aev 4 months ago • 100%
It’s at this moment, Little Billy recognized his ideas aligned more with that of the long-time foe, than with those he had considered allies.
aev 4 months ago • 100%
Good. He can stay out.
aev 4 months ago • 100%
Sure! It won’t comply, though.
aev 4 months ago • 100%
The Windows 10 equivalent, Timeline, got discontinued in 2021. At this point in time it is unknown whether Microsoft will retrofit Recall into Windows 10. Knowing Microsoft it is safe to assume they’ll try anything for profit.
aev 4 months ago • 100%
Seconded: CryptPad and Obsidian.
aev 4 months ago • 100%
I like CryptPad by Framasoft, for big stuff.
aev 6 months ago • 100%
Microsoft has a history of doing so, both with Minecraft customers and others. They just don't care.
aev 6 months ago • 100%
Some web applications force me to open their screens in separate tabs and windows, by making the screens remove any filtering on revisit by back button. And thus I have 20 tabs open that all start with the same meaningless word.
pentesting, cybersecurity, cve
New symptom identified for Long Covid : post-exertional malaise, a.k.a. crashing and burning for days to weeks after mild exercise. Cause: serious deterioration of work done by mitochondria, leading to tissue damage and brain fog. NPR reports.
aev 9 months ago • 100%
"Could".
aev 10 months ago • 100%
Indeed. I'm not totally oblivious. Luckily I have learned a few phrases and figures of speech. But it seems I had a way harder time learning those than my school mates who weren't on the spectrum.
aev 10 months ago • 100%
Right! I totally missed that! Why is Jalopnik advertising for the Post?
aev 10 months ago • 100%
I took that AQ-10 test, and also pondered this particular question. No, I suck at reading between the lines. Give it to me straight, please. No beating around no bush.
Figures of speech pose an equal problem: I may just lack the cultural awareness that allistic people enjoy, but it's rare for me to understand a common phrase, and more often than not I'll invent a completely new one.
Reading between lines: do allistic people do that? How? Is it some skill I can learn?
aev 10 months ago • 100%
Thank you! As I'm learning more about my own autism, I'm quite willing to share experiences.
aev 10 months ago • 100%
No, they aren't. You can switch to their Universe patches anytime, at your own risk. If you want Canonical to mitigate that risk for you, you pay. Simple, really.
aev 10 months ago • 100%
Begoon!
aev 10 months ago • 40%
The Post? Really? Half of that article is an ad for the Post itself!
aev 11 months ago • 100%
All the good things Records bring are stifled by JPA and DAO conventions and requirements. I really hate JPA for that reason, and have avoided Hibernate in favor of my own DAO implementations.
Records will slash thousands of lines of code from my implementation and will make it infinitely easier to maintain, and trust down-stream.
Advances in the java programming language, version 16 and newer, slashed a million lines of code from my codebase. Maintaining my programs became easier overnight, due to this 1 secret trick: Records. Unfortunately version 16 was not LTS, so I had to wait until this year's release of version 21, which is LTS. Go read the linked article. It explains Java Records in a very approachable manner.
aev 11 months ago • 66%
From the perspective of maintenance and technical debt: yes, you do want your code to be as clear as possible. But some languages, like assembler and mindfuck, simply weren't designed to be semantically expressive. Assembler clearly states what is happening but not why. And mindfuck is created to be as hard to parse by humans as possible. Without a description of why things exist or what they should be doing, you're going to have a bad time.
Andrez Sainz de Aja writes that comments are a code smell: they make us lazy. Instead of using comments to convey intent, the coding should. But that is hard, so it is easier to write dumb coding and just put the intent into comments.
aev 11 months ago • 100%
With some of my smaller clients, the CIO is the same as the CTO and the same as the IT Director. There, IT is developers, too.
aev 11 months ago • 100%
Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they'd create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.
aev 11 months ago • 100%
Wouldn't it face the exact same security issues as VBA, with drive-by installs of obfuscated malware and executions of arbitrary code?
aev 11 months ago • 100%
Sure! I wrote all about it over on Medium: https://medium.com/@aev_software/java-jakarta-soap-wsdl-client-fails-to-read-soap-message-for-logging-38087a63ea6d
To summarize: custom logging handlers failed after upgrading to version 3, because the underlying implementation that exports a message as a SOAP message is broken.
aev 11 months ago • 100%
That indeed is annoying.
aev 11 months ago • 100%
Oh dear. That would work. But I'd lose the paper!
aev 11 months ago • 100%
Except that b comes before c, so it'll always recommend the .blog bookmark before the .com bookmark. This post is more about clarifying a stupefying situation. Solutions are a bonus.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
Dinosaur here. I started building web sites when JavaScript had yet to be invented. If articles like this exist for new features introduced since EcmaScript 5, I'm all ears.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
Cool. Just what I need: yet another version of a JDK/JRE to test. I feel like I spend more time testing these for regressions than I spend developing functionality for my clients. Anyway. Good for Adoptium and those who found and solved this bug.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
I started using Jakarta half a year ago, as it was promised to be the de-facto way to build a SOAP client that speaks to a WSDL server. Oh boy: growing pains. Did not expect that 2 decades of developer experience in Java EE would amount to nothing, for the people who implemented Jakarta. As impressive as the effort may be, the inexplicable regressions we faced when we got forced to upgrade to version 3 proved quite cumbersome.
Solution: delete all bookmarks that point to an article hosted at github.blog. Background: For the longest time, Firefox would suggest the github.blog web address whenever I type "github" into the address bar. I found that weird: yes the word "blog" starts with a letter lower in the alphabet than the word "com", but the ".com" TLD is much more popular so should show up first, right? Right... unless you, like me, have web search suggestions turned off when entering web address into the address bar. Instead, it takes suggestions from my bookmarks and open tabs, like I instructed it. Thus, Firefox is behaving exactly as designed and instructed, and the solution is to remove the bookmarks that point to github.blog. I only wish I'd had recognized that sooner...
Solution: delete all bookmarks that point to an article hosted at github.blog. Background: For the longest time, Firefox would suggest the github.blog web address whenever I type "github" into the address bar. I found that weird: yes the word "blog" starts with a letter lower in the alphabet than the word "com", but the ".com" TLD is much more popular so should show up first, right? Right... unless you, like me, have web search suggestions turned off when entering web address into the address bar. Instead, it takes suggestions from my bookmarks and open tabs, like I instructed it. Thus, Firefox is behaving exactly as designed and instructed, and the solution is to remove the bookmarks that point to github.blog. I only wish I'd had recognized that sooner...
Wow. Molly Holzschlag passed away. An invaluable force for adoption of web standards and usability. May Molly's loved ones find solace in sharing those memories that inspire them most.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
So they say. Remember they also promised not to track users, keep trackers away, and keep your browsing experience ad-free. They came back from that within a year.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
One would switch to a free JVM when other JVMs change their licenses from free to paid. OpenJ9 was the first free JVM to which I got introduced. Knowing it was based on the work by IBM, known for high performance and low memory footprint, it was a simple choice.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
Great questions and feedback! Thank you! Is it OK if I use them to augment my article?
Please find below my reaction. I may work this into the article some time this week.
Yes, there is a major stumbling block due to Javascript: it doesn't multithread well. One can use asynchronous programming (either with or without promises) or, as I did in that implementation, use time-outs. But none of that is very nice or elegant when it comes to continuing to process the game while accepting user input. They are a far cry from actually starting a separate processing thread, which is possible in other programming languages. Those can be used now that browsers started supporting WASM. Unfortunately WASM cannot interact with the DOM, meaning it won't help for GUI-intensive games.
Getting the frame rate right was a bit tricky. It depends on the time-outs set for refreshing the screen and moving the tetronimos. As the game speeds up, those time-outs get smaller and shorter. Lacking a frame-rate framework my program has to keep track of it and control it. That required some additional architectures that probably are handled better by phaser.
The mobile experience is interesting at times. I had built the GUI specifically with mobile devices in mind: tablets and smart phones of various sizes should be able to play the game without much of a problem. That's why the game buttons are positioned on the sides of the grid: within reach of the sides of the mobile device, to be operated by thumbs. And that's why there's 2 sudden drop buttons: one on each side.
One of the features of smartphones is to zoom in and out on double-tap, but since this game relies on fast tapping I had to build in a way to avoid that causing unexpected zooms. Another feature is scrolling in response to sliding ones fingers across the screen. With fast button pressing and switching, chances are some motions get misinterpreted as slides / swipes. Thus I had to disable that specifically. That can be a bit awkward when someone attempts to scroll the game display intentionally. I have not yet figured out how to work around that. Maybe I can add more room on the sides.
Over time more differing screen form factors appeared, and some phones (like the one I use today) differ so much from what I had available in 2014, that it makes game-play slightly more difficult. They make it so the game has to be zoomed out more than is comfortable for the button size. That has to be large enough for thumbs, and zooming out the entire game makes them too small. I can work around this by making the width the tetronimo grid a function of the available screen width.
The game is completely unplayable on smartwatch. It would need a separate form factor altogether.
My kids liked it just fine. Their biggest complaints were that the tetronimo blocks didn't move as soon as they pressed the move buttons, and that the game didn't have a soft drop option, like found in other Tetris clones. To this day they enjoy playing Tetris... even if it isn't the clone I built.
Again, thank you so much!
aev 1 year ago • 100%
:(
May his loved ones find solace in sharing those memories of him, that inspire them most.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
Oh, shocks. What a way to find out Bram Moolenaar passed away. A week ago? Where have I been?
aev 1 year ago • 100%
Off-topic: today I learned Google Groups was still alive.
aev 1 year ago • 40%
Vivaldi has no choice. They have built their browser on Blink, which is made by Google. Google will force them to comply. Their way out would be to go back to the Opera web browser, which they gave up on over a decade ago.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
The effect those people will have on profit margins probably are negligible, given the large amount of people using Google-created web browsers already.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
Great article. Well written, with just the right amount of detail for me.
aev 1 year ago • 100%
Looks like a problem with your theme. Try a completely fresh profile with no themes installed.
When attempting to save a file using MS Windows 10, into a folder to which other files are written at the same time, it's impossible to change the name the file should receive, as each new file causes an update of the save dialog, moving the file name cursor back to front. Discovered today, using Windows Pro, version 10.0.19044.2846
aev 1 year ago • 100%
Right! I had used streams a couple of times but for most work had switched to Eclipse Collections. Some payloads just work better when streamed and I was left wondering why nothing happened!
Chances are you forgot to kick it. The linked article is written by me. It explains how Java streams need a terminating operation in order to start any actions. For more explanations and code examples, do follow the link and read the article. It's free.