Hey all, to give a bit of context, I'm turning 20 soon, and I have 3 years worth of TFSA that I can invest, so, 18'500$. I already have a few thousands in VSP, and I've seen some talk about X/V/ZEQT. I'm planning long-term here, so I'm mostly trying to follow the market, if possible.
So my question is: what is the main difference between VSP and the other types? Would investing in both, or in other markets, be a better idea?

In this article, we will delve into the unique characteristics of eel sauce and oyster sauce, helping you understand their flavors, ingredients, and culinary applications.

Nike Alternate Custom Game Jersey - $169
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What's the difference between these two jerseys?
Is it the quality or is this some technical error on the NFL Shop?

I suppose I am the dumper for initiating the break up but I feel towards the end it was rather mutual.
Here is my story:
I dated a co-worker for almost 8 months and she is much younger than me. It was the most intense, romantic and passionate relationship I was ever involved in (she has the zodiac sign Cancer), despite us sharing different cultural beliefs and religions. We were very much in love and it showed. On three seperate occassions thoughout the 8 months she sent me three love letters and her gifts were always so thoughtful. For context, I am a muslim and she is a christian (not very practicing though on her end). I knew from the first day it would be challenging because of the circumstances, including the fact we work in the same office and on the same floor albeit in different teams and the fact that the age gap meant we had different levels of emotional maturity. Also, I am at a stage in my life where I want to date to marry, whereas, I do not think she is ready for marriage. That was showing as the relationship progressed. Around 4 months in, we had a talk where I told her that I was starting to feel somewhat guilty because being in the relationship after all and not knowing how secure our relationship would be and that I am not conforming to my faith was overshadowing all the beautiful moments we kept experiencing. She was open to learn and try and embrace Islam but of course needed a lot of time for this. We agreed 4 months in around December that come March (when it would be Ramadan and I wanted to focus on trying to be a good muslim again) we would try and transition from being romantic partners to friends or something of the like, considering we work on the same floor and that we did not want to totally cut each other out of our lives. I also told her that I did not want to close the door on her completely but that maybe if we gave ourselves the chance to work on ourselves and the flaws that were causing friction between us, who knows, we may reconnect and be in a much better place like 12 months down the line. I was also open with her that maybe I needed to give myself a chance to try and meet someone from my own culture (as that would make marriage easier to some extent) and she can figure out what kind of man she really wants to be with (for exampe she has the more western mentality of wanting to do everything with a partner lik they were married without yet being married if you know what I mean).
In terms of the flaws, I brought to her attention that she needed to stop being judgmental, confrontational, impulsive and to give me the benefit of the doubt when things are not always so rosy or when there is a difficult moment. Our arguments were emotionally draining everytime there was a moment of adversity. We had several arguments where everytime something was not particularly pleasing to her, or where she had a different optionion / disagreement, she would often handle such situations differently to me. Needless to say, she is, in my view, not very emotionally mature. Of course, I also committed some mistakes like not always being very attentive to her emotions. Like, some situations could have also been avoided if I was a bit more tactful.
Our last argument was mid march and even though I apologized to her and explained to her my point of view, when I made three attempts to talk to her in person (to ensure we remain amicable as the break up was looming), she did not show much enthusiasm to meet in person based on her replies (i.e.. telling me she cant meet without implying a future time to talk OR telling me to call her instead of in-person) . I took that as a sign she was not willing to talk and I never reached out again. I felt I also needed to respect my dignity and stop trying to reach out.
I took the advice of many experts to undergo NC and its been two months of no contact whatsover. When she sees me in the office, she may walk past me but not make eye contact. Literally, she would look downwards.
Last week, since we work in the same company, an assignment came to me where I had to involve her because of her background knowledge. I noticed, in writing as well as verbally, her tone with me was rather sharpish, direct and straight-to-the-point. It was not one of warmth. At one point she called me on MS Teams (work communication system) to discuss the report but it was like "hi, okay, so I read your email, what do you mean by XYZ". She was simply direct and kept it stricly work related. Towards the end of the call, I asked her "do you have a minute as I wish to discussing something non-work related with you.." to which she replied "I am in the office actually" but her attitude still showed she was not willing to talk about something private (granted also someone else was in the office). However, I thought to myself, she would still write to me on the chat and say that after work she may have a minute, or, she would have taken the laptop to another empty room to be alone. So, that made me feel again she was not very willing to speak to me. After the call, we messaged each other regarding the assignmnet and I wrote "Thank you for the collaboration" to which she replied "pleasure". Again, a straight and direct response.
So, technically, I did not break the no contact rule but after 2 months and since it was work-related, we did end up having some form of communication without touching on the unresolved issues of the past. It is akward for me and it hurts to walk past her office (literally 4 meters apart).
I would like to know whether I assesed the signals correctly that she is not open to talk right now? Or, has she simply moved on? Is she still angry because she thought I would try harder to speak since March? Should I give it more time and wait for her to speak to me? This is a girl who kept writing and saying to me she is madly in love, wanted to have children with me, travel the world, and just be beside me. I just do not understand how cold she has become, yet we both knew and were aligned on the transition months ahead of the break-up.
She has not deleted my number from whatsapp.
Notwithstanding the above, I very much love her. I think of her everyday.. I hope you can guide me and tell me if you think there is any hope she will reach out on her own or if I should just move on completely? This is my first real break up.

Hey everyone, I remember 2 years ago I was looking for info on how to get into quant trading/finance and there were very few resources on reddit. Since then I've interned as a trader for one big prop shop/MM/Hedge fund and been hired as a full-time trader out of college for another. Been at my current job for almost 1 year now, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you all have about recruiting, interviews, or the job itself (which isn't talked about enough in my opinion). We can also talk about the differences between quant traders and quants as well as between companies (broadly, like what is the difference between a hedge fund and a market maker)
About me: Went to a non-target school, graduated w/ a math degree and a 4.0, never did any math competitions in high school or college. My resume was incredibly barren (and poorly constructed) when I landed my first internship (no prior jobs/projects/career fairs/trading competitions etc), basically just my major, GPA, my schoolwork, and my interests. My only hobby was/is gaming (both videogames and tabletop games)
Rules: I'll answer anything that doesn't give away specifics of where I have worked / am working or my own identity. As such I won't be able to give specific details about any company (i.e XYZs company culture is a lot more toxic than ABCs)
Good luck everyone! I plan to do this again around recruiting season if there's interest.

Hi all - I am doing the Camino Frances soon and had purchased a Gregory Jade 38L on sale. In my initial packing attempt, I had quite a bit of space left so I tried packing everything into my Osprey Hikelight 26L just to see. The total difference between the two bags is ~ 0.5kg (~1.2lb).
The Gregory 38L is 4.4kg and the Osprey 26L is 3.8kg (on my first packing attempt- doesn’t include 1.5l water weight or sandal weight). FYI I am F42, in shape, ~125 lbs.
Post Camino, I also plan to travel in Europe for another week or two so my thought is the extra space may be useful for purchases. 0.5 kg/1lb doesn’t seem like a huge difference for the added space I’d get with the Gregory, but based on what I’ve read, lighter is better. Although this was just my first packing attempt and I’m sure both pack weights will go up 0.5kg at least once I finalize everything (eg I had not packed water yet) so the extra 0.5kg May end up making a difference. What do you all think?

Note: This is an update on my challenge, since I had this idea brought to my attention. It kind of makes sense to me anyway.
You awaken, startled, and find yourself in a strange room with blue water flowing from up high, you standing in the center of a hexagonal platform with six other platforms, adorned each with a different symbol, at each of the points of your platform.
Standing on the platform with the yellow symbol you find a blonde woman who you would recognize to appear much like Princess Zelda from the The Legend of Zelda series, though none of them seem to match her appearance exactly.
"Greetings, traveler from another world." Speaks up the woman, smiling mildly at you. "I am Hylia, goddess of this realm and agent of the GOlden Goddesses who created it. I am sure you wonder how you got here or if this is even real, but I assure you, it is. I have brought you here on recommendation of a certain, impish deity from outside this realm, with a request." Explained Hylia and a lifts a hand to create a ball of light.
"I was granted the ability to host a, as your people call it, Jumpchain, and directed to take you on as a Jumper, as for why I am doing this, well... There hasn't been born a hero in this timeline. Link doesn't exist here." She sighs and shakes her head.
"For that reason, I have called on you, to take the role, so let me get to the actual rules next." She explains.

1. You must take each Main Series Zelda game jump in chronological Order, as in the timeline chronological order.

I. Skyward Sword
II. Minish Cap
III. Four Swords
IV. Ocarina of Time
V. Majora's Mask
VI. Twilight Princess
VII. Four Swords Adventures
VIII.1 Adult Timeline/Downfall Timeline your choice
VIII.2 Wind WakeA Link to the Past
VIII.3 Phantom Hourglass/Link's Awakening
VIII.4 Spirit Tracks/Oracle of Ages or Seasons
VIII.5 None/Other Oracle game
VIII.6 None/Oracle of Scenario
VIII.7 None/A Link Between Worlds
VIII.8 None/Zelda 1 Gauntlet
VIII.9 None/Zelda 2
IX. Breath of the Wild (Final of this section of the chain)

1. You may not use the Universal Drawbacks Supplement.
   
2. You may only use standard Supplements such as Cosmic Warehouse or it's replacers, Bodymod as well as Housing, Dock and so on Supplements.
   
3. You can choose 1 Drawback in a Jump when you make your build, it's negative effects are doubled but you may take it's CP into all other Jumps too, granting that CP the Drawback gave to your starting budget.
   
4. CP carried over from Drawbacks are cut in half during Gauntlets.
   
5. Companion Purchases and Imports are free of charge.
   
6. If you hook up with somebody and have a child, it can become a Companion.
   
7. You cannot quit the chain until you're done with all of the above jumps as well as one more additional Jump.
   
8. You must take the role of Link and do his job.
   
9. As Link, you must be Hylian though in the Adult Timeline you may choose to be one of the other races as that Link wasn't initially chosen but become the hero of his own volition, you carry the race choice into the Spirit Tracks Jump.
   
10. Heart Container are a thing here too, but you will start each Zelda Jump with only the starting 3 heart containers. They work as damage sponges, keeping you save and healthy until they run out.
    
11. You cannot take the Triforce between the Jumps of this section of the chain, if you as Link would have one of the Triforce aspects, fine, that is just part of the jump. But you cannot rip the Triforce of Power out of Ganondorf's stiff corpse after Twilight Princess and take it into Four Swords Adventures, sorry.
    
12. During Gauntlets and Powerloss situations (Item or Perk loss) you may choose 10 Perks and 10 Items from the jumps listed above and take them along into those jumps but they're scaled down to local levels if they're too OP.
    

She took another breath, smiling a bit. "Naturally I won't demand this without further recompense after you save my world, naturally." She states and takes a last breath before running into the rewards for basically marathoning all of the Zelda Franchise:

1. You will be known in future Jumps as "The Hero of Light", with all things dark and evil knowing you on sight and knowing that you have faced far worse than them in your time. This grants you the sort of treatment reserved for police officers as these beings know, you are the Immune System against their kind.
   
2. You may take Generic First Jump, Generic Virgin and Generic First Gauntlet following this series of jumps. However, Gauntlet rules for powers are in effects in these jumps.
   
3. You are granted the Triforce for real this time, though because of divine politics it isn't omnipotent outside the world of Hyrule. Once per year it can be used to grant a wish up to and incuding something on the level of restoring the Lorule Triforce or reviving the dead.
   
4. The Triforce grants, for each of it's components, one of the following boons:
   

I. Power: Grants Immortality up to three times a Jump with only extreme damage from weapons that are explicitly powerful against you working. Also grants a x10 boost to all physical attributes.
II. Wisdom: Grants near limitless magical power, greatly increase intelligence, a x10 multiplier to the speed at which you're learning new information, as well as allowing you to grant your Perks to another person if they agree to it.
III. Courage: Never be frozen in fear, always able to react and act. You also have a strong will, able to withstand incredible hardships, resist attempts to break your will and even resist any and all efforts to possess you. Lastly, no amount of time can rust your blade, your skills will remain as fresh and well oiled as if you had been practicing nonstop for years. Lastly, if you would die for real, another you is born and the plot and your time in a Jump shall not continue until that you is at least 12 years old, which in Zelda terms means they're ready to kick ass and take names.
IV.1 Additionally, the three grant the following spells: Din's Fire: Create a powerful fireblast around you at base, may also be used as Pyrokinesis and heat control.
IV.2 Nayru's Wisdom: Create a bubble shield around you that lasts 3 minutes at base, may also create a panel or large dome shield of up to 50 meters in circumference. Attacks cannot penetrate this shield while it lasts.
IV.3 Farore's Wind: A Teleportation Spell, can bring you to any building you've been to or out of a building you're in, regardless of teleportation restrictions. Has enough range to reach the International Space Station in your world from the Mariana's Trench's deepest point.

1. All of your Companions, gained here, share a Companion Slot, meaning that for the price of one Companion, all of them can be imported. However, they do not share the same companion stipend, instead each gets their own as separate companions with a +400 CP to any stipend they would get and another +300 CP for Item Sections and any special sections of a jump. Don't want your comrades getting held back, right?
   
2. Weapon purchases and upgrades stack, all manual upgrades are also fiat backed. In essence, if you have several purchases of the L2 upgrade applied to, say, the Master Sword, each of them will multiply the power of said weapon.
   
3. Fi, Sword of the Hero: The spirit of the Master Sword, Fi, has regained complete self-awareness and may manifest once more in physical form. I have integrated knowledge acquisition abilities into her that will work in all future jumps similar to how it worked in the time of Skyloft. She also imports separate from Companion Slots automatically with 800 general CP and 400 CP as a stipend for Item sections and other sections like that separate from Items or Perks. CP from importing her directly naturally stacks on top of that but not in the way of the other companions. Lastly, she can, like in Hyrule Warriors, assume the form of the Master Sword which she can manipulate telekinetically and has all the same upgrades and powers as your own strongest variant.
   
4. The powers of the champions are now your own to command. Mipha's Grace, Daruk's Protection, Urbosa's Fury, Revali's Gale and Link's Time Dilation are all abilities you now possess on the same level as said champions, and yes, the time dilation is an actual ability, not just a game mechanic. However, Daruk's Protection doesn't work against electricity and can be broken through, and Mipha's Grace still takes some time to cast.
   
5. Hyrulean Hero: You have earned the loyalty, friendship and in some cases love, of so many people in this world, why should we leave you to on with just a pittance of that? At will you can summon an army of Hyrule's various races of light, from Hylians to Koroks and Kokiri, of all the eras you have visited. They are equipped to the peak of their respective armed forces capabilities, Hylian Knights standing with Goron Warriors, Zora Pikeman flanking Kokiri Bowman and Gerudo Skirmishers preparing to charge in after Rito bombing runs, Sheikah Shinobi preparing to go in with an army of Guardians. Just be careful, this is still a medieval army, Guardians or not.
   
6. (NEW) Companions can import into Generic First/Virgin Jump/Gauntlet with 1000 C to use and a Origin of their choice. They will come along with you through the levels of the Jump/Gauntlet, obviously.
   

Once again she took her time to breath through after the rant, before smiling at you. "So yes, please do your best to be the very spirit of the hero, I will await the day you finish. Ah, another thing: The various actions you can perform and the detriments that are listed, they all apply to jumps after the jumps here in this world, only that you don't need to continue into another Zelda Jump, if there are any left." She explains and smirks a bit.
"Naturally I wouldn't mind having one or more Zeldas coming along with you, I heard it is fairly entertaining when the fate of my world isn't at stake. Hint Hint."

Hi all.
On 5/12 and 5/19 I had an iron infusion and I've been trying to monitor and understand things. I've noticed it takes an average of 14-18 day, sometimes 3 weeks, to see an increase in my hemoglobin. I've had unexplained hemo drops that I'm getting looked into, it seems to correspond with my monthly cycle except my OB doesn't think I'm bleeding enough to drop 2-3+ points in a go.
On 5/22 I had an 11.9 hemoglobin (10 days post drip 1, 3 days post drip 2).
On 5/24 I had a 12.8 hemoglobin (drawn with other labs). I don't feel my hydration changed between those two days and I felt fine. I was 12 days post drip one, 5 days post drip two. I've been eating a nutrient rich diet for anemia (b12, folate, heme iron, vit C, etc) and suspect the drip had "kicked in" a bit. I've experienced similar upward swings (only upward) in my hemoglobin in this short of a time frame before without noticeable water intake differences or otherwise.
On 5/25 I got sent to ER with acute pancreatitis. Cause unknown but gallbladder, alcohol use, triglycerides, CURRENT meds, and high triglycerides and diabetes ruled out. Previous history of medication induced pancreatitis, possible exposure to a stomach bug a week prior this time so it's unclear. My hemoglobin was 14.5. Dehydrated, NPO approx. 24 hrs at time of draw, loose stools all day.
After several (lost count, I think they were changing them every hour or two) bags of fluids for about 2 days straight, my hemoglobin measured in at 11.3 hemo on 5/27. Discontinued fluids after.
I have been on methylprednisolone via IV, initial dose was something like 120 then 40 every 12 hours - just a guess, it seems twice a day- for IV contrast rash.
On 5/29 I am at 11.9 hemo, NPO 12hrs at that point, no fluids.
As far as I can tell, the only loss of blood has been blood draws.
I'm curious if anyone has info on how quickly hemoglobin can expect to increase or rebound. I need to get labs drawn for an unrelated reason and I don't want to get them done too soon and give myself time to bounce back.
I tend to hold on to my water weight but was recently cleared to start spironolactone, 100mg 2x day. I'm also trying to avoid becoming too dehydrated.
When can I expect my labs to return to "normal" enough? I realize there's no standard time frame, I'm just curious when it'd be OK to redraw labs without them being far off from my actual levels.
TIA

Hi all, this is my first post on here. I’m looking to see if anyone else has experienced this.
Recently I woke up one day and it felt like my meds weren’t working. I take them everyday so I haven’t even missed a dose. I Can tell they are in my system because I physically feel like I did (Idk if that made sense) ANYWAY since then I’ve noticed my memory start to seriously mess me up. I can’t remember anything, even if it was an event that happened that day. People will tell me about certain situations that happened, or like a conversation they had with me about something. But the memory is just gone. I feel like I’m starting to lose chunks of myself.
Along with just losing memory in general, I also am finding that I absolutely cannot tell the difference between reality and not. I can “recall” certain events that happened and just feels like a real memory. I will be SO convinced that a certain situation happened and then I am met with proof that it didn’t.
I am getting so scared. I can’t tell the difference between what has actually happened. I’ve always had memory issues, but I just feel like something’s terribly wrong and I don’t know what to even do!
For context, I do happen to have other disorders such as OCD, bipolar, ptsd, and like anxiety and depression (which isn’t really out of the ordinary). I do feel like my BPD is the main driver in my life.
I hope this makes sense. I’m terrified of what’s happening. I feel like my whole life I can’t even determine what had actually happened now.
Anyways, if you’ve made it this far, thank you. I appreciate any insight and advice you may have. 💖

i'm specifically interested in arcs 6-7

I just wanted to post a reminder about how to discern the difference between conviction and condemnation because it’s so easy to get tricked into thinking condemnation is actually conviction.
Condemnation comes from the enemy and it produces feelings of guilt, shame, agitation, stress, anxiety and confusion. None of these feelings are ever from God. They come from the enemy. As Romans 8:1 says: “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Condemnation also draws you further away from God, rather than drawing you to Him.
On the contrary, conviction brings about feelings of calm, peace, clarity, repentance and ultimately joy. Conviction does also cause you to realise that something you’ve been doing is against God’s will and that you should turn and repent. However feelings of shame or anxiety or any of the other emotions listed in the previous paragraph are never attached to the need to repent and turn. You will likely feel inspired to change and follow God’s will if it is truly God convicting you. You’ll also often feel grateful for God convicting you, and the conviction brings you closer to God.
Some other helpful verses about this are: 1 John 1:15, Galatians 5:22 and Romans 5:5
Hope this helps anyone who might have been struggling with this :)

Hey guys , I want to choose a main ignition core for lassi and I have these options : AMP CRT / DEF / AMP ATK AMP ATK / AMP CRT / CRT AMP DEF / ATK / AMP ATK Can you tell me the difference between these? does the order of stats matter? Thanks

Hello guys. 2 months ago a friend of mine played a joke on me by giving me a 98% HHC vape (milder form of THC) while telling me it is a CBD vape. I made a few huge vapes and I mean like 10 puffs but very big ones. After a few minutes I was in a severe Panic attack, which I experienced for a first time in my life. Brutal heartbeat , nausea, chills in my body, legs and hands numb. I asked him what he really gave me , but he kept insisting it is just cbd. I called my gf to come and pick me up. On the way home I experienced paranoia about this one friend giving me something which is not cbd on purpose and that he is doing it because he might be friend with a very bad person I was having problems with recently. But for the second part i was almost sure that is impossible. No hallucinations or any other form of paranoia/delusion. I’ve been having harm intrusive thoughts which scared me (the thought i might snap and act on them). The next morning i called him and he admitted about what he really gave me. After that I kept having panic attacks and disturbed sleep, zero appetite and dpdr for a few days. No hallucinations or delusions or strange thoughts except the one that gave me fear and panic - that i have broken my brain forever. I’ve had racing thoughts when falling asleep which were absolutely chaotic and irrational, making 0 sense and jumping rapidly from a topic to topic, but only when just falling asleep. If I opened my eyes and was fully awake, they immediately disappeared. I’ve read on google the day after the incident that there is connection between weed and schizo and that is what caused me extreme distress but I didn’t read any symptoms. The next 1-2 weeks things were getting better day after day and I decided I would do some online tests for schizo and read symptoms. After doing every single test I found I was immediately calmer , because I’ve never experienced even one symptom from the mentioned EVER. But I continued reassuring myself by reading and doing tests for the next 7-10 days, literally doing it all day. I was getting more and more concerned until I ended up in a new panic attack. I started constantly looking around and wondering if everything I saw or heard is real or am I hallucinating. Something with the corner of my eye or a momentary random sound. After a few days I decided I would swallow up my pride and start asking. Every time I’ve asked (hundreds of times) everyone else was seeing or hearing everything I did. So that wore off almost completely. Then the obsession with delusional thinking kicked in very hard. After everything I’ve read , all the examples of delusions that people have, I developed similar thought patterns. Some random neighbour would greet me with “hello” and i would think “wait, what if that person has some hidden meaning towards me in his mind?”. Which literally puts me in another anxiety attack, because I am terrified why would I consider such thing, why would even such a thought pass my mind as it is absolutely irrational. It’s been 2 months now. My sleep has greatly improved generally. The obsession comes and goes. Sometimes I will be happy and obsession free for days, laughing at my previous experiences and thinking it won’t come back. Then it comes back again for a few days causing me extreme distress. I lose my appetite again, lose motivation and enjoyment in life. In those days only very pleasurable activities with friends bring me out of this, sometimes completely and for hours I forget about it. I am almost 27 years old male. No family history of mental illnesses of any sort, no drug use of any sort, and most of all not a single similar experience of any sort my whole life. Quite the opposite. I was the most happy, motivated , cheerful and funny person in my circle. Except for a depression episode 12 years ago when I moved to a new city with my family, my life has been always very satisfying. 3 different psychologists told me that I can be sure I don’t have psychosis and it is GAD or ocd combined with medium depression. I’ve also went to a psychiatrist who didn’t quite have the time to listen to everything i wanted to say (for example the delusional thoughts) and he told me that nothing could happen from one time overdosing any drug. He pointed my age to be way above the age in which people get psychotic illnesses and said that I would have shown many signs of such much earlier in my life. I called him later that day for reassurance and he told me that he has more than 40 years of practice and is specialised in diagnosis of psychotic illnesses. He said he would have known if something isn’t right minutes after I’ve entered the room. He told me to remember this: “ i am absolutely and undoubtedly sure that the isn’t even a slightest chance of such thing”. This helped me get out of the circle for more than a week. And then I’ve read about prodrome and freaked out again.
What do you think guys? Anyone suffered or suffering from a similar situation? Any advices? I go to gym every day and see my friends all the time, i hate being alone. I started to regain some part of my motivation to work (much more to be regained as I am very motivated usually).

Okay so I don't want people spamming " if u battery backup, go for AMD and if u want performance go for Intel". I know AMD has better efficiency compared to Intel.
Here the context. I want to buy a laptop. I came across this laptops series Asus Tuf gaming which has all I need. But I am stuck between AMD or Intel. The tuf gaming A15 or F15 (2023) are identical expect the processor. 7735HS or 12700H. I clearly want good performance but the efficiency part is confusing me. I know Intel will get me less battery backup but I want to know how much? According to a review on YouTube, the amd laptop can playback videos about 10+hrs and the the Intel version doesn't have any reviews for the particular model( if someone finds please let me know). Btw both will be paired with a rtx 4060
Ok so here the question comes, why do I care about that extra 10-15% cpu performance? Well the answer is is quiet simple. I want the absolute best performance I can get in my budget and those 14 cores (although 8 of them are e-cores) might actually be for my college workload and overall future proof. I am planning to learn development and stuff and as per my research Intel chips are better at it(15% atleast compared to AMD competitor and that matters a lot). Everything looks good on Intel side expect the battery, afaik Intel isn't good on low wattages which it will run on battery. But at the same time I'll plugin in the laptop at the time of workload.
I might compromise that extra performance if the battery backup difference from AMD is a lot like for video playback test where AMD gets 10+hrs and if Intel goes below 9hrs or in general use 1-1.5 hrs less battery backup than AMD.
I know might sound stupid to some but I am stuck in this stupid situation. Basically I am confused.
So according to you which option should I go for. Point to be notes that AMD version isn't released yet in my country so I have to wait for it though I don't have issues waiting.
So what I want to know is how bad Intel with be in battery backup compared to AMD and will the compromise of performance be worth it?

Okay so I don't want people spamming " if u battery backup, go for AMD and if u want performance go for Intel". I know AMD has better efficiency compared to Intel.
Here the context. I want to buy a laptop. I came across this laptops series Asus Tuf gaming which has all I need. But I am stuck between AMD or Intel. The tuf gaming A15 or F15 (2023) are identical expect the processor. 7735HS or 12700H. I clearly want good performance but the efficiency part is confusing me. I know Intel will get me less battery backup but I want to know how much? According to a review on YouTube, the amd laptop can playback videos about 10+hrs and the the Intel version doesn't have any reviews for the particular model( if someone finds please let me know). Btw both will be paired with a rtx 4060
Ok so here the question comes, why do I care about that extra 10-15% cpu performance? Well the answer is is quiet simple. I want the absolute best performance I can get in my budget and those 14 cores (although 8 of them are e-cores) might actually be for my college workload and overall future proof. I am planning to learn development and stuff and as per my research Intel chips are better at it(15% atleast compared to AMD competitor and that matters a lot). Everything looks good on Intel side expect the battery, afaik Intel isn't good on low wattages which it will run on battery. But at the same time I'll plugin in the laptop at the time of workload.
I might compromise that extra performance if the battery backup difference from AMD is a lot like for video playback test where AMD gets 10+hrs and if Intel goes below 9hrs or in general use 1-1.5 hrs less battery backup than AMD.
I know might sound stupid to some but I am stuck in this stupid situation. Basically I am confused.
So according to you which option should I go for. Point to be notes that AMD version isn't released yet in my country so I have to wait for it though I don't have issues waiting.
So what I want to know is how bad Intel with be in battery backup compared to AMD and will the compromise of performance be worth it?

I work on PoC for shared lib for mobile apps and deciding between gomobile vs Rust static lib. Decided to compare download speed and found that Rust's reqwest is slower than Go's http.Client and iOS' URLSession. It was unexpected.
Benchmarked by downloading 5MB image from wiki. Each benchmark was 100 time download of the image. Did literally thousands of downloads in different day of the week and different time of the day. Benchmarked from cable-connected mac to avoid Wi-Fi interference. While benchmarking did nothing on mac. Measured only actual time of download without FFI overheads.
Maybe I did something wrong? Especially disappointed in P99 stat.
Results:
Go Swift Rust
Median 532ms 539ms 545ms
Avg 538ms 548ms 558ms
P90 568ms 579ms 594ms
P99 621ms 1001ms 1003ms
Tried to make code as similar as possible.
Code:
Rust ```rust lazy_static! { static ref CLIENT: reqwest::blocking::Client = reqwest::blocking::Client::builder() .user_agent("APP_USER_AGENT") .connect_timeout(std::time::Duration::new(10, 0)) .pool_max_idle_per_host(10) .build() .unwrap(); }

[no_mangle]

pub extern "C" fn rust_download_image() -> *mut RustByteSlice { let download_start = std::time::Instant::now(); let data = fetch_url(String::from(IMAGE_URL)); let download_elapsed = download_start.elapsed(); // ... }
fn fetchurl(url: String) -> Vec { let result = CLIENT.get(url) .send() .unwrap() .bytes(); let data = match result { Ok(data) => { let data: Result>, _> = data.bytes().collect(); data.unwrap() }, Err(error) => { println!("cant get image bytes. error: {}", error); Vec::new() }, }; data } ```
Go ```go var ( t = func() http.RoundTripper { t := http.DefaultTransport.(*http.Transport).Clone() t.MaxIdleConns = 10 t.MaxConnsPerHost = 10 t.MaxIdleConnsPerHost = 10 t.IdleConnTimeout = 10 * time.Second t.DisableKeepAlives = false return t }()

httpClient = &http.Client{ Timeout: 15 * time.Second, Transport: t, } 

)
func DownloadImage() { downloadStart := time.Now()

req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", imageURL, nil) if err != nil { return } req = req.WithContext(context.Background()) response, err := httpClient.Do(req) if err != nil { return } defer response.Body.Close() if response.StatusCode != http.StatusOK { return } data, err := io.ReadAll(response.Body) if err != nil { return } downloadTimeElapsed := time.Since(downloadStart) // ... 

} ```
Swift ```swift private let networkSession: URLSession = { let configuration = URLSessionConfiguration.default configuration.networkServiceType = .responsiveData configuration.httpMaximumConnectionsPerHost = 10 configuration.httpShouldUsePipelining = true let session = URLSession(configuration: configuration) return session }()
func nativeDownloadImage() { let downloadTimeStart = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent() let url = URL(string: "url")! let request = URLRequest(url: url, cachePolicy: .reloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData, timeoutInterval: 15.0)

let dataTask = networkSession.dataTask(with: request) { [weak self] data, _, _ in guard let data = data else { return } let downloadTimeElapsed = Double(CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent() - downloadTimeStart) * 1000 // ... } dataTask.resume() 

} ```