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kjto··on Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
you’re trying to support “judicious and conservative” but realistically java is on a lifeline like fortran, delphi and objectiveC
kjto··on Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
Tasks, simple intro here https://code-maze.com/csharp-tasks-vs-threads/
kjto··on Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
.net has had this feature for a decade++
kjto··on Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
> Virtual threads offer a more efficient alternative to platform threads, allowing developers to handle a large number of tasks with significantly lower overhead.

they should have just called them "Tasks" leaving the already overloaded term "virtual" out of the conversation.

kjto··on Modular is building a next-generation AI developer platform
Swift doesnt sound like something that changed the world…
kjto··on Modular is building a next-generation AI developer platform
boring: Our platform is built of layered, composable components that can be remixed and extended

the usual gist, another framework

kjto··on Defamed by ChatGPT
AI defamation is just the next iteration of fake news which was an evolution of spam and trolling which is correlated to anonymity and freedom of speech. So just saying that tech is accelerating processes that would otherwise be so slow to be impossible but also that human rights feed into these bad results, and is not just about tech or big corps but also about our excessive reliance on tech, eg trusting wikipedia and google results and chatbots, at the end it’s humans trusting the wrong sources, regardless of how sources are coming to exist
kjto··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
The Italian gov might be crowded with subpar intelligence, but OpenAI didn’t do a great job at reassuring people either in terms of how they handle data, how they trained models, what they share with plugins, privacy and security blah blah
kjto··on Important lessons I’ve learned by using a UX process to redesign my portfolio
are portfolio websites still useful? do you get contacts/offers?
kjto··on Artificial Intelligence Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
one way to "look at it", AI is looking for its big brother
kjto··on Apple passwords deserve an app
what about https://authy.com/download? mobile/desktop/cloud sync, free...