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jdc··on What the “superforecasters” predict for major events in 2023
I think determinism is the word you're looking for.
jdc··on Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others
Way too many of you idolize Feynman and it shows. Could he be a good role model? Sure!

However, I'd caution you against rosey-eyed or overgeneralized interpretations, and against adopting wholesome whatever works for someone else!

jdc··on Go 1.19 Released
Java's value types will be ready soon enough: https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla
jdc··on Show HN: Svelvet – A component library for building interactive flow diagrams
Runs flawlessly on my Pixel 4 XL
jdc··on NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs
I prefer lazyatime.
jdc··on Use fast data algorithms (2021)
Why not try a self-extracting archive?

see https://makeself.io

jdc··on Covid spike protein induces cognitive deficit and anxiety-like behavior in mice
It certainly does make wonder what would happen if they did inject an mRNA vaccine, though.
jdc··on It's not your fault
https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/control-runaway-postgres-q...
jdc··on GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17
Project Panama should greatly improve the FFI & game dev situation greatly.
jdc··on Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
Thanks. Just clarifying for some of us (including myself) who tend to jump to the most exciting possible conclusion.
jdc··on Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
If I'm understanding this correctly, then what Cloudflare is doing is hosting websites of DDoS services rather than hosting DDoS attacks themselves.
jdc··on Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop
Would it be fair to say you don't want to write this?

  z = ->(x) { x + 1 }

  z.call(y)
jdc··on Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks
How much longer did said dev continue working there?
jdc··on Declarative, non-intrusive, compile-time C++ reflection for audio plug-ins
Looks promising. I wonder if this could be used to load arbitrary VST and LV2 plugins into EasyEffects.
jdc··on Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost
I wonder what specifically the GPU missing that OpenGL needs.
jdc··on End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police
> For those of you who down vote this post, I'm guessing you support criminals?

You have a good comment here, but this line really hurts its credibility IMO.

jdc··on Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture
I'm no expert, but isn't turn-based multiplayer a completely different animal?
jdc··on Offline-First Database Comparison
See also Google's Lovefield SQL browser database:

https://google.github.io/lovefield

jdc··on Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work
I'd like to visit that part of the world some day.
jdc··on Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work
I mean who is saying this?
jdc··on Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work
Name five.
jdc··on First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years
I'm glad you asked! I've invoked it as a rhetorical device to highlight how different each opiate is from the next.

I'd like to less misery caused by heavy-handed drug policy — and it seems to me that decriminalization (and perhaps even legalization) is the way forward.

jdc··on First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years
Alright, go ahead and get on a regular IV fentanyl regime and let me know how that goes for you.
jdc··on First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years
> Why is it that instead of acknowledging the rather uncomfortable root cause of those deaths, we just default to the so much simpler scapegoat, pills (the active ingredient in which has been with us in one form or another since 5000 BC), and pretend everything else is just rainbows and unicorns?

Okay, I'll take mushrooms, which have actually been with us since then, and you take synthetic intravenous opioids and we'll see who fares better.

jdc··on Amazon Corretto JDK
As to the reason why, apparently Oracle revoked their TCK[0] license[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Compatibility_Kit

1. https://twitter.com/volker_simonis/status/105261065466907443...

See this Reddit thread for more background:

https://old.reddit.com/r/java/comments/l5m3p6/eclipse_to_hos...

IBM offers OpenJ9 binaries under the Semaru name here: https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes

jdc··on Amazon Corretto JDK
Correct, they've dropped OpenJ9 support during the rebranding.
jdc··on Amazon Corretto JDK
From the Adoptium FAQ:

> This is the project and brand name for the binaries that the Eclipse Foundation produces. You can think of these as the successor binaries to AdoptOpenJDK.

The current LTS versions are 8, 11 and 17. Supported platforms include arm32 (Linux), aarch64 (Linux & macOS), x64 (Windows, Alpine & Linux w/ glibc) and x86 (Linux).

jdc··on Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications
See also the Boehm GC, a garbage collector for C and C++.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector

jdc··on Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications
First of all, Common Lisp is a language with several implementations, some of which offer AOT compilation. Secondly, a garbage-collection (aka automatic memory management) does not exclude AOT.
jdc··on Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
How about the freedom to use your property, electronic or otherwise, as you see fit?
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