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The estimated travel times displayed in major cities along highways are calculated by license plate sampling from what I understand

You are definitely not alone. I love Java and I will always defend it. Java's perception is tainted by baggage from decades ago.

I like this argument/reasoning more than any I've encountered so far. Thank you! Enabling the disabled is definitely a positive and this is a strong argument for the "pro AI" colum…

Is the hard evidence of AI being a net improvement for society in the room with us now?

Back in the late 90s the Michigan Tech CS labs had 2 preferred machines for students to remote into, Colossus and Guardian. I always enjoyed the reference as well as this movie’s a…

And your life might be very privileged to so flippantly disregard anyone’s reality that is just that difficult.

I can appreciate that Discord is dealing with a lot of sides on this issue, and this response seems well measured with meaningful changes to the roll-out. As someone who has been f…

I think Java has plenty of features that end up implicitly banned at least. e.g. you will really never see a `java.util.Vector` in any modern code base. No one `implements Serializ…

I always advocate that TODO comments include a link to a ticket tracking the TODO during code review. It’s easy to get a team to make this 2nd nature and gets immediate debt in the…

Java 8 -> anything 11+ wasn't great at scale. It's been smooth sailing for a long time again though.

Who is characterizing the other evidence as "equally specious" besides you in this new strawman argument? Is your position that there are zero reliable indicators that fascism is o…

Looking at this in a vacuum, sure maybe it's time to touch grass. Looking at this in the context of everything else going on in the country, maybe there are a lot of warning signs …

Notably, a lockfile does not solve this problem either.

I think you misread my response. I think assuming Amazon did this to hurt “s3 compatible” services is cynical. Amazon implemented a feature, well within their rights. Writing a blo…

Less charitable or More cynical? How is Amazon supposed to track a 3rd party pulling their SDK and then reverse-engineering their own service side to work with the SDK? Assuming we…

Hard agree. If AWS were offering “S3 compatibility certification” or similar I could see framing this as an AWS/S3 problem. This seems like the definition of “S3 compatible” change…

Does 5 of a kind beat a royal straight?

If an Uber driver caused you to miss a flight by driving around a parking lot in circles at a speed you can't exit the vehicle, you don't think it would be a reasonable request for…

When you call from a cell phone, public safety answering points get your gps data from the carrier. Landline calls have their associated address data sent. This is called e911 and …