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From what I have heard, Graal is still quite a headache if you are using libraries that are not compatible, but maybe this is out of date.

Being able to create a self contained Kotlin app (JVM) that starts up quickly and uses the same amount of memory as the equivalent golang app would be amazing.

What happens when Bosch changes the protocol / encryption just for the heck of it, are you guys back to square one?

Both my 4a an 6a got the battery nerf update. I had no idea this impacted the 7a as well. I prefer Pixels for Android Development but my trust in Google is at an all time low.

You can't meet your daily protein / caloric requirements in one meal. Also many vitamins / minerals compete for absorption so you don't want to consume all of them at the same meal either.

I am also worried about the concurrency side of Kotlin. Since Roman Elizarov, the architect of the coroutine / flow implementation, left JetBrains two years ago, it seems to be stagnant. Looking through the tracker conversations I almost get the impression whoever inherited it doesn't know where to take it next.

“FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Kennedy wrote. “This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma."

Anyone know what chelating compounds he is talking about?

He mentions clean foods, but the Trump EPA is protecting corporations from regulations more than its protecting citizens from pollution.

If its like the 4A updates, your phone will charge rapidly and discharge rapidly. And half the time the phone is charged it will say 100% and then go to 5%.

The thing with 3M masks is that PFAS is used in certain models / batches, and in worst case scenarios (prolonged usage, sweating) you can get exposed to it.

I only use them when the air is really bad.

A Trader Joe's in Phoenix has had these for so long (years?), the parking lot is bathed in almost completely blue light. They don't seem to care. It really throws off your vision and things look "fuzzy".

archive link https://archive.is/zLeN4#selection-530.0-530.1

> corruption is actually considered a benefit! This is because the loyalists interpret this as "we" are winning and "they" are losing.

I think the end goal is domination. From https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/109551955251655267 :

It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.

It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.

It’s very important to understand, fascists don’t just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect.

It’s the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you’re able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point.

For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue — the greatest.

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hypocrisy-and-fascism-2018-0...

Title should mention 2024.

Kotlin dominates Android development, but Android Studio is free. Google has become more and more hostile towards indie Play Store developers, so in 2025 it is more risky and less lucrative. Kotlin's "home turf" (Android) may be losing developers faster faster than Jetbrains can gain them on other platforms.

I assume its will be a polyglot world for some time to come, and devs that decide to retool into another stack could use anything else, leaving Kotlin behind.

I never shopped Temu / Shein but got lots of electronics from AliExpress. My last purchase was a spectrometer, I would never be able to afford it now with tariffs + de minimus gone.

I think this will hurt the DIY / Maker / IoT community hard.

Another request I suddenly worry about is "what books has this person purchased or read on their kindle"

- or -

Who has read books critical of the Trump Regime in the past x months?

Exactly, since the 'list all tabs' is a superset of vertical tab behavior, and I have to go there anyhow for things missing in vertical tabs, I disabled vertical tabs.

I tried using vertical tabs and tab groups simultaneously, but there seems to be nothing like 'list all tabs' / Recent tab groups, so my tab groups are already lost amongst the other tabs. 'close duplicate tabs' is also missing from vertical tabs.

Since I keep having to go into that menu I just disabled vertical tabs.

From

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-teeth-and-gums/how-to-k...

> After brushing, spit out any excess toothpaste.

> Don't rinse your mouth immediately after brushing, as it'll wash away the concentrated fluoride in the remaining toothpaste.

> Rinsing dilutes it and reduces its preventative effects.

There seems to be a contradiction; rinsing well may minimize exposure from contaminants, but negate the effect of flouride :/

> I could walk item by item through System Settings and point out many equally inexplicable decisions. Did anyone at Apple really believe a Mac user’s life would be better if common features were buried deep in menus?

I have to agree with this, System Settings seems very inconsistent (design) and has terrible information architecture / organization.

There seems to be political will to ignore it

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-treasury-department-says...

> many people exiting the industry entirely because of the uncertainty.

It might be time to exit the US.

"Last week, Aix Marseille University, France’s largest university ... announced that it is already seeing great interest from scientists at NASA, Yale, Stanford, and other American schools and government agencies, and that it wants to expand the program to other schools and European countries to absorb all the researchers who want to leave the United States."

https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-co...

Ah, sorry ... when you scroll down the URL changes :/ I would delete / edit if I could.

Indeed, as Gary Kasparov eluded to

"These are not the acts of people who expect to lose power any time soon, or ever."

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/pu...

or

https://archive.is/l4kLV

David Brooks, at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, had a session called "How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart)"

I included a link just below to at the exact timestamp he talks about this:

How Brooks sees Trumpism: not conservative, they don't have a conservative or positive vision for society, they just want to destroy the institutions "dominated" by left. In his words, this means, they are astoundingly incompetent. "Elite Narcissicm" leads to the destruction of every thought system it encounters.

https://youtu.be/QSa52TR9tCA?si=Uckncgw-WbAfA5tZ&t=277

It's like AOC'c comments to NPR the other day

"Everything feels increasingly like a scam," she said. "Not only are grocery prices going up, but it's like everything has a fee and a surcharge. And I think that anger is put out at government."

Don't need Forest Service if you plan on selling the Forests ...

"Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund"

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-quietly-plans...

Only product in my orbit that is based on NetBeans is Microchip's MPLAB X IDE, but it hasn't been updated in over a year. I'm starting to wonder if they are having issues or will abandon it for VS Code.

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mpla...

> It took 4 or 5 months to start to fuse still

Yeah it was almost half a year for me. My doctor even started prescribing "non-standard" treatments like electrical stimulation, etc, which didn't work.

I think wired nailed it:

"This is incompetence born of self-confidence. It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things."

"And if you don’t believe in the public good? You sprint through the ruination. You metastasize from agency to agency, leveling the maximum allowable destruction under the law. DOGE’s costly, embarrassing mistakes are a byproduct of reckless nihilism; if artificial intelligence can sell you a pizza, of course it can future-proof the General Services Administration.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-incompetence-mistakes-featu...