Greedflation: what a lovely term. An accelerating flow of cash into the pockets of the billionaires. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflation-corporate-profiteering-boosted-global-prices-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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James Gosling
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mastodon 4.6.8Generic software engineer. Geek. Happy refugee from the Twitter dumpster-fire.
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I’m another of the folks in this MAGA-Elon age who is embarrassed to admit that I own a Tesla. I really wish that any of the competitors actually built a competitive product. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/29/tesla-owners-elon-musk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Apache NetBeans team did a fantastic job of the 20th release of my favorite IDE. The change list is long, but the one I appreciate the most is jdk21 support. I've been using the RC for at least a month. Totally rock solid. Thanks everyone! https://netbeans.apache.org/front/main/blogs/entry/announce-apache-netbeans-20-released/
Run, do not walk, to see Deep Sky: The IMAX 2D Experience. It’s a beautiful documentary about the Webb telescope. Completely mind blowing, especially in IMAX. It’s only in a few theaters for a short time.
If you’re feeling in need of panic and anxiety, this video is great: a physicist getting cranky about a nerdy argument in the climate modeling community that appears to be resolving to the horror end of the scale. This is going to be bad. If you know anyone in the oil industry: go scream at them. https://youtu.be/4S9sDyooxf4?si=-DQvJzsZUBsA0H-y
The answer to this question is a resounding yes. It’s hard to see the math working for any other outcome. Between the overhang of debt and his petulant attitude toward the people that pay the bills, Musk is heading for a painful lesson. But will he learn from it? The evidence so far says no. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67599937
It's been time to migrate off of JDK8 for years and years, and yet lots of folks feel stuck. Well, there's some new help: AWS just announced a new product:Amazon Q. It can, among many other things, perform Java application upgrades, from version 8 and 11 to version 17. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-q-brings-generative-ai-powered-assistance-to-it-pros-and-developers-preview/
AI achieves consciousness, from a great old movie: https://youtu.be/h73PsFKtIck?si=qsApp8JEOvKqYiRm
My often-used snide remark is that I want to live long enough to see Mar-a-Lago permanently under water. There's a terrifying chance that I may get my wish, as a recent report outlines. We need to stop global warming, but no matter what, we also need to do some contingency planning for sea level rise. These aren't the 3-feet-at-2100 scenarios. We need to have a plan for at least 10 feet, which involves much more drastic engineering. More on that later.
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@kentpitman@climatejustice.social @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org Your understanding is mostly faulty. The original GC was written by me, and I'm no Lisp GC expert. I was (and still am) an admirer of Lisp. I wrote the code for my whole PhD thesis in Lisp. My admiration for garbage collection started earlier, when I was a big user of Simula in the 70s. But the motivation for GC in Java was different: the motivation was all about reliability and security. A leading cause of security vulnerabilities as always been buggy code. And one of the leading root causes of many long standing, hard to diagnose and fix, bugs has been flakey storage management. Garbage collection goes a long way to increasing system reliability, and hence security. I had always wanted to make GC more mainstream.
When you described garbage collection to senior management back in the day, their reflexive judgement was: "bullshit! Lazy engineers just don't want to clean up their mess". But when they see measureable improvements in system robustness, and corresponding decreases in failures, they Notice.
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org The GC I wrote back in the early i90s is (thankfully) long gone. Many Actual Experts in garbage collection joined the project, with many backgrounds. Lisp and Smalltalk were common. I am completely in awe of today's Java garbage collectors.