Just finished reading Animal Farm for the first time in my life. It was good, I guess, but almost exhausting in its lack of subtlety for metaphor and allegory. I suppose that's why you read it and learn about it in high school.
@jw 1984 is much better and it inspired a ton of sci-fi (and Chinese government). Also check out the movie "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam. It's loosely based on 1984 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
@gryzor Honestly I'm not sure anything else exists that I want to use. This has been spinning in my head all weekend. Maybe like something custom built on Ninja?
What I really want is Gradle2 1.0 where they break compatibility with all their baggage. Everything is sandboxed in workers and tasks expose only properties and there's no magic DSL shenanigans in Groovy or Kotlin but instead clear, descriptive, cohesive build APIs you can write in any JVM language.
If you ever donate to a political campaign make sure to use a dedicated or burner email address so you can blackhole the fuck out of it. It's truly amazing what absolute trash they think you agreed to receive by donating.
After casually searching for a decade I finally have my hands on a Sooner!
This is the very first Android phone which was never released publicly as it was for Google and carrier testing during prerelease development of the OS. It's also the physical version of the emulator skin from the M3 SDK, the very first public SDK, into which I stared for weeks. A month later, the third SDK changed the skin to a maroon full-touch screen to reflect the HTC Dream, the first public launch device.
A signal that I miss from The Fowl Place is notifications of likes/reposts on my own reposts of someone else. Basically a feedback loop of the degree to which the people who follow me enjoy the content that I repost from others.
Outside of JVM, Android, Kotlin, and Java, I'm very interested in Rust, Swift, LLVM, WASM, web, compilers, and more. I'll regularly repost things in those categories. And while I'll always continue do that, it was nice to see what from those was popular amongst you all.
@jw I've also noticed far less 'engagement' here than on that other place. I assume it's partly due to a much smaller follower audience, but even so it seems like there's not as much interaction on any given post. Which is fine, but... you do wonder if it's just going into the void and then why litter the void with more of it?
This ensures that I'm not tempted to use it, that it doesn't make background API calls, and that I don't lose any state when restored.
To re-enable
adb shell enable <package-name>
You can find installed packages with
adb shell pm list packages
and then grep for something like 'reddit' or a word in the app name. You can also find the package by browsing the Play Store on the web and then looking at the URL.