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kittylyst

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Queer, cisgender author / educator / software engineer mainly known for #tech stuff, especially #Java / #JVM / #performance etc.

Much more likely to post pictures of #cats and rant about society, #antifascism, food and #queer stuff than tech, though.

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

finestructure, to swift
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“With the increased limit of the acceptance queue, and a patched version of wrk, we can now conclude that swift is a good competitor speed-wise as a web application server.

Memory wise it blows all the other technologies away, using only 2.5% of the amount of memory that the java implementation needs, and 10% of node-js.”

https://tech.phlux.us/Juice-Sucking-Servers-Part-Trois/

kittylyst,
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@ratkins @finestructure Meh. Another day, another overly-simplistic benchmark that has nothing to say about real applications.

kittylyst,
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@finestructure @ratkins I'm afraid I don't have anything useful to say about this, other than: "Have a good Sunday".

rightardia, to random
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Hundreds of Gaza Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention

All the doctors and nurses in detention should be released unless there are exceptional circumstances.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/24/gaza-palestinian-doctors-hospital-detained-missing-disappeared/

kittylyst,
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@rightardia Yet another irregular verb.

You are taken into indefinite administrative detention.

They are being held hostage.

kittylyst, to Java
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Xcode cannot find metal for some godforsaken reason, so no build on the Mac today.

Over to the work Linux box, then I suppose.

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

array, to Java
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In other news, this week I've found a 16,600+ LOC #Java file in the "main" monolith which performs the bulk of business logic for the main web (interconnected to other monoliths and -from what I've been told- even way huger PL/SQL scripts with tens of thousands LOC). And this is just one file, of thousands.The file has no comments, is not documented anywhere, the variable names are far from informative, and there's at least one function with way more 1000 LOC. Now go and debug this. XD

kittylyst,
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@array @motofix Did they give an actual technical reason or just "That's How We Do It"?

Off the top of my head the only two I could think of are: Project uses OSGi extensively or Project still relies on ant as its build system.

Neither of those is a good reason, of course, but if it's one of them then it is at least a reason (even if both boil down to Sunk Cost Fallacy).

kittylyst, to Java
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I wrote about the latest 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.) continue to lose ground as a 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,

jonoabroad, to Java
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people, is Java Concurrency in Practice still the text to brush up on Java concurrency, or has it been surpassed?

kittylyst,
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@jonoabroad It's still a classic, of course. But there have been significant developments since it's been published.

Virtual threads are the obvious aspect in the core, of course. But non-blocking and event driven architectures have also had a significant resurgence in recent years.

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@jonoabroad I'm in the throes of updating my "Optimizing Java" book - https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/optimizing-cloud-native/9781098149338/ - but the concurrency (& distributed systems, which is another way that things have changed since JCiP) chapters are the last to be worked on, unfortunately!

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@jonoabroad Oh, and I have an upcoming class - https://learning.oreilly.com/live-events/java-concurrency-in-2-weeks/0636920087672/0642572001421/ - but it might be in the dead of night if you're in NZ.

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something I find extremely tiring about discussing software on here is that there are systems and environments with genuinely immutable constraints that I am intimately, professionally familiar with, and whenever I talk about them someone will inevitably respond as if those constraints are trivial short-term stumbling blocks that can be handwaved away in order to embrace their own preferred form of software. it comes up most commonly with people proselytizing FOSS, but it's not the only example.

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@gsuberland This.

One example I'm familiar with - specialist ISVs who are reliant on 3rd party components that are only certified on Oracle's JDK.

If they use any other JDK, they lose their own certifications to their own cutomers, which is an existential threat to you if your market is a heavily-regulated industry.

Those folks have no choice but to suck up the cost of Oracle support as the price of doing business.

"Just use OpenJDK" isn't a solution for those folks.

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    kittylyst,
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    @GossiTheDog Depends how you define it. There is a point of net worth where you are basically decoupled from what is happening in the economy - you no longer have to work & provided you don't do anything really stupid & have a diversified portfolio you will be absolutely fine for the rest of your life.

    The amount varies on what kind of lifestyle you want, and where you want to live - but $10M will do it pretty much anywhere. Those are the actual rich.

    kittylyst,
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    @GossiTheDog I said net worth, which is not remotely the same as income, and it varies widely depending on where you live.

    In the US, for example, you need a household income of over $500k to even make it into the 1%

    dpp, to random
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    The International Criminal Court prosecutor seeking arrest warrants for to Israeli officials. Very glad to see this!

    https://wapo.st/3WJ4OxO

    kittylyst,
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    @dpp It has to be enforced, though. Tzipi Livni came to the UK and basically nothing happened.

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    You have a computer with unprecedented power and what are you going to use it to do? Assign airport gates?
    Quantum Computing Gets Real: It Could Even Shorten Your Airport Connection
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/quantum-computing-technology-optimizations-2e3db5dd?mod=tech_lead_pos1

    kittylyst,
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    @jeffjarvis This is the worst timeline.

    kittylyst, to random
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    Basically this.

    kittylyst, to DoctorWho
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    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.

    vicgrinberg, to random
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    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,
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    @vicgrinberg "This is How You Lose The Time War" - by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

    and the site https://standardebooks.org/ for gorgeous, professionally produced, free digital editions of out-of-copyright & public domain works

    kittylyst, to DoctorWho
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    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

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    San Francisco sky update

    kittylyst,
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    @Viss @jwz The furthest-south reports of visible-to-the-naked eye I've seen come from ~41N - which would be about the CA / OR border.

    kittylyst,
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    @jwz @Viss That would be seriously impressive. I'll go and see what I can find.

    kittylyst,
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    @Viss @jwz Looking at the aurora hashtag, looks like the European experience bottomed out at around 41N (frustratingly, just north of BCN) and then another, stronger storm hit a couple of hours ago, so the American West got a bit luckier.

    kittylyst, to space
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    There is a decent chance of seeing the 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.

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