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to be more specific, yes. I was going with the least specific branch of the tree that was still different and widely recognizable.

The Germanic Thursday is “Thor’s day”, I guess Jupiter is more like Thor than Odin/Woden.

Another major benefit of modules: when distributing native executables, the included JDK can be limited to just the modules you need.

This can potentially reduce the size of java binaries by many megs.

I read that as a very polite way of saying that, historically speaking, they were widely regarded as thieves. As in, if you traveled in certain places of the desert without an armed escort, you would be robbed.

With respect to the Kennedy’s bad experience, are you referring to Rosemary’s involuntary commitment and subsequent lobotomy? That was pretty awful, was there something more?

What you are describing could be called geritocracy, which is a bit of a pejorative, implying negative outcomes, particularly for the young. But then consider Florida, with the most old folks per capita, and what their policies and outcomes have been.

once I got terrible service at an airport Starbucks. I used the URL on the receipt to report my negative experience to HMS, AND ALSO reported it on the Starbucks website. I received a $10 Starbucks gift card from HMS (more than amount of my purchase) and a $20 gift card from Starbucks.

Awful service but at least I feel like I got my money’s worth. Interesting that Starbucks corporate was more generous than HMS. They were both very responsive, fwiw

You’re right. The original 68k chip was contemporaneous with the Z80 and 6502.

I was thinking of the later chips in the 68k series, which got much faster over the years.

for non-English speakers: colloquially, performance == speed. this is a regression in speed, I was making GP’s assessment more accurate.

More accurate: an early 6502 or Z80 (circa late 70s/early 80s) with speeds in the low MHz range.

So a ~40-year regression in performance.

Edward Gibbon does ascribe some positive qualities to Nero; but Domitian or Commodus after his early years, they were just plain cruel.

How does it hold in base 2? Wouldn’t changing the least significant digit always make any prime an even number?

iirc they have a life warranty, that kind of addresses your concern.

No no no.

I’m picturing an evil Emeril Lagasse: “this holocene mass extinction thing... let’s kick it up a notch!”

> I have self hosted trilium and used to self host matrix.

Wait, you’re self hosting multiple apps on one system, and not using K8?!? Your apps can’t autoscale or do blue/green upgrades or any of the cool stuff you are now mandated to do by the cargo cult. How do you sleep at night??

/s

Bubble is open source and self hosted. You should never trust anyone to touch your plaintext traffic but you.

as a volunteer EMT I’ve done CPR a few times. it’s normal to break ribs.

probability of rib fracture increases with age.

sufficiently old and it approaches 100%.

babies are the most flexible, I don’t know if their ribs even can break, below a certain age.

edit: clarifying, I’ve never not broken ribs, but my youngest patient was middle age.

See my reply above. You are mitm-ing yourself.

We can’t see your traffic. We can’t login to your Bubble— but you can install an ssh key and root around all you want.

We are anti-SaaS

Please understand that you always run your own Bubble, it generates its own certificate, no one else can see your traffic.

Even if you launch using our paid service, it’s the same- we don’t have access to the system we launch on your behalf.

Bubble is as private as running your own WireGuard VPN, it’s just a lot easier to set up and comes with some cool features.

You can absolutely try the open source version right now: https://git.bubblev.org/bubblev/bubble

Disclosure: author of Bubble

Bubble [1] is a new kind of VPN that does just about exactly what you are looking for. On FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Insta, etc, you can scroll through your feed and:

* No ads!

* No tracking! (except what you click, can't avoid this)

* Auto-block posts matching keywords you don't like (politics/etc)

* Auto-block posts that contain links to news websites (I use this on FB, it's great)

* Block specific users whether you're connected to them or not.

* Blocked users don't know you've blocked them, because the block is at the network-level, not in the social media service.

Bubble is open source [2], our commercial offering is currently in beta.

How does it work? It's basically a WireGuard VPN with a tightly-integrated mitmproxy. So it works on any device, but the social media blocking only works on the web (native apps are cert pinned, which breaks mitm). AMA.

Oh did I mention it works on HN too? I rarely need to block a user here, but when I do, it sure is nice to have that feature!

[1] https://getbubblenow.com

[2] https://github.com/getbubblenow/bubble-docs

I also thought demos are supposed to be small self-contained binaries, has this changed?

> No one, not even Mark Zuckerberg, can control the product he made.

Well, one can control oneself, that's about the best we can do. As others have mentioned, don't use it.

I tried that. After years of not using FB at all, I missed out on some important news that was only posted there.

I decided to get back on FB, on my own terms. I created Bubble [1] and now I can visit FB with most tracking disabled, no ads, I only see posts from my friends, and even then only posts that do not link to news websites or contain political keywords.

My signal/noise ratio is usually about 50%. I love my clean feed. Works on LinkedIn, Twitter, others.

But the root problem goes deeper -- clearly not everyone cares or has the motivation to filter their own social media feeds. Some people like reading echo-chamber/fake news posts, truth is far down on their list of priorities.

I don't know what the big-picture answer is.

[1] https://getbubblenow.com (currently in beta)

Agreed. Malicious/unethical lawyers who maintain scrupulous finances are a disease with no known cure.

> Not a lawyer, but is there a way to try to institute more stringent legal ethics at the bar level?

Sure, the same way you get the teachers union to help fire bad teachers or the police union to punish bad apple officers.

Which is to say: not gonna happen.

Perhaps it's more about power and influence than money.

Twitter has political power, therefore it gets included.

How big is the newspaper industry relative to its influence?

I don't mind them if they're not too long. And if you can use more recent version of Java, the new `var` keyword is a nice verbosity reduction.

> Remember how hard and verbose it was to hydrate records from a DB result and turn them into Java objects with pure JDBC? The language certainly was at fault.

I don't blame the language for this.

It wasn't that hard to read/write objects using JDBC (it did usually create a lot of boilerplate)

Please name a major programming language that has built-in ORM features -- a library is the best place for this sort of stuff.

For Java this was J2EE/EJB (stupidly over-engineered) and Hibernate/JPA (decent if you avoid the footguns). For Ruby you have ActiveRecord, Python has Django and SQLAlchemy, etc.

> Java was full of AbstractSingletonBeanFactory classes long before unit testing became a thing

You're right that Java had some long class names to start with, but I think it was mostly Spring that introduced the PerhapsOverlyDetailedClassNamingConvention.

Spring's introduction and subsequent wide adoption was a big driver of TDD's growth, which encouraged all those interfaces and mocks.

+1 for Synology DS Audio. I've been using it for the last 2+ years and it works great.

For those like me who had no idea what eBPF is — https://blog.pixielabs.ai/ebpf and https://blog.pixielabs.ai/ebpf-http-tracing/