desertlounger

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by desertlounger 3y ago
Classic!
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by desertlounger 3y ago
How does a constellation become "obsolete"?
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by desertlounger 3y ago
FWIW, javascript:// bookmarklets don't work on the standard Chrome home / new tab page, but data URL bookmarklets work everywhere. Here's my bookmarklet for Day Of Year... data:text/html,<script>now=new D
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by desertlounger 3y ago
The reference is to a previous licensing change, which made it less free, with Oracle shaking down groups using the Oracle JDK. They've changed their terms before and could do so again with future releases.
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by desertlounger 3y ago
src/main/java is a convention that started with Maven; it's simple to change in the project build file (pom.xml). Otherwise, it's due to the fact that a package namespace in Java must correspond to a directory tree.
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by desertlounger 3y ago
lossless? large sizes? multi-band (> 3) data? transparency? animation? I work in software support of scientific imaging, and jpeg-xl looks to be the only format to date that supports those features in addition to excellent compression an
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by desertlounger 4y ago
Yes. And with "records" (record classes, something with the characteristics of a tuple or struct) you can get further away from getter/setter boilerplate code.
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by desertlounger 4y ago
AFAIK Java was GPL'd by Sun (before the Oracle purchase). This resulted in the OpenJDK, which is the basis for all distributions of Java. Oracle is a big contributor to the development, but so are many others. You can get a pure OpenJD
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by desertlounger 4y ago
Can't help but think that both would look a lot better w/ text-align: justify on paragraphs.
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by desertlounger 4y ago
And if you write "polyglot" html (html written as syntactically correct xml) then you can use xpath or other tools to extract data from it (i.e. from tables).
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by desertlounger 6y ago
I always thought it is because our eyes are arranged horizontally and not vertically...
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by desertlounger 6y ago
I write a lot of Java, and like checked exceptions. The problem is rather the opposite, basically all of the concrete exception classes that you might think to use (e.g. IllegalArgumentException) are unchecked!
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by desertlounger 6y ago
Since Java 8, there are two ways to build a binary: the javapackager tool, and the Ant JavaFX tasks (with the OpenJDK, install the openjfx package). It'll include the JRE [~50MB], and there are pros and cons with that obviously.