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So Java is kinda slow. Its “everything is a class” mentality has lost favor as first-class functions have become popular through languages like JavaScript (no relation to Java) and Python. Even C++ has them now.

Independent of the language itself, Oracle (the company that owns Java) has become unpopular in the industry recently as they changed the way the Java Development Kit was licensed, making it significantly more expensive, and for being on the wrong side of the Google v. Oracle suit. (Literally everyone, from the OSF and the EFF to the “big five” tech companies took Google’s side.)

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They’ve already been on strike. They went on strike on the 5th. They’re asking people to refrain from voting, close voting, and accessing review queues.

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It actually makes some sort of weird sense if you can get past the inconsistent labeling. Since it’s a daycare, each option is probably an enrollment period, and they are arranged in reverse chronological order. Still weird, but perhaps not as outrageous as it initially appears.

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That was just crazy. And instead of owning up to it, they doubled down on the whole thing by having GPT invent fake rulings which they could claim to have cited and wrapped up the whole shebang by revealing that the attorney who filed the stupid thing wasn’t the person who “wrote” it and hadn’t even read it and therefore shouldn’t be held accountable for its contents.

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Is kill -11 even allowed?

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Rather than messing with the EventListener, wouldn’t it be easier to just throttle the function that it calls? You can find a bunch of articles online that will explain how to implement a throttle (and also a debouncer, which is similar, but not quite what you’re looking for; a throttle allows a function to be called immediately unless it’s already been called too recently, while a debouncer waits every time before calling the function and restarts the wait timer every time someone tried to call the function).

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If you’re random Joe Schmoe who happens to need a database, I don’t expect you to contribute. But when you’re of the largest tech firms in the world…

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On the other hand, the OOM killer is worst of all: “kill process or sacrifice child.”

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NEMA has called them “plugs” and “receptacles” for decades.

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You forgot “don’t say ‘thank you for pointing out that we were sending social security numbers to everyone who visits our website that anybody could stumble across,’ but rather ‘you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, hacker!’” Courtesy of the Missouri Department of Education.

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