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Odd that the FFI list didn't include Java given the JVM target. Typo or oversight?

X is the same. "Check out what [politician/celeb] said on X!!" And it's the login page.

The answer is not to sign up to X, but to learn to suppress your FOMO. Chances are it was drivel anyway. Especially true for LinkedIn.

Can't escape the feeling that the original vulnerability was deliberately planted as a mechanism for law enforcement (or maybe criminal orgs) to "expedite" investigations.

She wasn't in power very long though.

Reading articles in advance of commenting usually helps

Good article.

One of the great things about having an open platform like the Xteink is that it should uncover loads of novel and unsatisfied use cases. Eg, this could be paired with a mobile phone to act as a secondary display much better suited to outdoor applications in bright sunlight.

Absolute number of downloads inevitably goes up. Weekly downloads number doesn't.

> Google and Facebook fucked up the internet.

I'd say advertising has fucked up the Internet. Everything they (and plenty of others) have done has been to collect and sell personal data to advertising brokers.

A lot of IBM customers have moved to RH Openshift and running their java there.

Fun fact: I searched for Kobo Clara on Amazon, and the algorithm has labelled it "Amazon's choice". A subtle agreement with you maybe :)

Apache is just an umbrella organisation for managing open source software projects. There's nothing that links those projects otherwise.

Isn't that just "the World Wide Web"?

The reason these sites require login is because they also want to control the resulting conversations, whether for moderation (generous) or selling your data (more likely).

Announcements/political campaigning doesn't require feedback in the same way so no reason for them to use X, FB or anything else.

Seeing the state of most conversations on X or FB, I'm quite happy with limiting the general public's ability to broadcast to the world.

Eckel also did "Thinking in C++"

https://amzn.eu/d/03uSE3im

Love it! But shouldn't that be "high results/complexity ratio"?

As depicted by Norman Rockwell:

https://prints.nrm.org/detail/518488/rockwell-the-new-tavern...

No Linux support is a shame. Fortunately there's Lazarus and FreePascal as an alternative.

For me, Smalltalk's "wow" moment was the concept of a persistently running image, with the developer's job being to mould and manipulate it into the shape s/he wants.

That's helped by errors.Unwrap() and errors.Is(), though you do need to build and structure your errors appropriately.

It looks more reasonable (literally lol) with syntax highlighting though.

I have a Garmin Vivoactive 3. Fantastic watch but I find the HRM underwhelming. Not very accurate and drains battery. I pair a chest band with it instead for much better quality monitoring.

Why?

I mean if you squint hard enough, it's the same idea as a cathode ray tube. Each hole scans across the "screen" for the desired width, then the next hole down takes over, which does the same. Back in the day, you'd get an interrupt when the reset happened, and you could recalculate your sprite position before the next line got scanned.

Very cool seeing this implementation though. Congrats, OP!

Not exactly apples to oranges though, is it?

Yup. And using it a lot recently ... !

Yeah, you're probably right. Looking back at news reports, it looks like the Haslemere case may have been the first person infected within the UK, ie they hadn't been abroad.

Yeah, just watching the first few minutes of the program, it's astonishing how prophetic it was.

Well deserved.

Her most memorable program for me was her 2018 program "Contagion" which modelled a virus outbreak among volunteers in the town of Haslemere, UK, using an app measuring Bluetooth proximity.

Guess which town contained the UK's Covid patient zero a year later!

Edit: found it here https://youtu.be/yISdMLbO0Wc?is=T-Tq9LwzLgbusuoe

I tried running my own but it turned out to be more complex than I was expecting (and desiring). I ended up paying a bit for a hosted server at ShockByte.

The idea of using a subset of an existing popular language is very wise IMHO. We can (and apparently are) debating the merits of the language runtime, but what a subset gives you is immediate access to a large pile of existing tooling that you'd have to write yourself, eg linters, formatters, lsps, etc. Stuff that is purely source-oriented.

That hadn't really occurred to me before.

You may well know this already, but the 2002 "Shackleton" miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh is a pretty faithful dramatisation of Alfred Lansing's book. Well worth a watch if you can get hold of it.