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kasperni
1y ago
Why not post the original story instead. https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-is-the-fastest-way...
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I saw this comment the other day on Reddit, and I think it sums up the current state pretty well. > Last month my parents decided to invest their extra cash into “AI” by paying a broker to buy “the AI stocks” they keep hearing about on t
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> But the codebases you encounter written in it, particularly in the enterprise, are often horrible. Not sure they are worse than other languages?
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1y ago
> many people will tell you that the standard library is not as performant such as?
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This was a known issue and was fixed in Java 24 [1]. [1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/491
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Incidentally, the Danish state is also the majority shareholder of Ørsted, whose wind farm off Rhode Island was halted the other day [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/25/rsted-sh..
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For Java 25 which is planned to be released in a couple of weeks: ----- https://openjdk.org/jeps/512 ----- First, we allow main methods to omit the infamous boilerplate of public static void main(String[] args), which
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> the answer is technical inertia (or technical debt, if you will) One of the issues. There are number of others. For example, VAT is a value-based tax. A VAT cut gives the biggest savings to people who spend the most. Since wealthier pe
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Smartwatches offer little insight into stress levels, researchers find
(theguardian.com)
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> Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; Really? Is this just an American thing?
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Any browser, its just a web app.
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1y ago
You still need to do some kind of yearly accounts for your business. And you will most likely need an accountant for that. But the actual tax filing is fairly simply.
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Yeah, and everyone will know you did it for the money.
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Until they saw the stock market...
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Lots of potential, but also a big risk of OpenAI/Anthropic/Google releasing an update in 6 months that will kill your product.
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With the current speed of AI progress. We are probably 1 or 2 years away from any generic AI being able to teach languages better than Duolingo.
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> No. The damage to Tesla's reputation has already been done, and the only way to fix it is for the board to fire Elon Musk as CEO. Maybe in the USA. But I don't think it would make much of a difference in a lot of countries. I
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Try going to a heavy polluted city, something like Delhi in the Winter. You would honestly have no doubt about how bad it is for you health. Because you will feel it within the first 24 hours.
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> It’s been proposed, but is stuck behind Valhalla. It is actually a central part of Valhalla now [1]. [1] https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/
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2y ago
https://openjdk.org/jeps/486 goes into detail about the motivation for removing support for Security Manager.
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They are asking Denmark as well [1]… All your eggs and Greenland are belong to us! [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/trump-egg-pr...
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Just as defence spending is measured as % of GDP for fairness, aid should be too. America's absolute dollar contributions look impressive until you consider its massive economy. And when you look at it as % of GDP, America's contr
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> when the reality seems to be that only the US was ever willing to do it, Americans have been brainwashed to believe that they are solely funding the rest of the world. Lots of countries provide a lot more per capita than the US [1] in
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From the astronauts themselves: "We don’t feel abandoned, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded.” [1] [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/13/science/boeing-starliner-...
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Love it
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Are there any other countries where everyone is suing everyone left and right. Or is this mainly a US thing?
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> I think it’s bad that she defrauded so many people but still has massive enough cash that she’s paying a PR firm while she’s in prison. Pretty sure she doesn't have any money herself as she has been declared insolvent. However, he
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Not surprising when universities have been declared the enemy [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Cifnhw
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Drill, baby, drill. Greenland contains some of the largest earth earth mineral deposits in the world. And the US needs them desperately. The strategic importance is just a decoy. The US could put as many bases they wanted just by asking nic
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Trump declines to rule out using military to control Greenland, Panama Canal
(theguardian.com)
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