Schrodinger's big cat

theoldfool wrote:

any recommendations?

A comfortable chair.

That was a joke :)

Is that according to you? Or according to people familiar with the exchanges?

Mine gave me fairly bad flu symptoms the evening I got it, lasting until about 3pm the following day.

embar.k.adero wrote:

Members with few points are judged as inferior

Not at all, it's just that people with more points are better :D CP does a good job of hiding away rep points, better than most forums, and I think it lets people who ask questions assimilate the answers on their merits and not based on some number\column\symbol next to the users name. I see on other forums with prominent "rep" systems that people with lower reps are literally ignored and people only want to ask questions of those with higher reps, even if those people generally give bad advice, they just give it more often.

It has lots of storage options, wouldn't surprise me if there's a file-based one or you could just use the memory based one if you weren't too bothered about persistence.

Hangfire is an alternative you might want to look at.

It's not really LINQ's fault, it's the chaining of multiple commands into a single statement and also a little of your own inexperience; given that error message many would know exactly where to look.

Remove everything then put things back a bit at a time. When it stops working the last thing you added is responsible.

rnbergren wrote:

So Chrome worked its way to the top and now is the one that has the biggest target on its back. That is all articles like this are saying. Hey I want to take pot shots at the most used/biggest thing out there.

Exactly. It happened to IE, it happened to Firefox, now it's happening to Chrome. Welcome to the internet. I'm old enough to remember when Firefox came out and people talked about it like it cured cancer. "Gah, IE is RUBBISH, use Firefox", that's all you read. Now it's "Gah, Firefox is RUBBISH, use Chrome" and so on. It also makes me laugh when I see these kids rubbish webforms, MVC is great, now MVC is rubbish and the next thing is great. I always tell them that in a few years time what they think is great now they will think it's rubbish. I guess one thing experience teaches you is that things don't "become rubbish", it's just that other things improve. Meh.

In the UK criminal records are stored in Excel.

I tried doing some coding searches on Bing cos I kinda assumed Microsoft would skew the results toward their own sites and just understand the domain better in general, but the results still weren't as good as google's :\

It's pointless to waste the manpower identifying and tracking these people down. Remember when BLM were looting stores and burning whole neighbourhoods to the ground, storming police stations and setting them on fire with people still inside? When they were caught they were simply let free right away to continue peacefully protesting the very next night.

The average age of people who die "from" covid-1984 is the same as the average age people die anyway. There is no statistical significance of covid over any other cause of death in the elderly.

Rich Leyshon wrote:

Being killed by a disease is also noticeably incompatible with human life.

A disease that has killed less than 400 (otherwise) healthy people under the age of 60 in a country with a population of 66,000,000. I'll take my chances :thumbsup:

5teveH wrote:

And, BTW, lock-down in March did stop the spread,

So why is it still here? The November lockdown was so we wouldn't be locked down over Christmas and after November the lockdowns continued ever more harshly not just for Christmas but the whole of December and now with literally no end in sight. Who knows, keep locking us down, maybe one of them will work?

5teveH wrote:

But I'm sure the government would be more than happy to hear from anyone who can suggest a better option.....

Are you sure? Really? When was the last time you heard the phrase "herd immunity"? The thing that has got humans through things way worse than something with a 99% survival rate.

5teveH wrote:

the measures currently in place aren't working - because people are not sticking to the rules

Or maybe they're not working because they just don't work and\or are simply not compatible with human life? Maybe repeatedly doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is simply a sign of madness?

5teveH wrote:

with an 8pm curfew

Because viri don't come out until after 8pm. Keep listening to that science :thumbsup: :)

Cp-Coder wrote:

The proper syntax in Java is: if ( stringA.equals(stringB)) { }

You can do that in c# too.