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Misquoted headline.

Actual headline: "Explosion Damages Crimea Bridge, Imperiling Russian Supply Route".

Unless you live out in the sticks (as I do) ;) Then you're pretty-much stuck with 5Mb/s DSL :P

I hope they're rather hoarding solar panels...

That said, I'll bet solid Swiss money that Google is aware of the electricity supply situation here and has planned/is planning around it.

Still going on. We were without power from 12h00 to 14h00 this afternoon and will be again from 20h00 to 22h00 tonight, and that pattern will persist for at least the next few days (along with another outage in the wee hours so most of us don't care much.)

I have a solar contractor coming tomorrow to do the planning for an off-grid installation...

Allow me to introduce you to the "Generation Gap" design pattern. ["Pattern Hatching", John Vlissides, p85]

American?

You'll not prise my paper books from my cold, dead hands with a crowbar. I dislike ebooks intensely and won't use/buy them except for the most ephemeral use-cases (tech books).

What I really want is USB powered heating in my bones. Like just the long bones in the arms and legs would be fine. Or wirelessly powered (put the charge in my mouse-pad.)

Indeed, it prefers "current" Java (17ish). I'm pretty sure you can't build NB on Java8 any more.

No, I think Eclipse won because multi IBM dinero for marketing (back in the day) while Netbeans was... just zese guys, you know. Yeh, later they got some Sun support, but initially it was just... open source?

Netbeans team made one very good decision way back that IntelliJ still comes nowehere near to competing with: Integration with the underlying build system (Ant/Mvn/Gradle). IJ frequently gets itself into some weird state where it becomes uncoupled (unhinged?) from the Maven POM and has to be manually synchronised. Netbeans essentially does not have any independent notion of dependencies or build system, so there's never a sync question.

This also means that NB is infinitely better at handling/managing Maven sub-projects/modules, where IJ is pretty much always lost and blundering about in the wilderness.

All that said, I do believe that the Netbeans project has more-or-less lost the plot. They're spending so much time and energy trying to provide a language-server thing for VSCode that their own project is falling further and further behind the curve.

Yes, true. But who cares? If a student wants to "cheat", who are they actually cheating?

See, it all comes down to "Why are you here?" Are you doing a course so that you can "get some job"? Or are you doing it to learn, improve yourself, become a more-useful human being? If it's just to "get money, get a job", then the victory is almost certainly short lived and of little value. If it's to learn, improve yourself, then the only person being "cheated" is the student themselves.

One will survive/thrive in the long run, the other won't.

Don't waste your time on bullshit like that.

Actually encountered:

"Would you like to leave your phone number for further contact?"

"No."

"...................."

And even then... Any sufficiently complex system is chaotic (behaves in surprising, non-linear ways). And traffic networks pretty certainly constitute a sufficiently complex system.

Download Pharo or Squeak and start playing with it. Both (iirc) come with tutorial stuff. Or, if your feeling more adventurous, try Glamorous Toolkit (gtoolkit.com) which comes with has tons of teaching material (in the tool itself) -- also well worth investing some hours in watching some of their videos.

Thanks for replying. Useful data to me.

Genuine question: What OO languages have you worked in?

It's not the Artificial Intelligences I fear, but the Artificial Stupdidity. And that's existed since the 17th century (at least). see also: Banks, Phone Companies, Government (esp, at local levels).

Did they do a "Back to the Office" mandate recently?

If you're so stressed about it, why don't you turn off auto-upload? Why don't you use something other than Google Photos?

If you have a genuine requirement for photo sharing -- to share your shild's photos with their doctor, say -- there are plenty of other ways to do that. It's not like you're some captive hostage to Google here.

eta: I do wish your child wellness and a speedy recovery!

eta2: To the downvoters: Go for it - I can afford the decrementing of a number in someone else's computer. But. This was not an attack on the parent. Answer the damn questions!

Yes, I was wondering what the hell they did to my "back" button. Then I saw that I had "visited" the page something like 8 or 10 times just by clicking the article link here. How the hell does that work? And why?

I do think there's a degree of selection bias, here. Only quality writing from long ago would survive; the C19 equivalent of tweets (or HN comments) will have long since vanished, so not be around for us to evaluate.

"council taxes / water and sewage"

The immediate question that comes to mind: Can you opt out of those to do your own thing?

If not, then imho they're taxes.

IANAL either, but I believe that, yes, you could do just that. Of course you'd not have any copyright... :)

TBH I'm not entirely clear why the issue is so important to the people who publish these things, but clearly it is!

No, they're forced into long form posts because recipes cannot be copyrighted. By adding a story you get something with copy rights.

Long since done.

Interesting work in this space is being done by OpenPrivacy with their "cwtch" app. An express design goal is to minimise side-channel leakage of information.

Yes. Yes it has.

Doesn't matter, because, "These updates will go into effect after the 30-day notice and comment period".

i.e. "Comment all you like, we're steaming ahead with this stupid idea regardless."