Ask your user "why do you need this data," then have the machine solve _that_ problem.
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Flash was everywhere. Now it's gone. Sound familiar?

Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history. 📖

Join us for the book launch!
📅 Apr 23
🕠 Doors 5:30 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-...

If the same issue comes up in Tech Support more than a handful of times, you have a design, not a support, issue. Often, devs don't fix the core problem, so the support people come up with a book of workarounds. That book is a design document. It's your job as a dev to make that book unnecessary.

Well deserved 🙂

A hedgehog under a fence

3rd hedgehog sighting of the year

🎓 JEP 534 moved to candidate
Title: Compact Object Headers by Default
Type: feature
Component: hotspot / runtime
See openjdk.org/jeps/534

Lush green fields in the foreground, with trees along the edges. In the distance, there is a river, and behind it woodland and large hills.

Just arrived in Scotland. Not a bad view from our window at all.

Two hedgehogs nuzzled up on a lawn.

Spotted (after hearing some grunting...) two hedgehogs in the garden.

It's my 14 year wedding anniversary today. I'm a lucky guy, and we've had a nice day. Looking forward to many more!

👀 👓 🔎

#taskmaster starts Thursday April 9th. See you there!

It's been years since I've watched it, but I can't disagree with anybody who has given it praise so far. A brilliant cast, and it's just a damn good, compelling show.
I need to re-wach it in the near future....

A supermarket basil plant. It has been pruned to cultivate growth and has a bushy, shiny look.

You can buy a basil plant from most supermarkets, take a couple of leaves off it to put in your pasta sauce or whatever, and repeat the next week or two - or, you can prune it, feed it and in maybe two weeks have a plant you can repot, continue to grow and even take cuttings from to make more.

Good morning lovelies, enjoy a smile from this Pomeranian with a perfectly centered nose that makes it look like a one eyed alien.😉

Worth every penny at full price, if not more. Its easily one of the best books on not only the subject matter, but API design and OO coding too.

Them: "I wouldn't worry about it."
Me: "well, I wouldn't either, given the choice, but here we are"

🥳

Empty Should be Empty Why does empty cost so much in Java sometimes?

Empty should be empty!

The shock and surprise when I saw the memory cost of a Stream created from an empty List in #Java was audible.
donraab.medium.com/empty-should...

Did it make noises when they ran it, by any chance?

Explaining the Eclipse prefix in Eclipse Collections Eclipse Collections is a standalone open source collections library for Java

For folks who haven't looked at #EclipseCollections because they don't use the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse Collections (EC) and the Eclipse IDE are both independent projects at the Eclipse Foundation. 💡

Note: I created EC and have coded with IntelliJ for 24 years. 🙏
donraab.medium.com/explaining-t...

Want to level up your API design and #Java coding skills?

The book "Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game" can help.

GenAI tools can help you code faster.

ECC shows how to design/code better, for the machine and future readers. Mechanical and Symmetric Sympathy.💡

I had no idea, to my shame, how good a guitarist John Williams is. Watching some old Keith Floyd, an episode where John is a guest, and he just casually plays Recuerdos de la Alhambra like it's an Oasis track.

A perennial bug of mine. Arithmetician != mathematician.

It's the thought that counts

Kerim "KRIMH" Lechner – "NEGATIVE" (Drum Playthrough) YouTube video by TAMA Drums Germany

There's drumming, and then there's drumming.

Oo, this looks promising!

This machine pretty much got me to where I am now, in a way, so it will be my mission to make it boot to an OS again.

I tried for an hour or so to get the installer working - no dice. It still has a Grub bootloader despite running fdisk /mbr. HDD had quite a few bad sectors, but otherwise OK (all 3gb of it). I think I might need a Linix distro to fully DD it back to properly empty and try again.

The BIOS screen is showing on the laptop

It still powers on, too, and there's even a Win 98 se disc in the drive...