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Why does unequal amounts of RAM in each slot decrease performance? describes the RAM specifications for many of the MacBook laptops. In the section for my laptop (13" Pro Late 2011), it says:     Additional Notes: For best performance, fill both memory slots, installing an equal memory module in each slot.   This isn't the first time I've heard of this phenomenon, and it's definitely not specific to Apple.   Why is this the case? Other than the obvious decrease in available memory, why would it be worse to run with 6GB (1x4GB + 1x2GB) than with 8GB (2x4GB)? $3$ and $5 $cent coins Is any UFD also a PID? Clear up confusion about the meaning of entropy So I though, and was told, that entropy is the amount of disorder in a system. Specifically the example of heat flow and it flows to maximize entropy. To me this seemed odd. This seemed more ordered to me, from two things (hot and cold) to one thing (lukewarm).   So as I have read today on wikipedia        In recent years the long-standing use of term "disorder" to discuss   entropy has met with some criticism.[20][21][22]      When considered at a microscopic level, the term disorder may quite   correctly suggest an increased range of accessible possibilities; but   this may result in confusion because, at the macroscopic level of   everyday perception, a higher entropy state may appear more homogenous   (more even, or more smoothly mixed) apparently in diametric opposition   to its description as being "more disordered". Thus for example there   may be dissonance at equilibrium being equated with "perfect internal   disorder"; or the mixing of milk in coffee being described as a   transition from an ordered state to a disordered state.      It has to be stressed, therefore, that "disorder", as used in a   thermodynamic sense, relates to a full microscopic description of the   system, rather than its apparent macroscopic properties. Many popular   chemistry textbooks in recent editions increasingly have tended to   instead present entropy through the idea of energy dispersal, which is   a dominant contribution to entropy in most everyday situations.    So what this is saying basically many people mistake the macroscopic outcome of entropy in the same manner as I have above. Seemingly two dissimilar things combining and becoming one.   They say to understand it microscopically. But this still is odd to me, take for example the particles in a box, when they come to thermal equilibrium they are said to have the most entropy they can within their system (from wiki again)     Entropy – in thermodynamics, a parameter representing the state of   disorder of a system at the atomic, ionic, or molecular level; the   greater the disorder the higher the entropy.[7]   What is disorder in the molecular sense I guess is my question. When the particles all come to thermal equilibrium they all seem to be uniform, which I equate with ordering.  I feel disorder in the molecular sense would be fast moving particles, making a mind boggling amount of interactions with each other. Such as in a hot gas, hot gas seems super disordered, but put cold gas in thermal contact with it, let them come to thermal equilibrium, and now they are more ordered!? I might end up teaching philosophy in Finnish lukio/gymnasium. I will not get an opportunity to practice teaching it - I do get to practice teaching mathematics a fair deal, though. (The situation is somewhat unfortunate.) I have taken subject studies in philosophy at university. They amount to around 60 credits (ECTS).  Suppose I give the students an exam, which asks them to write an essay or two. After that my task is to grade the exams in a fair way and comment them in such a way that the students can learn from the feedback.  -  Suppose the task was to write an essay on the problem of universals - nominalism and realism, say. Let us say 6 points is the perfect score for this task.  I would expect the students to define nominalism and realism (2 points, maybe?) and explain the problem (2 points). Remaining two points for taking some stance and arguing for it - realism is more reasonable because so and so. Partial credits for demonstrating only partial understanding.  -  Am I missing some important aspects of philosophical thinking? Should I emphasize the different parts of an answer in a different way? I suspect my perspective is influenced by fairly extensive mathematics education - is there something particular I should watch out for? How does Java's serialization work and when it should be used instead of some other persistence technique? I've been lately trying to learn more and generally test Java's serialization for both work and personal projects and I must say that the more I know about it, the less I like it. This may be caused by misinformation though so that's why I'm asking these two things from you all:  1: On byte level, how does serialization know how to match serialized values with some class?  One of my problems right here is that I made a small test with ArrayList containing values "one", "two", "three". After serialization the byte array took 78 bytes which seems awfully lot for such low amount of information(19+3+3+4 bytes). Granted there's bound to be some overhead but this leads to my second question:  2: Can serialization be considered a good method for persisting objects at all? Now obviously if I'd use some homemade XML format the persistence data would be something like this  &lt;object&gt;     &lt;class="java.util.ArrayList"&gt;     &lt;!-- Object array inside Arraylist is called elementData --&gt;     &lt;field name="elementData"&gt;         &lt;value&gt;One&lt;/value&gt;         &lt;value&gt;Two&lt;/value&gt;         &lt;value&gt;Three&lt;/value&gt;     &lt;/field&gt; &lt;/object&gt;   which, like XML in general, is a bit bloated and takes 138 bytes(without whitespaces, that is). The same in JSON could be   {     "java.util.ArrayList": {         "elementData": [             "one",             "two",             "three"         ]     } }   which is 75 bytes so already slightly  smaller than Java's serialization. With these text-based formats it's of course obvious that there has to be a way to represent your basic data as text, numbers or any combination of both.  So to recap, how does serialization work on byte/bit level, when it should be used and when it shouldn't be used and what are real benefits of serialization besides that it comes standard in Java? Powers of infinite cardinals in the generic extension Why does Oracle 9i treat an empty string as NULL? How to check if a thread is sleeping? do_shortcode() within Admin Page I'm using a few plugins that have shortcodes ... however, instead of creating a public page for the content, I've created some new pages within the admin using add_menu_page and I need to know how to utilize do_shortcode() within this context.  As it stands, all the function does it spit out the string. I'm assuming it's because the shortcode API isn't available within an admin page.  How do I get around this? There is no documentation that I can find that explains how to utilize shortcodes within the WP Admin... or if it's even possible.    Specifically I'm trying to utilize WooCommerce shortcodes within the WP Admin. I hate the fact that plugins don't utilize the WP Backend for account/user management. Can I boil milk unattended (and still keep the pan clean)? It is well known that a  can "split light" by separating different frequencies of light:    Many sources state that the reason this happens is that the  is different for different frequencies.  This is known as .  My question is about why dispersion exists.  Is frequency dependence for refraction a property fundamental to all waves?  Is the effect the result of some sort of non-linearity in response by the refracting material to electromagnetic fields?  Are there (theoretically) any materials that have an essentially constant, non-unity index of refraction (at least for the visible spectrum)? My initial problem was that my computer wouldn't let me login to my account. It seems to shut down after I enter my password. I can login as a guest.  I found fixes but I can't remember / figure out my login for access after I hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 and most of the fixes for finding your login username depend on you having access to your account.  I thought the login was the name which appears on the screen when I start the computer normally, but this has not worked, is there another way to find out my username while being effectively locked out of my root-user profile?  I am also assuming that the password is the same one I always use.  Conversely, if the name which appears on the screen at startup and my normal password should have worked, is there another explanation for why I am not able to login on the black command screen. How many permanent SPECIAL points are available in Fallout 4? Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space, and say $(x_n)$ is a Cauchy sequence such that it has a convergent subsequence $(x_{n_k})$ that converges to $x$. We show $x_n \to x$. Let $\epsilon &gt; 0$. Take $N &gt;0$ such that for all $n,m &gt; N$, we have   $$d(x_n,x_m) &lt; \frac{\epsilon}{2}.$$  By hypothesis, we can take also $K &gt;0$ such that for all $n_k &gt; K$, we have  $$ d(x_{n_k},x) &lt; \frac{\epsilon}{2}.$$  Put $M = \max \{N,K\}$. Therefore, for all $n,m,n_k &gt; M$, we have  $$ d(x_n,x) \leq d(x_n, x_{n_k}) + d( x_{n_k},x) &lt; \frac{\epsilon}{2} + \frac{\epsilon}{2} = \epsilon.$$  Hence, $x_n \to x$ as desired.  Is this a correct approach? Thank you very much in advance. I have a problem with a virus in windows 7, I don't know what kind of virus is infected my OS, I installed kasersky antivirus, and clear all detected viruses. After that I can't open any antivirus sites, can't ping any antivirus sites. example:  C:\Windows\system32&gt;ping kaspersky.com Pinging kaspersky.com [38.117.98.231] with 32 bytes of data: General failure. General failure. General failure. General failure.  Ping statistics for 38.117.98.231:     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),   When I ping to other sites, I get reply normally: example woth pinging to google.com  C:\Windows\system32&gt;ping google.com  Pinging google.com [31.7.160.224] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 31.7.160.224: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=61 Reply from 31.7.160.224: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=61 Reply from 31.7.160.224: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=61 Reply from 31.7.160.224: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=61  Ping statistics for 31.7.160.224:     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:     Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 1ms   I tryed any antispyware/antimalware softwares, but null results.  Anyone else encountered this problem? Compiling LaTeX document empties .bbl file I'm trying out biblatex for the document I'm compiling, using the biber backend on my miktex distribution. Everything, including biber, should be up to date, assuming the MiKTeX repository currently holds the latest versions of everything.  This is what the biblatex documentation (p. 101) says about how often I have to run biber to update my .bbl file:     Whenever a reference to a work which has not been cited before is   added, this procedure must be repeated. This is also the case if the   last reference to a work which has been cited before is removed   because some citation labels may change in this case.   So if I make changes to my document (which is a very common activity in the process of writing a document), but leave the citations unchanged, I should not have to re-run biber before compiling the changes. However, every time I compile my document, regardless of the compiler or documentclass, the .bbl file is emptied. Consequently, the next time I compile the document without running biber, the bibliography is removed (seeing as the .bbl file contains nothing), and all my citations are broken. For this reason, I have to run biber before every time I compile the document, which largely counters the benefit of externalizing the bibliography in the first place.  How can I make the compilers stop overwriting my .bbl file and make everything behave as described in the biblatex manual?  Upon investigating the contents of the auxiliary files, I found that the .bbl file (after running biber, before compiling) begins with the following lines:  % $ biblatex auxiliary file $ % $ biblatex bbl format version 2.3 $   Does the biblatex version 2.8 still mark the .bbl files as version 2.3? If not, could this be the problem? And if so, why does my 2.8 version of biblatex (partly) behave as version 2.3?  Any help solving this problem would be much appreciated. What's the best way to get the last N elements of a Perl array? bash aliases equivalent for powershell? By default my Windows PowerShell starts in C:\Users\Santosh, my XAMPP installation is in D:\ so the htdocs folder is located at D:\xampp\htdocs. If I have to edit something in htdocs folder then I have to type full cd D:\xampp\htdocs\ (autocompletion is not so kind) then edit that file.  If this PowerShell were a Bash I would do this in .bash_aliases file:  alias htdocs='cd D:\xampp\htdocs'  Is it possible to maintain Bash aliases like file and alias any command in PowerShell? Hide textfield blinking cursor