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Exactly this. Or charge my laptop via the phone cable, sure, it's slower, but it still works.

That is exact problem. Basically JEP401 guarantees that just adding "value" to the class won't change behaviour, which also means that you are not allowed to see object tearing, wh…

That is a nice piece piece of knowledge! We have an Integer cache in our product, and the only reason that it hangs around is that it caches 0..1024 instead of -127..128. By settin…

What is the problem at hand? How to get customers to make poor financial decisions? How to sell more phones to people that can't really afford them? Seriously, what is the problem …

They didn't blow the whistle though, not really. Especially not when gp said that they expected the department head to brush it under the rug. If reporting things "up the chain of …

There are plenty of cases where flattening an object that takes 64bits would make sense. The current code will help with `Integer[]`, `Char []`, etc, as well as combinations of `by…

From the article: > The documentation should open with something like this: >> The callback function must perform its work quickly without blocking. If you need to do complex work …

And, since he isn't waiting on the reply, he is following the rule for the callback.

The "practical" use case is to allow auto playing of videos for those users who disable it, from the "Strategic Vision & Core Capabilities" section: > Bypassing Browser Constraints…

At the very least, it goes against the spirit of the specification, even if there is no explicit wording forbidding it.

In many battlefield scenarios, there is more than one "somebody" on it. The "somebody" that you kill might not be the "somebody" that you intended to kill. Depending on the how pel…

That's the advantage of externalised costs. It doesn't matter how high they are, you don't have to pay them! You see this in all sorts of places, for example, stealing an EV chargi…

This has always been true. We have talked about the costs of raising children forever. What is different now, is twofold: 1. Bigger financial impact of having a child, both through…

Or even both. In any kind of continuous deployment, you'd expect outages at the point of deployment, or shortly thereafter as the unintended consequences ripple. Then the load duri…

PDF files can be signed, that is tamper resistance. Tamper resistance doesn't have to make any difference to the readability of the document.

There’s a common scaling heuristic, related to Greiner’s growth model, that organizations need to fundamentally change how they operate as they grow. I recall numbers that every ti…

Economics has this concept called revealed preferences[1]. These are preferences that people don't say that they want, but is what they actually use preferentially. An example of t…

This "receive heavy scrutiny" is part of the problem that is raised in the article though: > You are friends with all the senior TLs, so can get them to review your code, but this …

Even ignoring that "you" as an individual are not affected by this, there are plenty of things that "you" as an individual cannot do with your own property. For example, a lot of p…

You would be surprised I think. I know a bunch of people who use Siri, for all sorts of things. I personally regularly use the "push to activate" Siri for quickly setting up meetin…

And, indeed, if you look at the author's writeup, you see exactly that the generated code satisifes `(rotate == true || rotate == false) == false`, since rotate is checked explicit…

This is mentioned on the first page of the paper: > Building on theoretical work by Dietzfelbinger and Walzer [8], we propose a novel practical approach, the binary fuse filters. T…

For those that don't know why, and I didn't, the reason for this is that Tilapia are "mouth brooders", that is they keep the fertilised eggs in their mouth. So throwing away a dead…

An interesting article, however my question is technical. In the "The Mechanism of Extraction" section, how is that image made? It is nicely laid out, and has a nice "hand-drawn" f…

I assume that you are talking about the [devcontainers LCI]( https://github.com/devcontainers/cli ) when you say "a CLI"?