> No gametes, no offspring. Unless you do it like wild dandelion, which despite being unable to reproduce just tells you "Yeah, you know what, f... off!" and simply goes agamosperm, reproducing anyway. But for an animal, that's reasonably unlikely to happen.

I always liked dandelions.

@Hosch250 And they can be used as a food source...

@AndyD273 I yanked so many out of my yard this weekend that I could have made salad for 40 people.

I usually just leave mine. early food source for the bees, and they don't bother me all that much

@AndyD273 You're a bad person and you should feel bad about it.

@James I mean, we're all in this chatroom, so that statement kinda applies to everyone as a baseline.

@Gryphon Not killing your dandelions is a whole nother level of evil.

@James Fair point. All we do is unleash evil AI and Eldritch Horrors onto the world.

@James Killing dandelions is like killing babies.

I'm going to have a garden of dandelions.

Also of creeping charlie and other mints.

@Hosch250 starts discreetly trying to figure out how to hire a hit man

@James I can live with this

But I also live out in the country.

@Gryphon I've heard 4chan is pretty good.

@Hosch250 I'm fairly sure that phrase has never been uttered before.

Also, we haven't had a single dandelion pop up in our yard yet, so it's kind of a moot point

@Gryphon Am I being original then? Also, I've never visited 4chan. I've just heard it's good for hiring hit men on.

@Hosch250 I thought that was the silk road?

@Hosch250 I'm just pretty sure nobody has ever said "4chan is pretty good" before.

@AndyD273 That too, but they shut that down.

I have never actually visited it either, though.

This question is in dire need of feedback. I spent some time editing it, but I can't work without a direction

@Gryphon /r/BrandNewSetences

@NexTerren r/PunPolice is funny.

Half of them hate puns, and the other half because they want to share great puns with the rest of the world.

There's a constant mild fight going on.

Between today and last Friday, I axed a second or few off the page load time of our site to get it fast enough to move to Azure (we're having trouble with the config, but we're almost fast enough for our metrics, so we decided to look at an obvious spot--our bad code).

And the irritating thing is, this should have been done years ago.

We could've had an average load of 1 second instead of 3, probably.

The longest load was 20ms with my change in one spot, compared to 850ms without it.

Median with it is 2, and median before was about 200.

The other call, I dropped from about 3 seconds to below 1 second.

This is with the debug flag set, so the boost won't be quite as visible in prod, but it'll be huge either way.

Our site will almost certainly end up faster on Azure than it ever was here, and we'll not stop tuning it.

(One other thing is, we're currently, unintentionally, running a pirated version of SQL Server Enterprise now, but are going to the cheaper version with this move. One of our hosting providers upgraded us and refused to bring us back down, even though we don't have a license for it. I don't know the details, but basically, we own the software on our systems, but we pay another company to manage it, which seems weird to me--especially since they break things more than they fix things.)

SQL Server Enterprise has several performance features that the other one doesn't, so that might be part of the performance hit we're seeing.

@Hosch250 I've never actually been to the Subreddit, but I've seen the comments. Might have to pay them a visit.

It looks like our site is more than twice as fast now.

I just compared our dev (debug-build) to our stage (release build) sites on a page that's about similar. 5.2 (dev) to 12.4 (stage) seconds. Building in release build should cut a couple seconds off.

Good job with the improvements!

@Hosch250 Great work. That's really impressive.