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Another great option in Java is jOOQ, which lets you write type-safe and potentially composable queries such as:

  context
    .update(User.USER)
    .set(User.USER.NAME, userName)
    .where(User.USER.ID.eq(userId))
    .execute()

Is it really any additive value? News companies and consumption certainly existed before social media.

Spring (and particularly Spring Boot) requires no XML for configuration — everything can be done with annotations and plain Java (or Kotlin).

IMO the resolution is there so long as you have one of the latest headsets and are viewing a VR180 8K feed (my reference is the Quest 2). Live casting of an 8K feed probably is the limiting factor here (not the headset hardware).

Regarding (d), if you have a Quest / Quest 2, there is no need to merely imagine; this is how WiFi + Virtual Desktop works now for PCVR connectivity, and it’s excellent. (Not sure if it tops out at a gigabit but it’s much more than enough for a great experience at 4K of the Quest 2.)

Seems that the user is worse off than the situation where the HFT had to play by everyone else's rules and list publicly at $9.95 though.

It can also be argued that Apple’s approach is a bit user-hostile. If someone wants their display at a 50% brightness ceiling (e.g. working in a darker room) it would be jarring to see HDR content overriding that, especially as such content becomes more prevalent.

Can someone explain what if any differentiators or advantages AirBnB has over its actual or potential competitors? What's their moat?

I recently rented a house for a weekend which was listed on both AirBnB and VRBO. I looked at both listings to get a more thorough feel for reviews etc. After a few days of contemplating whether to select this particular property, I ended up booking it on VRBO and I don't think there was even a reason why I picked one site over the other. If a butterfly had flapped its wings in China I'd have picked AirBnB.

I don't recall the user experience being much different on either site, and it seems like any property these days gets listed everywhere, so why is this particular market and AirBnB in particular such a darling?

Transactions also have no "notion" of storage implementation details, so your point really isn't relevant to the topic at hand. They operate at a higher level of abstraction.

Binary live-vs.-die statistics aren't the full story. This illness is known to cause lingering side effects (lungs and heart) that in particular would affect those in physically demanding careers -- e.g. musicians and dancers as was mentioned by OP.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/08/athletes-co...

> I feel like such a hybrid device would have a number of obvious operational advantages, e.g. much lower bandwidth/render-power requirements (each frame, your GPU would only have to render a high-resolution image of a little square, along with a very low-res image of the rest of the scene.)

Foveated rendering provides these benefits without needing a mechanical mechanism. (Though it does still require full-field high resolution displays and apparently the eye-tracking requirements haven't been fully solved yet -- which would also preclude your suggestion of a hybrid device.)

Even within journalism there is a world of difference between cropping and outright manipulation.

There is very much a "light switch" effect that occurs when totality hits. It's a very discrete moment of time -- an obvious discontinuity which is part of what makes the phenomenon seem so otherworldly. If you didn't have that kind of nearly-instantaneous "lights out" experience then yes, you did miss out on the main event. In any case I definitely recommend getting into the path of totality in 2024.

Many states are experiencing continued increase in infection rates. See https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/, to a lesser extent https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ for example. Deaths will lag that. Doubling time is really only a legitimate factor insofar as we can develop vaccines and treatments in the interim, and that hospital capacity is preserved; otherwise it's just a question of whether mass bad outcomes occur now or later. To be clear, I'm not arguing for continued lockdowns -- that seems fruitless. But it seems premature to assume the worst is behind us.

Be careful not to swing too far the other way and assume that a flat positivity rate implies a flat actual infection rate. As states increase testing capacity, lower risk individuals will start to become part of the testing pool (e.g. those without severe symptoms, those with only fleeting contact with someone infected, those with no connection at all as part of a disease surveillance measure, etc.). Thus a flat testing positivity rate can very well coexist alongside an actual increase in rate of infection, and given the aforementioned factors we might even infer the latter given the former.

> No one could have predicted the magnitude of this.

Anyone who was paying attention to what was going on at ground-level in China in January could see this coming. It's the lack of testing at that time up through February that caused us (speaking as someone from the U.S.) to follow Italy's trajectory (or worse) rather than South Korea's.

And no one is disparaging those at the front lines who are doing their best to mitigate this very very bad situation.

In this situation most would agree it's better to be ahead; the criticism is justified.

WHO does rely in large part on donations. See http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA72/A72_35-en.pdf page 82. It could certainly be argued that they have an interest in convincing China to boost the voluntary portion of its contribution to match that of some of the other nations on that list.

This assumes that neither testing bottlenecking nor information suppression is a factor with respect to reported numbers, which is far from certain.

People pay for government services through taxes and if enough of them were sufficiently unsatisfied for a long enough time there would be a revolution of some sort. It’s not as easy to connect the dots as it is in an open marketplace but suggesting a government does not or cannot produce value is absurd.

One of them seems to have also been arrested: http://www.kansascity.com/news/article206886324.html

Space engine http://spaceengine.org/ is also worth mentioning

There definitely isn't a full second missing before impact. Maybe a tenth of a second.

This is not true according to my experience. See https://imgur.com/a/VH0Bs. Note that in my case the performance restoration came about after I had my battery replaced -- no data wiping or other system cleaning occurred.

> Lost in all the media reports is that the throttling only happens at peak system power demand.

Throttling at least occurs during app loading. Apple admits as much and it was true (subjectively) in my experience. If loading an app qualifies as "peak system power demand" your point is kind of lost because loading apps is something everyone with a mobile device does very frequently.

How did you come to this conclusion? My 6S was running in this “low speed mode” (as confirmed by Geekbench 4 results) even when the battery was at 100%, phone plugged in, placed at my desk at room temperature all afternoon. Only relevant variable seemed to be the battery age, and the results improved (along with subjective perceived performance increase) only when I recently had it replaced.

I’d rather have the ability to choose. I recently had my battery replaced (6S) and saw my Geekbench 4 score go from ~1700 to ~2450. My phone is frequently attached to a charging cord at my desk during the day so battery life is less of concern, yet this CPU throttling occurred even when the old battery was at 100% and phone was connected to the charger. There’s really no excuse for that other than that Apple was trying to be deceptive.

What you are saying may be true of finance. But it's not true of accounting, in which exact figures are paramount.

Even in the totality path, you'll want the glasses for the relatively much longer duration during which the sun isn't completely obscured.

I definitely dispute the idea that homelessness is what drives construction in the United States. And I'd argue that in some cases building goes on "ahead of demand" in the USA as well, though it admittedly takes a lot of capital to do so, and of course it doesn't occur to the extent that China's planned economy allows for. (It also faces the same pitfalls; see Atlantic City, NJ for example.)

I'd also submit that constructing buildings which never get occupied (or don't get occupied until they begin falling into a state of disrepair) is totally senseless regardless of scale.

I think everyone in this thread is fine with it.