Viewing profile — desertlounger

Classic!

How does a constellation become "obsolete"?

FWIW, javascript:// bookmarklets don't work on the standard Chrome home / new tab page, but data URL bookmarklets work everywhere. Here's my bookmarklet for Day Of Year... data:tex…

The reference is to a previous licensing change, which made it less free, with Oracle shaking down groups using the Oracle JDK. They've changed their terms before and could do so a…

src/main/java is a convention that started with Maven; it's simple to change in the project build file (pom.xml). Otherwise, it's due to the fact that a package namespace in Java m…

lossless? large sizes? multi-band (> 3) data? transparency? animation? I work in software support of scientific imaging, and jpeg-xl looks to be the only format to date that suppor…

Yes. And with "records" (record classes, something with the characteristics of a tuple or struct) you can get further away from getter/setter boilerplate code.

AFAIK Java was GPL'd by Sun (before the Oracle purchase). This resulted in the OpenJDK, which is the basis for all distributions of Java. Oracle is a big contributor to the develop…

Can't help but think that both would look a lot better w/ text-align: justify on paragraphs.

And if you write "polyglot" html (html written as syntactically correct xml) then you can use xpath or other tools to extract data from it (i.e. from tables).

I always thought it is because our eyes are arranged horizontally and not vertically...

I write a lot of Java, and like checked exceptions. The problem is rather the opposite, basically all of the concrete exception classes that you might think to use (e.g. IllegalArg…

Since Java 8, there are two ways to build a binary: the javapackager tool, and the Ant JavaFX tasks (with the OpenJDK, install the openjfx package). It'll include the JRE [~50MB], …