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dorkypunkon Java 27

Most organizations that use Java tend to be pretty conservative with their technology picks and nowadays with newer Java versions the only real gap with Kotlin is null-safety which is supposed to also come to Java at some point. There is also an organization culture component most of the time, one our engineers actually proposed to use Kotlin for one of the new projects but it got rejected because "We are a Java shop"

dorkypunkon Java 27

When you are already familiar with it or work in a Java shop, there are better options if you are starting from scratch, but if you already have 50 guys that know Java it's a pretty big ask for all of them to switch.

dorkypunkon Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model

There are models that do that, for example the Olmo family of models, although they have Gemma 3 performance levels for that matter.

dorkypunkon Cerebras CS-4

What you describe is basically Cerebras case, at the bottom it's just a really big die (about x28 an NVIDIA GB200) with a lot of work to reduce memory latency and improve throughput. What it's actually amazing is how can they make a chip so big and still have a decent yield to be commercially viable.

dorkypunkon 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

I've also argued this on the past, it just seems redundant, but people eat the VPN ads like they were gospel.

dorkypunkon Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan

Wouldn't this just be the same as any other fabless company?

dorkypunkon Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

dorkypunkon MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities

I'm still laughing on how the error handling for tools is done, it's just a boolean field IsError.

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/ser...

dorkypunkon VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT

Because they don't have exclusive control, unlike social media where you can't take your data and move it to another provider, you can just take your repo to whichever provider or self-hosted GitOps option you want.

dorkypunkon Migrating from AWS to Hetzner

Then you have to replace those professionals with even more specialized and expensive professionals in order be able to deploy anything.

dorkypunkon How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?

Because they are used to the even insaner markup of smaller retailers that would ask 10USD for an IC that cost 5 cents at bulk

dorkypunkon The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe

Probably architecture changes (x86 has a lot of historic baggage that difficults newer designs) and also more specialized hardware in the CPU, probably this might also be one of the reasons Apple went this way with the M Silicon

dorkypunkon Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end

Does it really matter? i've run Minecraft servers with Coretto 21 on Arm and had no issues at all even with the weird setup

dorkypunkon Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

Could pumped-storage batteries help in that case?

dorkypunkon Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

dorkypunkon Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

Relevant: https://xkcd.com/927/