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James Gosling on Java: Historical Oddities and Persistent Itches (JVMLS 2024)(youtube.com)
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by cempaka 2y ago
Ecosystem effects are definitely important to C++'s dominance in HFT, but it's also a domain where a lot of the guarantees Rust offers just aren't all that relevant. From a security perspective most code always runs in sandbo
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The glimmer framework also has an interesting approach there.
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The Investing Cult Fueling MicroStrategy's Ascent: 'Have Fun Staying Poor'(wsj.com)
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Chrystia Freeland Resigns, Threatening Trudeau's Hold on Power(nytimes.com)
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QCon SF 2024: Refactoring Large, Stubborn Codebases(infoq.com)
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by cempaka 2y ago
> You can say that shouldn't be a factor, that (parents of) children should only have to consider the cost-benefit for their children directly. I'd reply that that's selfish. Then you would demonstrate that your sense of
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by cempaka 2y ago
The only trials that they ran, in very small numbers of around a few thousand children, did not even attempt to demonstrate a clinical benefit to children, because SARS-CoV-2 was already such a mild illness for them it would have been impos
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by cempaka 2y ago
mRNA vaccines are absolutely weird and different -- their mechanism of prompting an immune response is fundamentally different as it involves prompting the vaccinee's own cells to manufacture antigens. Even if they weren't weird a
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by cempaka 2y ago
Were thousands of the children for whom the FDA issued emergency use authorizations for COVID vaccines dying from COVID every day?
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by cempaka 2y ago
Sending out not-so-subtle "hints" to pharmacies not to fill prescriptions for off-label uses of a particular drug, and encouraging medical boards to discipline doctors who write such prescriptions, is exactly the same thing as &qu
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by cempaka 2y ago
There's a pic floating around out there of Brock Pierce shaking Merrick Garland's hand at the White House.
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Yes you're correct, the idea is that they're not adding any keywords or bytecodes, just some new standard lib APIs that will get some special treatment by the JVM.
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The basic feature set is at-most-once thread-safe initialization of values, which can then enjoy the same constant folding and other JIT optimizations one would get from `static final`, but can be initialized at any point during the program
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by cempaka 2y ago
Even this is soft pedaling it a bit. A bunch of soccer hooligans chanting genocidal slogans got their teeth kicked in.
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Perhaps it's in bad taste to Westerners who've imbibed a steady stream of atrocity propaganda about October 7, which avoids acknowledging that many of those killed and captured were legitimate military targets. By all accounts the
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by cempaka 2y ago
According to Israel's own figures 393 of the 1139 killed on October 7 were active duty military, so it's certainly possible to construct a game mission around it which does not involve actively hunting down civilians.
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by cempaka 2y ago
Yeah we just have any linter failures fail the CI build, but it's left up to submitters to decide how to resolve the violations.
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by cempaka 2y ago
And Java will soon have StableValue: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8312611
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by cempaka 2y ago
It's funny that the wildly overestimated IFRs like 3.4%, which were taken as gospel in the early days of the pandemic and drove the actual policy of sweeping shutdowns of schools, preventive medical care, and the economy at large -- a
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by cempaka 2y ago
I think one hangup for a lot of people here is that they picture the mechanics as having to be something like "the CIA groomed Frankfurt School writers as witting agents from birth" when in reality, it's more like these guys
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"The CIA and the Frankfurt School's Anti-Communism": https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-scho...
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by cempaka 2y ago
Yeah there's a JEP around deprecating access to sun.misc.Unsafe, but that's part of a larger effort including Jigsaw to push the Java ecosystem in the direction of modular builds, where more invariants are assumed to hold (e.g. &q
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Trump pick Lutnick's firm in talks with Tether for $2B Bitcoin lending project(reuters.com)
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Musk and Ramaswamy build a 'DOGE' team to go to war with Washington(washingtonpost.com)
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by cempaka 2y ago
> ability to modify code at runtime Would Java's moves towards "integrity by default" mean that this could be ruled out in more cases?
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by cempaka 2y ago
Sounds like you're agreeing that the article describes Louk's captors as "rapists" without evidence?
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by cempaka 2y ago
Yeah in Java land specifically I think the question would become, "does the generational hypothesis still hold up once we have Valhalla and a much larger share of short-lived objects are stack allocated as value types?" but of cou
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I'm an erstwhile techno-optimist who was disabused of his Panglossian views by the Utah Data Center, drone warfare (now advanced to the point of remotely piloted rifles gunning people down on the streets of Gaza), crypto ponzis, AI enc
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by cempaka 2y ago
> There was no context, no history Well the header at least offers an accurate disclaimer as to the general state of October 7 discourse. Naturally, the author launches immediately in the first paragraph into lurid tales of rape unsupp

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