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joegreenon Java 25 officially released

I was really surprised to find out that the support for the STR string templates that was added as a preview feature in Java 21 was completely removed in Java 23 and there is no replacement at all.

joegreenon Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start

That paper was an interesting read :) I googled a bit about it and found possible explanation https://replicationindex.com/2018/01/05/bem-retraction/

joegreenon Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match

Is there a time limit for each player?

joegreenon WTF? I cannot cancel my NYTimes subscription online?

I was surprised that they didn't implement a "cancel" button too. Probably a strategy to discourage people from cancelling. I've managed to cancel using a chat though and it wasn't that bad.

joegreenon Switch to OpenStreetMap

Highly upvoted article about drawbacks of OSM. I think it's worth mentioning here to give another perspective https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394604

joegreenon Use plaintext email

I would like to read more details about "The former is strongly preferred". Why is plain text preferred and by whom?

joegreenon Everything, find files and folders instantly on Windows

Funny, I've seen Nirsoft windows utilities on the front page and I thought that it might be a good idea to post a link to "Everything" too. I wanted to check if someone already posted it to hackernews and I found this submission made "2 hours ago" :)

joegreenon Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)

Your comment made me wonder how services like archive.org that automatically save forum posts that may contain personal information are going to deal with GDPR.

joegreenon Stephen Hawking has died

I could not find any source telling he had anything in common with this song.

joegreenon ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit

Thanks a lot for Miranda, I'm using it since 2006 I think. I don't rely so heavily on it as I used to, probably because of popularity of facebook and mobile chat applications, but I still find it useful :-) I started using a fork http://www.miranda-ng.org some time ago, which seems to be more actively developed.

joegreenon Regex that only matches itself

It also reminded me about quines, I especially like the Quine Relay project which uses 100 different programming languages (each producing an input for the next one) to finally produce its own code https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

joegreenon Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer?

Well, I don't have similar experiences with SO. Sometimes I feel that easy questions are being answered very quickly by many people because everyone wants to get reputation points quickly, but difficult questions are often left unanswered forever as they require a lot of effort and don't bring as much reputation to the answerer (as their potential audience is not so wide).

joegreenon Machine learning for financial prediction

If anyone else is getting errors when loading the page, here's the google cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-ciyXfS...

joegreenon Ask HN: Why are comment trees not collapsible yet?

And there's also a browser-agnostic bookmarklet https://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for...

joegreenon Ask HN: Are any startups working on text-to-speech?

I've just tried playing "Your account has a balance of 100 dollars and 95 cents" on https://www.ivona.com/us/ and it seems quite natural to me (but I'm not a native english speaker so I may not be sensitive).

joegreenon Ask HN: Things you created in 2015?

I've always wanted to create at least a small working Java library that could be potentially useful to someone and put it into the Maven Central repository to learn the whole process. I've finally managed to do it in 2015 by creating the LambdaFromString[0] library that can convert a string with code to Java 8 lambda at runtime :-) Surely not a rocket science, but still makes me feel a little bit proud.

[0]: https://github.com/greenjoe/lambdaFromString

joegreenon Node.js running in the new Airbus A350 inflight servers

Thus the "Fast-forward 20 years" part :-)

joegreenon Node.js running in the new Airbus A350 inflight servers

Fast-forward 20 years, a plane crashes, they find and open the black box and in the flight logs they can see the cause clearly:

"undefined is not a function".

joegreenon [dead]

Something similar: tracert -h 255 xmas.futile.net

   21  ooooxooooooxooo.V.ooooooxooooxoooo [82.133.91.37]
   22  ooxoooooxooooo.MMM.ooooooooxxoooxo [82.133.91.18]
   23  oooxoooooxooo.EEEEE.oooxoooooxoooo [82.133.91.63]
   24  ooooxooxooox.RRRRRRR.ooooooxooooox [82.133.91.56]
   25  oxooooooxoo.RRRRRRRRR.oooxooooooxo [82.133.91.55]
   26  xoooxooooo.YYYYYYYYYYY.oooxooooxoo [82.133.91.58]
   27  ooxoooooxooooo.CCC.ooooooooxoooxoo [82.133.91.96]
   28  oooooxooo.HHHHHHHHHHHHH.oxoooxoooo [82.133.91.23]
   29  ooxooxoo.RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.ooxoooxoo [82.133.91.49]
   30  oxoooxo.IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.oooxooxo [82.133.91.60]
   31  oooxoo.SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.ooxoooo [82.133.91.42]
   32  oooxoooxoooooo.TTT.ooooooooooooxoo [82.133.91.61]
   33  ooxoo.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.oooxo [82.133.91.34]
   34  xxoo.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.oxoo [82.133.91.80]
   35  oxo.SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.ooo [82.133.91.40]
   36  ooxooooooooooo.XXX.oooooooooooooxo [82.133.91.35]
   37  oxoooooooooooo.XXX.ooooooooooooxxo [82.133.91.10]
   38  Oh.the.weather.outside.is.frightful [82.133.91.41]
   39  But.the.fire.is.so.delightful [82.133.91.19]
   40  And.since.weve.no.place.to.go [82.133.91.77]
   41  Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow [82.133.91.43]
   42  xXx [82.133.91.24]
   43  It.doesnt.show.signs.of.stopping [82.133.91.36]
   44  And.Ive.bought.some.corn.for.popping [82.133.91.73]
   45  The.lights.are.turned.way.down.low [82.133.91.76]
   46  Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow [82.133.91.67]
   47  xXx [82.133.91.38]
   48  When.we.finally.kiss.good.night [82.133.91.62]
   49  How.Ill.hate.going.out.in.the.storm [82.133.91.45]
   50  But.if.youll.really.hold.me.tight [82.133.91.78]
   51  All.the.way.home.Ill.be.warm [82.133.91.17]
   52  xXx [82.133.91.70]
   53  The.fire.is.slowly.dying [82.133.91.95]
   54  And.my.dear.were.still.goodbying [82.133.91.57]
   55  But.as.long.as.you.love.me.so [82.133.91.31]
   56  Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow [82.133.91.53]
   57  oOo [82.133.91.94]
   58  Ho.Ho.Ho.Are.We.Having.Fun.Yet [82.133.91.64]
   59  M.E.R.R.Y.C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S [82.133.91.86]
   60  oOo [82.133.91.15]
   61  Dashing.through.the.snow [82.133.91.14]
   62  In.a.one-horse.open.sleigh [82.133.91.83]
   63  Over.the.fields.we.go [82.133.91.27]
   64  Laughing.all.the.way [82.133.91.71]
   65  Bells.on.bobtail.ring [82.133.91.79]
   66  Making.spirits.bright [82.133.91.75]
   67  What.fun.it.is.to.ride.and.sing [82.133.91.82]
   68  A.sleighing.song.tonight [82.133.91.98]
   69  oOo [82.133.91.29]
   70  Jingle.bells.jingle.bells [82.133.91.91]
   71  Jingle.all.the.way [82.133.91.81]
   72  Oh.what.fun.it.is.to.ride [82.133.91.21]
   73  In.a.one-horse.open.sleigh [82.133.91.30]
   74  Jingle.bells.jingle.bells [82.133.91.59]
   75  Jingle.all.the.way [82.133.91.32]
   76  Oh.what.fun.it.is.to.ride [82.133.91.74]
   77  In.a.one-horse.open.sleigh [82.133.91.87]
   78  M-E-R-R-Y--C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S [82.133.91.72]
   79  Have.yourself.a.merry.little.Christmas [82.133.91.90]
   80  Let.your.heart.be.light [82.133.91.47]
   81  From.now.on [82.133.91.12]
   82  our.troubles.will.be.out.of.sight [82.133.91.99]
   83  oOo [82.133.91.22]
   84  Have.yourself.a.merry.little.Christmas [82.133.91.68]
   85  Make.the.Yule-tide.gay [82.133.91.52]
   86  From.now.on [82.133.91.66]
   87  our.troubles.will.be.miles.away [82.133.91.54]
   88  oOo [82.133.91.93]
   89  Here.we.are.as.in.olden.days [82.133.91.25]
   90  Happy.golden.days.of.yore [82.133.91.89]
   91  Faithful.friends.who.are.dear.to.us [82.133.91.46]
   92  Gather.near.to.us.once.more [82.133.91.69]
   93  oOo [82.133.91.85]
   94  Through.the.years [82.133.91.39]
   95  We.all.will.be.together [82.133.91.33]
   96  If.the.Fates.allow [82.133.91.44]
   97  Hang.a.shining.star.upon.the.highest.bough [82.133.91.97]
   98  And.have.yourself.A.merry.little.Christmas.now [82.133.91.88]
   99  o.O [82.133.91.11]
   100  48.61.70.70.79.20.48.6f.6c.69.64.61.79.73.20.46.72.65.65.6e.6f.64.65.20.23.63.69.73.63.6f [82.133.91.51]
   101  oOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo.MyssT.oOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo [77.75.106.106]

joegreenon Show HN: Kiddo Paint

Windows + Firefox => looks like cars don't work - some icons are not visible and all of them are just creating rectangles in the picture http://snag.gy/4fm3H.jpg

joegreenon I miss Lisp

"forgetting to add brackets when expanding a single-line if clause (and Eclipse will nag me about unnecessary brackets if I try to play it safe)" - I believe that putting every if clause's body (even one-liners) inside brackets in Java is a good practice and I have never seen Eclipse telling it's bad.

joegreenon Rain simulator for pluviophiles

Yeah but favicon appears next to the bookmarked page's title in browsers. If there's no favicon you can't say which page the bookmark leads to after deleting the whole title to save space :-)

joegreenon WebGL + Web Audio API = Happy New Year

"Sorry, no WebGL API support detected. Get a modern browser and come back again" with the newest Firefox. What's modern nowadays? Only Chrome? :-)