Not the person your were talking to but at work the Windows machines have a bunch of MDM garbage on them that screws up the OS and requires reimaging every few months. For that reason I have a Powershell script to automatically set up a machine.

Playing music on the street is acceptable if and only if the music is good.

We already have an extremely complicated system of farm insurance and commodity futures for that.

Yep Kalshi is at best only shrinking the scale of things a farmer could bet on instead of getting proper old style crop insurance (either yield or revenue). It's just cloaking a weather slot machine in "we're helping farmers" language. Agri-washing their betting market if you will.

The Minecraft JE launchers for android don't use Android's JVM, they include a version of OpenJDK and that's what's used to run the game.

Exactly because Android Java isn't Java proper, it is Google's J++.

Even after they dumped Apache Harmony for OpenJDK, they only cherry pick what they feel like from OpenJDK, relatively easy to check, comparing the AOSP source code with OpenJDK.

Then there is the whole history of what ART can do, versus the native JVM bytecodes, where some features are lost in translation, e.g. lambdas aren't nested classes, they make use of invokedynamic.

Additionally they are in no hurries to update Java baseline version, other than when Kotlin starts losing access to more recent Java libraries at Maven Central.

This all makes sense when you realize Trump and his goons don't actually care about the economy, or energy, or whatever. They care about the culture war. Coal is right-coded, solar is left-coded, therefore we need more coal and less solar, regardless of what the actual facts are. It really is that dumb.

Desktop for creating cards, mobile for reviewing them.

I prefer a laptop for reviewing because it’s still portable, but also more amenable to comfort for longer sessions and makes spot corrections easier.

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I think there's a difference here.

If I right click save and get a webp, it was probably converted from JPG. Very very few images are uploaded in webp. So getting a webp image means you've downloaded an inferior version.

JXL doesn't have this issue because conversion from jpeg is lossless. So you've still gotten the real, fully-quality image.

Let's be realistic - when most users are upset they got a .webp, they're not annoyed because of quality-loss, they're annoyed because they can't immediately use it in many other services & software.

This is still a problem with AVIF, too. Image viewers that support the format often don't support animated AVIFs, and even GitHub still for some godforsaken reason treats .avif files in a repo/PR as binary files instead of images. I think Discord just recently started supporting AVIFs, so that's progress.

Biden probably just forgot, like he forgot he promised to do public option. All his attention was focused on sending Isreal more bombs and having dementia.

Armed conflict against fascist dictators is a good thing.

I think people are overlooking the most important part:

- Further, violation of this term gave the NSF the right to “claw back” previously approved and transferred funds. This would create a situation where money we’d already spent could be taken back, which would be an enormous, open-ended financial risk.

They're saying the terms give the Trump administration what's essentially a "kill the PSF" button. Which they may want to use for any number of arbitrary reasons. Maybe the PSF runs a conference with a trans speaker, or someone has to be ousted for being openly racist. If it gets the attention of right wing media that's the end.

The "just comply with the law" people are being extremely naive. There can be no assumption of good faith here.