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Modern JVMs will detect orchestrator-set cgroup limits and size themselves accordingly. If you, for example, set a cpu limit for a pod to “1”, the JVM will size itself as if it was…

I will never forget the amusing attention I got from the professor when this topic was covered during my undergrad. It's only happened once, sadly, but this is only seconded by the…

In the same range of the probability of it happening anywhere else, but (if you’re honest with yourself) a bit lower. Seizure of property and/or nationalization of whole industries…

JEP 484: Classfile API is going to be huge. It will take a while for full adoption, but finally being able abstract the backend of ByteBuddy/ASM/etc will be a gigantic boon. Being …

This looks very cool - I'm going to read into the implementation, there's something about producing JVM bytecode from WASM instructions and then having the JVM JIT compile it into …

Imagine my disappointment when I spent the time to set up a Cassandra instance and it did not immediately materialize a demigod woman who knew the answers to everything but was cur…

Any discussion of the game’s requirement to install kernel-level anticheat hooks that inspect the memory of every process running on the system?

Well, it's nice to know that Sable's entire portfolio is going into the public domain, it's a shame that the likely 50-100 other shell companies owned by this troll still have an a…

How much do you weigh?

I will start to believe the "7 years of updates" promise for Pixel phones when the first model that was released with this promise is approximately 7.5 years old. At that point, I …

"Danger: Not Only Will This Kill You, It Will Hurt The Whole Time You're Dying"

| its case insensitive by default This is obviously up for debate, but subjectively I find this to be an absolutely terrible design decision.

Yet another example of how the American education system is falling behind the rest of the world. Students in the US only learn one kind of math, but apparently the rest of the Eng…

I’m not entirely sure - it would be interesting to break down the cohort of the 78% of never-marrieds who live alone. Presumedly, they are single or not in a serious relationship, …

There is no way this would ever even pass initial consideration at the Federal level, in that there is no incentive for the Federal government to limit the weaponry available to it…

It’s delicious and nutritious in moderation?

At the very least, and the cost for this perhaps would be prohibitive, but some mechanism to duplicate the raw flux off the tape onto another tape in an identical format, a backup …

Nobody predicted this except pretty much everybody who thought about what the long-term effects of COVID would be on commercial real estate around mid-2020 or so.

"They were both temporarily excluded from the public eye, but they were not arrested." Does a rose by any other name smell as sweet?

I have very little to fear, on a personal level, from the CCP. They may or may not be collecting data on me, and I find that distasteful and somewhat scary, but they are not a dire…

This extension seems rather interesting, but I suspect you may have harmed your brand more than you helped it by making the above post.

“Dear citizens, please be wary of attacks on your devices designed to compromise your privacy and personal information. It would be unfortunate if we had competition in the game.”

The fair price for one of these devices is somewhere between ‘free’ and $100. The mind boggles at the concept of paying Meta $1000 for the privilege of capturing (and controlling) …

> I don’t think we need to identify Google’s motives as malicious I would argue that the evidence over the past several years has shown that the default position w.r.t. to Google's…

> One thing that is worth keeping in mind is that the end result can end up still being right. “ On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine…