 seconds (and no there's not still a bunch of stuff churning in the background - it's all but done loading at that point).
qes··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
> Most machines I work with these days take minutes to get rolling.

Minutes? That sounds exaggerated.

How powerful was your Atari ST compared to other machines at the time versus the machines you work with these days compared to other machines available?

Because I'm not even on a particularly new machine and from a powered off state I'm logged into Windows and starting applications within 5 seconds. And for example that's at 7680x2880 resolution, not 640x400.

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