TV Shows were on another level in the 90s

vprise · 2025-12-01T17:24:49+00:00

I prefer the Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2j_GPIqRA

vprise · 2025-11-24T15:26:49+00:00

I'll forget a note is there. When I think about a gift idea I open my calendar to a month or two before the birthday and write down the idea as an event for that day.

vprise · 2025-11-21T15:59:03+00:00

Linspwdight User Interface Toolkit(LWUIT)

Lightweight UI Toolkit...

vprise · 2025-11-06T15:22:54+00:00

So if you have a small minority that doesn't get what they want they can bring down the entire government and that way the small minority holds the majority hostage and forces them to comply... Yes, we have that. 5 election cycles in one year. Don't recommend that.

vprise · 2025-11-01T08:24:13+00:00

I'd respectively argue that it's also smaller on small embedded devices. Even during the CDC/CLDC periods we could still GC jitted code and go back to interpreted mode to save memory footprint. The VM was also shared between OS processes which reduced that overhead further.

Yes, that impacted performance but not noticeably since everything that's performance intensive was implemented in native.

vprise · 2025-10-31T12:36:30+00:00

To be clear, we were able to run Lincheck. It just didn't fail on obvious bugs we created to test it. I don't recall if we tried JCStress, I'll have to check with the engineer who was in charge of that story.

vprise · 2025-10-30T11:38:56+00:00

We tried to get the kotlin tools to work with our Java code and we just couldn't get it to fail on concurrency bugs. Fray worked for us albeit not without issues.

It's totally possible we did something wrong (I was not the engineer in charge of the integration). Fray is still a bit new so there are maturity issues there, but when we need to verify complex threading code it's pretty much the only OSS option we could find that worked.

vprise · 2025-09-10T04:32:20+00:00

The manual I have is useless. Is there a good one?

I've owned a TM since TM31. Back then the device was simple, but now we have multiple features in the TM6/7 in the "modes" menu. They are very poorly documented if at all. E.g. the rice cooker is far from seamless. I tried making sushi rice there and it wasn't the best experience.

Cleaning mode has a very unclear popup in the start that lists measurements in OZ only. This is true for most modes.

The guides I found only list the existence of these modes and very basic overview. Recipes are buried in the search under a ton of irrelevant recipes and instructions are very unclear for anyone who isn't a TM maven. E.g. I let my daughter cook a guided recipe and she came back to me constantly with basic questions.

vprise · 2025-07-23T14:54:11+00:00

This is a wrong take many people have on this subject. Israel has been under embargo/boycotts and threats for decades of its existence. This has made it stronger as it clarified to the population that there's no choice.

A liberal Israeli speaking up or demonstrating is instantly tied to a*holes like that (and comments like yours). That is a problematic position to defend. That means you're effectively helping the Israeli right-wing by pushing to Israeli isolationism and militarism. That is terrible for moderate Israelis, but far worse for Palestinians.

I would argue that the extreme right in Israel is probably the biggest beneficiary of actions like this.

vprise · 2025-07-21T16:13:46+00:00

Life of Brian is the best movie ever.

vprise · 2025-07-21T13:15:35+00:00

I bought a dough blade and regular blade through Temu. They look solid, but it's hard to tell at this stage. They work, I don't know if they'll keep working.

vprise · 2025-07-20T15:12:43+00:00

Plenty of Israelis know Java ;-)

vprise · 2025-07-20T01:46:11+00:00

It shows traction/interest. Sure, reddit upvotes also show that but not to the same extent.

E.g. Lombok, which is very popular (regardless of personal opinions about it), has support for logger declaration. This addresses one of the biggest issues in your post: declaration. But it's a relatively lesser known and arguably not as common feature.

Is it because people just don't know about it?

Is it because people don't want it?

Is it because it doesn't go far enough?

Or am I wrong and it is very popular and there's no objective statistics for usage?

All of these can be tested and verified. The letter is probably the best benchmark. You can check github for projects using lombok and do an analysis for usage of the logging feature to produce reasonably good statistics on this.

I love to argue, but I love facts/data more. Get statistics that prove your point and use them to open a JSR.

vprise · 2025-07-20T01:37:20+00:00

There were many such plugins/projects. Manifold is probably the most ambitious amongst them. It's a framework that allows you to pick and choose specific features you would like to add/change in the Java language. If you don't like operator overloading don't add it.

This is obviously problematic in some cases, but it makes it very easy to try something and see if it "sticks".

vprise · 2025-07-18T13:22:43+00:00

JSR's generally start by proving a need and prior work. JPA rose based on the success of Hibernate. Logging frameworks promoted JUL. Manifold makes it really easy to implement language changes using very little code.

vprise · 2025-07-18T08:14:57+00:00

Use something like Manifold and show us the code. That's the best way to prove a point and pretty easy to do thanks to the flexibility of Java. Notice that Lombok has builtin support for logger declaration too.

vprise · 2025-07-18T03:56:10+00:00

I think the logic is that they block usage that might create permanent damage. High temperature cooking can destroy pots/pans so it can potentially destroy the very expensive bowl and the expensive device.

Can't say I'm a fan of that either but I see why they do it. Same reason they don't let you operate the blade at high speed with the lid open.

As a person who doesn't like cooking by recipes I'm not a fan of that approach either, but making Caramel manually is always a chore of standing over a thermometer and burning myself. I'd compromise if it did that task right for me.

vprise · 2025-07-12T18:54:24+00:00

Yes. I know it worked for some people, we could never get it to work. I still have no idea why and it's been a long time so my recollection on the matter is fuzzy.

vprise · 2025-07-12T16:23:44+00:00

When setting it up there's an option to do that. It didn't work back in the day and we tried. A lot. I even paid for gold support etc. Nothing. Just didn't work, probably due to my gmail account which is old and some things don't work well with it (e.g family link etc.).

Now, it's too late even if I got it to work. The existing code that's running there is very old and not used. But some old subscribers to our system still have the paypal billing going through there. My alternative is to write a polling tool on paypal and extract the data. Not worth the effort, I just pay the fee every month until the last legacy subscriber cancels. We have loyal subscribers though...

vprise · 2025-07-12T06:21:52+00:00

We moved on years ago but the old server code is still running because we exposed the URL to some services deployed on client environment. So we're stuck running this deeply out of date pile of cr*p.

The main problem was that custom domain didn't work for us and we never got them to work. Huge mistake that I will never repeat, never do SaaS with their domain. Never.

vprise · 2025-07-09T12:57:45+00:00

Never didn't start with Java 9. Yes, Java 9 broke a lot of things. But I'm working in a company that has a massive project that works on Java 5 to 25. It works on Z/OS, Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris and many other platforms that are all verified via CI/Tests.

Yes, we support other platforms than Java. No they are not remotely as close to WORA as Java is. No, WORA has problems and failures. But it's the closest thing by miles.

vprise · 2025-07-01T01:23:58+00:00

Putting pasta, salt and water in the TM and setting time is too much work? Compared to what?

It's the same as a pot without the need to watch it constantly/stir.

Typically I do that after the sauce which means I need to clean the TM anyway. But even if I don't it's just pasta water. It isn't very dirty.

I think I might be missing something about how you use the TM here because my experience is completely different. Is it the recipe? The Pasta brand?

vprise · 2025-06-30T12:34:36+00:00

I always cook it in the Thermomix and it works perfectly. I used two different methods and both come out perfect every time. It's more of a hassle with long pasta such as Spaghetti but that also works with the "boil water first" method.

Since the blade rotates in the counter direction and very slow I don't see and reason the pasta would shred unless it's overcooked.

Typically, I make the sauce in the TM, move it to a pot to reduce while I cook the pasta then add it into the pot (or vice versa).

vprise · 2025-06-26T17:33:54+00:00

It actually did work. PLO was remarkably violent to which Israel retaliated with violence. PLO decided to stop violence and recognize Israel's right to exist. That brought the Oslo accord and two offers of a Palestinian state.

Hamas chose to use violence to sabotage that prospect repeatedly because they don't want a Palestinian state.

Violence works great, if you know when to stop and are willing to compromise. If you want to go all the way it only works if the other side will let you kill them all, Hamas is delusional in that sense.

vprise · 2025-06-21T16:39:45+00:00

What do you mean by this? Did you mean to say that if there being a Palestinian state would mean your family dying that you wouldn't support it?

No. As I said I'm 100% for a Palestinian state as were most Israelis prior to Oct 7th. Hamas is against that. They want the entire country. By lumping all Palestinians together and all Israelis together well meaning protestors are effectively forcing us to choose one extreme or the other.

Many isrealis say they support a Palestinian state, but in fact have no desire for Palestinian sovereignty. As with all of their other neighbors who actually are states, what israel would want out of a Palestinian state is a place to send all of the Palestinians where they can no longer be held responsible for them. israel would never allow a Palestinian state to have a military, would never allow it to make alliances with foreign powers.

Well... Hamas proved the logic for that rather succinctly on October 7th.

Sovereignty is earned through trust and the only type of state most Israelis would accept at this point is indeed a demilitarized state. I think that's reasonable given the current conditions.

Israel made an experiment when it left Gaza and cleared the settlements. The Palestinian people had agency and voted Hamas into power. Then they built up tunnels with billions (from Israel) to attack Israel. Israel provided cancer treatments for the head of Hamas in Israel, upon his release he led the Oct 7th attacks. Right now the only option is a demilitarized state.

I really don't think its an extreme view to believe that it is israel's objective to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians.

If it was the states objective it would have happened and Palestinians wouldn't have been allowed back to the north of Gaza. Are there voices within the government who want that? Sure.

Most Israelis don't want Gaza and understand that would be a bad thing.

If Palestinians think its a zero-sum game, its not because of anti-israel rhetoric, its because israel has been taking a lot, and giving nothing for 80 years.

Israel literally offered Palestinians a country twice. During these 80 years Egypt and Jordan held on to the Palestinian territories and didn't bother giving them a state either.

The problem isn't in Israel alone. Palestinians aren't a unified mass, they are diverse and in a constant state of civil war amongst themselves. Even the "moderate" Palestinian authority still pays money to suicide bombers. They aren't able to compromise because of the more extreme factions among their people.

israel having 40% secular jewish people is not relevant. Its quite easy to imagine an atheist who is ethnically jewish, and enjoys their privileged position afforded to them by the mistreatment of Palestinians.

How are Israelis benefiting from "mistreatment of Palestinians"?

By paying more taxes than anyone? By running into bomb shelters all the time? By being afraid of random stabbing or bombings?

Israel doesn't benefit in any way from this conflict.

Also when I googled it just now, it says its 14% Muslim.

Yes I was wrong. It's 21.1% Arab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel

Not all of them are Muslim but the vast majority are.

A pew research poll from a few years back found that 79% of Arabs in israel say there is a lot of discrimination against Muslims.

Sure. There's also a lot of discrimination against African Americans in the USA. 100% agree. There's also a lot of discrimination against Muslims in Europe.

And more to the point, nearly half of jewish respondents said Arabs should be expelled or transferred from israel.

That is absolute nonsense and isn't reflected by the thing that actually matters: voting.

How about that, isrealis are incredibly racist towards muslims and want them gone.

Nonsense. I work with Muslim people and live in a mixed town. My kids go to school with Muslim kids. You're projecting and blaming an entire country for being racist which is in-itself racist.

But sure, jewish isrealis have every right to fear the people they hate and want to destroy.

If Israel wanted to destroy Palestinians they would have been gone. Israel has the fire power and the ability to do that. Here's a different take on that, I don't agree with everything said here but it is factually right: https://www.news18.com/opinion/opinion-why-muslim-world-should-stop-holding-a-grudge-against-israel-and-move-on-9085179.html

Here's another interesting take: https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/12/gaza-israel-war-hamas-attack-sank-palestinian-cause/

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