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US typically has the whole office with UPS and diesel generators (if it is important enough to do so).

yeah - they took forever, one reason being that Sun was in financial troubles and then acquisition took a long time.

Second was about licensing and Apache Harmony.

So, eventually they dropped most of the big things that were planned - Project Lambda with closures, Project Jigsaw with modularisation, Collection Literals. They eventually came back, but took a while to implement, so it was a prudent decision to make.

it wasn't about Oracle trimming the fat. Java 8 took 3 years to release and then Java 9 another 3 years.

They had to commit to half a year release cycles and LTRs every 2 years. Since then the releases became a lot more predictable. Whatever is not ready is not released (or is there as a preview feature).

This more agile approach is a lot better in my experience and we see that the changes made are more relevant and what people actually want.

the release cycle time was a deliberate choice.

Java tried to do fairly large updates and sometimes the release cycle would be very unpredictable as things would slip and take much longer than anticipated.

So to make it more predictable and to keep updates coming they switched to 6 months cadence with long term support (LTS) every two years.

This I think is a pretty good way of doing things, makes people who plan things figure out how to split feature development into these 6 months cycles, it made JEPs more granular and I think it made project Valhalla possible, if they tried doing it the old way it would never happen.

Splitting things in small chunks clarified what needs to be done and the path forward. It still takes very long time, but doesn't cause big incompatible changes and I think overall Java has good progress without being stalled.

first - it's not hard to make. Outside screen size doesn't have to be half of the open screen.

second - main idea is about proportions, if you want to design apps that seamlessly transfer from one screen to another they have to have the same proportions of the sides. This is not a given and depends on the height and width.

If you take iPhone 18 Pro resolution : 2,622 x 1,206 doubling it would make the screen with 2,622 x 2,412 - almost a square screen.

They chose to have the folded phone to have 1.4:1 aspect ratio which is consistent when folded and when unfolded.

that's not how AI was used in this case. It's more like a professor with assistants.

Professor says the assistants - why don't you dig in this direction, I have a hunch it might produce something valuable. And AI assistant does just that, proving or disproving a hunch. This would take the professor a lot of time if doing by themselves.

they threw it on all the millenial math problems (I think there are 6 at this point unsolved, well, 5 now).

And according to them at some point they saw that one was close to being solved, so they pointed all the agents at it.

The same thing happens to humans - at this time there are no simple problems left, so solving the hard ones requires using prior knowledge and attempts at solving things.

not really castles - it includes palaces for examples and chateaus.

not in Rust. might be different enough ...

what happened to the Jonny Ive and them purchasing his agency?

6.5 billions paid, nothing so far, this was such a sus transaction, sounded like the way to get money out of OpenAI.

I think instead of "be concise" you could tell it how long the answer should be. I.e. give the answer in one paragraph. Or in 10 lines max.

At least before it would listen to instructions like this.

Because 1 angstrom equals 10⁻¹⁰ meters and 1 picometer equals 10⁻¹² meters, the relationship is:

1 Å = 100 pm. 1 pm = 0.01 Å.

they are paying for marketshare/customer base. Cursor has a good chunk of it.

xAI overbuilt their data centers - they can't find paying customers for them, that's the reason they made deals with other companies like Google to use their own datacenters.

Cursor has the opposite problem of not having enough capacity. So this works well for them together.

Weather it's worth it - if you beleive that AI will solve every problem then having a piece of the pie early on might be worth it.

Remember how when google bought youtube for 1.65 billions people thought they are crazy? Or when facebook bought instagram.

60B is a crazy number but might be worth it for someone fighting for world dominance :)

welcome to Norton Commander! Or Far Manager for more modern version.

I think another thing that affects security is that in javascript culture people often tie to the latest version instead of concrete version.

This makes it so an update to a popular library can compromise a huge number of packages that depend on it.

In Java for example almost all packages specify a concrete version, even if someone compromises the latest the blast radius is usually pretty small.

it's because people work (and use GitHub) a lot more on weekdays. A lot of outages are load related.

they said, podcasts had 12 million downloads. 750k weekly at the moment.

They get people listening. And when you download you don't know it will be crap AI slop.

I now get a bunch of this in youtube - just endless drivel about some theme I am interested in. They create so much crap it's hard to see which one is real. I started banning the accounts that are making AI crap, but there are so many now.

If you read what happened it's not that cut&dry. Railway (their cloud provider) gave them a token for operations. The AI was working on staging at the moment. Since the token had wide range permissions AI used it in it's routine operations to delete a volume to fix something and this resulted in their prod and backup data deletion.

So, here at least some of the blame belongs to Railway - how they organized their security, how the volume deletion deletes backups as well.

They since fixed some of these issues, so a similar mistake from someone won't be as catastrophic.

one of the biggest health problems in US is obesity. 30 to 40% of the food produced in US goes to waste.

Just these two facts will tell you that while, yes, we do need food to live, but on another hand we have an abundance of food and if AI data centers use 0.05% of the water used for humans.

It's a strawman.

you said that English is not your first language, so heads up - you don't need "for" when you use "e.g.", it already means "for example".

just take up smoking heavily

EU doesn't forbid including. The new law requires there to be an option without the adapter. If the manufacturer chooses so they can have an option with and without the adapter.

I logged in several times to other people's accounts and reset their passwords. But it's too tiring, people keep adding my email.

I hope it's because I have small simple email and not because they want to steal it.

if you look at Mac Mini design, it didn't change much in many years (2011-2024 is practically the same)

https://preview.redd.it/always-loved-the-design-of-the-mac-m...

so maybe that's the reason they chose it. They just designed a new iteration in 2024, so maybe they don't expect much change for a while.

both are pretty big numbers and I think are pretty capable to do mass manufacturing. As evidenced by many industries that US had and still has.

it could be less economical, so Apple has to innovate to be competitive on pricing - with automation, robots, etc.

China had 92 space launches in 2025, so they can make space screws I presume.

they have to open the envelope to see what's inside - they get mail that is not ideas and they have to open it.

But I assume the people who get the mail are trained to see if the envelope contains ideas to stop reading and return the mail with the canned lawyer response.

you can get a lifetime fan just by replying to a letter - like you see here. That's a very effective marketing.

I got a rejection letter once from a company I submitted my resume to (online) and I still remember that and in a positive light even though it was a rejection.

Now they just ghost you even if you went through 5 rounds of interviews and spend a bunch of your time.

Notepad++ might be too much for a simple utility.

Plus for many years Word was one of the main cash cows for MS, so they didn't want to make an editor that would take away from Word.

And you could see how adding new things adds vulnerabilities. In this case they added ability to see/render markdown and with markdown they render links, which in this case allowed executing remote code when user clicks on a link.

I noticed significant slowdown on my home computer, so I did some optimization - namely turning off some services.

AI related things, one drive (this could be one of the reasons file browser is slow), widgets on the screen like news and weather, some other optional/not needed things.

They added a lot of not needed crap to File Manager. I think it's almost better to install a third party one.