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Cp-Coder wrote: Get vaccinated now. If not, see you soon
If that's how it worked, then it's a problem that would simply solve itself given enough time.
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Indeed there is no reason to keep trying to convince, cajole and coerce people into vaccinating. Those who do won't get long covid or die, those who don't will - their loss.
I understand coercing people in Italy, where social welfare is pretty good and health service is free* and an inalienable right - it avoids a HUGE cost to society to try and save suicidally dumb people. In some other countries... eh, if they want to end up financially bankrupt to pay for weeks of ICU and/or eventually dead or crippled for life under their own expenses, let them. Who cares.
* For the individual but it's paid through taxes so it's paid by every productive member of society.
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Two wrongs to try to make a right. The state monopolizes health care and then justifies taking away yet more freedom on the basis of cost savings? It's all political, else they wouldn't bother treating people who are obese, addicted to harmful substances, catch sexually transmitted diseases...
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There is no health monopoly in Italy, we have plenty of private clinics and they will be more than happy to take your money. But we actually recognise health as a sort of basic human right and everybody is entitled to it, no matter what.
If you can and want, sure, pay up and go to the best doctor there is, if you can't, you probably won't get the best treatment but you will at least get treated.
At least we don't have people screaming "don't call the ambulance" after an accident around here and you can't get in debt for a visit in the ER, that is free no matter what
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In Canada, it's a total monopoly. It's actually illegal to operate a private clinic except for elective procedures. I also lived in the US for 15 years and wouild take their system, flawed as it is, over the one here. Waiting times are rare, unlike here. But having insurance is important because the costs are high as the result of various stupid things that have nothing to do with a free market.
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A former colleague of mine was a smoker. He would buy a pack of cigarettes and very carefully transfer them to a tobacco tin and throw away the packet they came in. When I asked him why he did this he showed me the old packet which had a very graphic photo of someone's blackened, cigarette damaged lungs. He said "they keep putting these photos on the packet and it puts me right off smoking, so I throw away the packet". Some people you will never convince!!
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This is a long story, but I'll try to keep it short.
Background
While tracking down a bug/error in my ASP.NET Core 5.0 MVC app I'm building I discovered that it was because I was attempting to pass in a sample string as the model (from my controller).
But when the engine would try to call the View() constructor it would think I was passing the path / filename of my View class.
return View(myHashString);
When that happened I would see a really cryptic crash stating that the engine could not find my View file. What?!?
All I had to do to fix it was prefix the string I was passing in with model: (named argument) so it could differentiate that I was passing the value as the model and not as the path to the view file:
return View(model:myHashString);
Named Arguments in .NET
But, I was like, uh...how long .NET been taking named arguments?
So I went out and checked the docs for named arguments (down the rabbit hole).
Named and Optional Arguments - C# Programming Guide | Microsoft Docs[^]
That doc says .NET 4 but is dated 09/25/2020.
Did .NET 4 release in 2020?
Is that when named arguments became a thing in .NET?
Anyone?
EDIT : Found wikipedia article[^]:
.NET 4 was way back i 2009. I am slow on the uptake of named args. 
modified 27-Sep-21 16:25pm.
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Yup, they've been a thing since .NET 4 - and that was a long time ago (officially April 2010).
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Thanks very much. I posted my an edit to my OP when I found a wikiepdia article stating that date.
I bit embarrassed that named arguments haven't every really meant anything to me before this.
I'm an avid Kotlin (and less avid Swift) user and they both have named args.
I think being a bit old school named args don't mean as much to me. 
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Aaah default parameters. The thing nightmares are made of. Pure evil.
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When abused.
They have their place, but as with anything else, when abused they can be a nightmare.
The solution is to not let said abusers get away with it. Otherwise, as the meme goes, that's why we can't have nice things...
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With them it's so easy to fall into a trap and trigger unintended behavior that one has to wonder are they really worth it. In C++ they can allow you to do some interesting tricks, but in C# I'm not sure about it.
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I'm sorry but I cannot let you take over this thread with this disgusting talk of default params.
This was a discussion about named arguments and will continue to be so.
Please see yourself to the door, immediately!
Sincerely,
Your esteemed moderator
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Visual Basic.Net has been handling named arguments since the initial release. C# didn't get them until several releases later (not sure when).
Named arguments aren't a Framework feature. They're a language compiler feature.
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Not one that switches to battery with a click that causes some equipment to instantaneously power off.
Something that runs off of the battery with a power inverter and the battery is kept topped up with the charging system.
And something that can provide about 1000 watt hours of battery power, so if I draw 300 watts, it'll stay alive for 3 hours or so.
Any recommendations?
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Don't buy anything Chinese.
I did, and regretted it when it failed in under a year. Needless to say, the supplier and manufacturer had disappeared by then.
Be aware that couriers are a PITA as well - the first two I had delivered had been physically broken in transit and had to be returned. Heavy batteries and transformers make for fragile packages!
You do probably want a "pure sine wave" output - many PC PSUs don't like chopped square wave and won't work at all or will fail quickly. Check your PSU's for "Active Power Factor Correction" or "APFC" and if you find it, it's a no-no unless you have a pure sine AC input.
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I have had the CyberPower BRG1500AVRLCD[^] for several years now and it's been a good one. I had to replace batteries a couple of years ago but it was a simple inexpensive procedure.
As far as operating off battery it lasts about 20 minutes, enough to finish what you are doing and shutdown.
Unless you spend a ton of money on a UPS or devise a way to hook in better batteries you won't get 3 hours.
[edit]
Sorry this was meant for Marc
{/edit]
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Be aware that couriers are a PITA as well - the first two I had delivered had been physically broken in transit and had to be returned. Heavy batteries and transformers make for fragile packages!
I'm putting my own rack network together at home for a test environement. This past week. I ordered an APC rack-mounted UPS with 4 batteries. The courier decided that it was too heavy for her, while carrying it on her shoulders, and tossed it down onto concrete. She then walked away, while we watched, and stated that it was the shippers fault that it is damaged. 
Lucky for me, the shipper sent me a new one at no charge.
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modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Thanks! And good advice on the pure sine wave - I forgot about that.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Something that runs off of the battery with a power inverter and the battery is kept topped up with the charging system.
That seems tough to implement, charging a battery while it's sourcing power to a load. Seems like primary source of power would need to be switched, otherwise the battery charging circuit would be driving the load.
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jeron1 wrote: Marc Clifton wrote: Something that runs off of the battery with a power inverter and the battery is kept topped up with the charging system.
That seems tough to implement, charging a battery while it's sourcing power to a load. Seems like primary source of power would need to be switched, otherwise the battery charging circuit would be driving the load.
Online/double conversion UPSes do just that. They start at a few hundred dollars for the same range of capacities that would be $50-150 in more affordable consumer models. I don't know if the hardware required actually costs that much more or it's mostly high margins on the enterprise product.
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That's pretty neat, I'll have to read up on them, thanks.
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When I worked as a network tech many years ago, I always went with Eaton. Extraordinarily reliable, but not cheap.
Backup Power UPS[^]
If you want it to run from the inverter continuously you need to check "Online" in the Topology filter. (You probably need to go to the 9-series for that)
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Ugh, their site is full of popups and accept cookies. None-the-less, looks like a great source, but I notice the don't make pricing obvious.
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