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oldjavacoder··on Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid
Rockets ... looks like rockets, except in the case I correctly referred to. Thank you.
oldjavacoder··on Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries
True but there are some recent developments in the area of making them rechargeable.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning?
A text editor is what I use, the pattern is a comment line beginning with a # sign followed by the thing or things I'm noting, interspersed with comment lines if needed, followed by one or more blank lines to separate the concept.
oldjavacoder··on Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery

"However, an electric vehicle with aluminium batteries has the potential for up to eight times the range of a lithium-ion battery with a significantly lower total weight."

It just needs silver for a catalyst. :-(

oldjavacoder··on Unboxing a $100 Chromebook
I recommend a $200 Lenovo. It's tough to beat the quality.
oldjavacoder··on How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing
I was trying to imagine what advertising works on me...none.

What does work is a family member, friend suggests something or even an article online that is genuine and not written by someone with a flare for social engineering.

oldjavacoder··on Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
"Just curious, what evidence do we have that humans are sentient"

The fact we can ask that question and most people on the planet have at least a simple understanding of what it means.

oldjavacoder··on What I don’t like about working at a remote job
Remote works great for me, it has for many years, no complaints.
oldjavacoder··on The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas
Lived here for over 1.5 decades and do not see a "decades-long drying". Texas isn't perfect but water management is something it does right.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-drop/

"Among the fifty states, Texas may rank near the bottom in many categories—including environmental protection (forty-fifth), quality of parks and recreation (forty-ninth), and availability of mental health care (forty-sixth)—but there is one area of public policy where it ranks indisputably first: water planning. No other state knows with such precision how much water it has and how much it will have in the future."

"The drought of the 1890’s killed off much of its nascent cattle industry. In the fifties a seven-year drought (Texas’s worst statewide drought ever) destroyed much of the state’s agriculture and caused 244 of the state’s 254 counties to be declared federal disaster areas. This led the state legislature to create the Texas Water Development Board, which published its first water plan in 1961."

For every time a climate change hand waver starts up, the answer is, yes climate change is real...it's how the Earth works.

What we need is for people moving to the state do do what we did and get rid of the back yard, make a nice rock garden, stop watering those massive lawns.

oldjavacoder··on The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas
"My point isn't that inflation doesn't exist."

My wife tells me different, so I'm going with her real world experience in the matter.

oldjavacoder··on General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy
It isn't racist or classist bullshit. It was that people liked cars for the independence they provided. Today's live in their parent's basement generation can't comprehend the concept.
oldjavacoder··on A Brief History of the Telegraph
The semaphore tower method could maybe have supported mixed signals with one operator dedicated to receive/forward and the other operator dedicated to acknowledge with a detailed response.
oldjavacoder··on A Brief History of the Telegraph
That's a mind blower, I did not know about it thank you.
oldjavacoder··on When coal first arrived, Americans said 'no thanks'
I'd be for it except for the fact where Uranium mostly comes from. Like it or not, coal remains the energy reserve that potentially can keep the Us free.
oldjavacoder··on Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?
Modern AI can barely drive a car under ideal conditions without crashing. The ocean is full of sounds. AI is decades away (still, and I've said this now for decades) from figuring out what it is hearing.
oldjavacoder··on A Brief History of the Telegraph
I saw a picture of a stretch of road in the west and started thinking about the 1800's and the striking contrast between the wild and the technological American landscape. It turns out Google has an interesting site, linked.
oldjavacoder··on ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like
Agreed. ML (a component of AI) faces the same issue today as it always has, outliers, i.e. the real world.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
The only languages worth their weight are Java and C.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
Agreed on JSF productivity, also found the parent comment quite astounding in this regard.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
I do Java as I've done for several decades. I tried C# years ago despite Microsoft. Java and the JVM are superior, technologically and morally to anything they can come up with.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
Kotlin is not and never will be on my list of languages.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
The fact that the pile of tools required to get a web to do anything useful is such a terrible mess including Angular and React is why I'm in full dismay that they are used by otherwise intelligent developers at all.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
I've no interest in any Russian connected project including Kotlin, IntelliJ or nginx these days.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
I'll give it a look, it's been years since I checked Vaadin out.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
"You're relegated to the backend not because you know Java instead of Typecript, but because you don't understand the problems of frontend development."

I've designed a number of front-ends in various languages on various platforms and am very comfortable with vanilla web programming and design.

The reason I'm relegated to the back-end because 99% of front-end developers don't know how to program and choose garbage like JavaScript or based on it and are often intently amused by the mention of yet another tool out of hundreds that churn all that crap into something almost useful but hopelessly unmaintainable.

oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
This sounds encouraging, yours is around the third comment I've seen so far about TeaVM.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
Someone else mentioned TeaVM and SnapKit, I plan to look into those.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
Definitely worth a look thank you! On another note, I've experimented successfully with https://www.jsweet.org/.
oldjavacoder··on Ask HN: Why isn't GWT or Vaadin more popular among Java developers?
The cold sweat comment wasn't referring to my abilities, but to the thought that actual enterprises use the horrific combination of terrifying garbage called Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript and the legion of tools needed to make them do anything comprehensibly close to intelligibly useful in this year, 2022.
oldjavacoder··on Deepest infrared image of universe
Another similar take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_expansion_of_the_....
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