kittylyst

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

Kate, 23, said it wasn't as hard to buy a house as people made out.

"I just cut my expenses. Unlike my friends, I didn't go out, I ate at home, I watched free to air TV instead of Netflix and I thrift shopped. Add that to the $500,000 my parents gave me for a deposit, and I was able to achieve my goals in just 6 months"

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ianbetteridge, 2 months ago to random

Imagine, for one second, if a national newspaper referred to gay young people as “sexuality distressed”, rather than just calling them “gay young people”.

kittylyst, 3 months ago to science

Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die - https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/ #science #astronomy

kittylyst, 4 months ago to Barcelona

Words to live by. #streetart #barcelona

kittylyst, 5 months ago to DoctorWho

In case you don't happen to speak BBC this basically translates as: "Lol, get fucked TERFs". #doctorwho

vicgrinberg, 1 month ago to random

For a bit of Sunday happiness & silliness: tell me about some a book you've recently excitedly told someone about and why!

I've talked about Erin Meyer's "Culture Map" because it opened my eye to a lot of intercultural interactions I have in both, my everyday and my work life.

And about Marcin Wicha's "Things I Didn't Throw Out" because it made me laugh and cry at the same time + made me fall in love with Daunt books because I would not have found out about the book without them.

#bookstodon

kittylyst, 3 months ago to python

Congrats to the #Python folks for merging the first patches to disable / remove the GIL.

An excellent reminder that making deep-level changes of mature programming environments takes time, patience and a lot of very diligent work by smart and conscientious people.

In this case, I think it's taken just under 20 years. A fact I'll keep in my back pocket for the next time anyone wants to complain about how long major changes take in #Java and the #JVM

kittylyst, 4 months ago to Software

Stolen from a friend's FB: "In a Teams chat today I referred to something as being a 'Salmon Project'.

Navigate the rough seas, fight your way upstream - and at the end you get fucked and die." #software #softwaredevelopment

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

Sound familiar?

kittylyst, 11 months ago to Java

Get a free copy of one of my #java books - https://developers.redhat.com/e-books/java-nutshell-guide - courtesy of #redhat

kittylyst, 1 month ago to DoctorWho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxaW-lrDqY - Nucti being a cutie and describing past Doctors

But - his first memory of the show being The Christmas Invasion? Ouch, now I feel really old. #doctorwho #scifi

kittylyst, 1 month ago to space

There is a decent chance of seeing the #aurora tonight, over a huge chunk of Northern Europe (perhaps as far south as Switzerland) - https://www.space.com/solar-storm-coronal-mass-ejections-mothers-day-weekend-storm-watch - the sun is having a major geomagnetic event. #space #science

kittylyst, 1 month ago to opensource

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - I wonder what Adam Smith would have made of #opensource

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

Two great "burying the lede" examples in one day - https://archive.is/WyKMh - this is actually a ludicrous puff piece for an NFT company (NFTs? In 2024? Really?) cc/ @davidgerard

kittylyst, 13 days ago to random

kittylyst, 26 days ago to random

Basically this.

kittylyst, 1 month ago to DoctorWho

OK, super random thought - but what if The Devil's Chord was not originally intended to be the 3rd episode of the season (as there is, per dialogue, a 6-month gap between the end of Space Babies and TDC) but that the season was rearranged after filming to air TDC on the same day as Eurovision?

So, we may, in fact, be seeing the season out of order. It would make some of Ruby's dialogue in TDC make a bit more sense. #DoctorWho

kittylyst, 20 days ago to Java

I wrote about the latest #Java Ecosystem report from New Relic: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/05/new-relic-java-2024/ - some interesting takeaways. In particular:

1.) Yes, you should definitely be thinking of Java 8 as a legacy version now

2.) #Oracle continue to lose ground as a #JVM vendor (from 75% market share in 2020, to 34.5% in 2022 to 20.8% in 2024) - now just a couple of points clear of Eclipse's Adoptium distribution and Amazon's Corretto,

kittylyst, 15 days ago to random

Just saw some numpty complaining that Israel getting criticized is unfair when Russia, China, "African warlords", "authoritarian Muslim leaders" kill civilians every day.

Mate, the fact that you can't even see the extent to which you're telling on yourself is breathtaking.

kittylyst, 15 days ago to random

Unironically heard on just a call right now: "The platform is global, so the amounts will always be shown in US Dollars".

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

You will likely need a strong stomach, but I think it is quite important that you read this piece: https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/

kittylyst, 19 days ago to Java

Xcode cannot find metal for some godforsaken reason, so no #OpenJDK build on the Mac today.

Over to the work Linux box, then I suppose. #Java

I don't have any #Mac experts among my followers who can help me figure out WTF is wrong with metal, do I?

kittylyst, 1 month ago to random

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag - be the middle-aged woman hitting fascists with your handbag that you wish to see in the world. #antifascist

mikemathia, 1 month ago to random

#Caturday

Jyoti, 1 month ago to random

In the middle of studio tidying / soldering XLRs, this song assassinated me:
https://youtu.be/nykWr50KeUU?si=ovjbROpzWRiZNadG

#CatBurns #Alone