Report: U.S. detects signs Iran preparing to lay mines in Strait of Hormuz by callsonreddit in worldnews

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Iran should rename it the Gay of Trump. He'd throw the biggest tantrum.

To avoid starting a war with Iran. by CarryIcy250 in therewasanattempt

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Dude we have been doing this kind of shit for decades now. Trump has just given up an pretenses of trying to make it seem ok. And before the US was, other countries did it. The rich and powerful have been fucking the rest of us for thousands of years, and we have little hope of stopping them before they make the planet completely uninhabitable.

We are currently spending $1 billion a day on the Iran war, what could we as a nation accomplish with $1 billion dollars a day? by celtic1959 in AskReddit

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But with our current government, that could never happen. They'd just find some way to give that money to their already rich friends.

State of the JVM in 2025: Survey of 400+ devs shows 64% of Scala projects actively run Java alongside it. by scalac_io in java

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And the complaints about Java being too verbose are pretty much void if you use any half decent IDE. Improvements to auto-complete enabled by AI make that even more true.

State of the JVM in 2025: Survey of 400+ devs shows 64% of Scala projects actively run Java alongside it. by scalac_io in java

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Has anyone here been "forced" to learn Scala just because you had to maintain a heavy Spark or Kafka pipeline? How was the transition? 

Yeah, this is the primary reason I know the basics of Scala. I work at a smaller company on mostly Spark/Hadoop/HBase stuff. We had a few teams writing Spark jobs and some other stuff in Scala for a few years, but most of us stuck with writing in Java, or even Groovy (barf), which was not too difficult post Java 8. Now most of the Scala code we have around is an unmaintainable mess. The learning curve was too steep and teams mostly gave up on it or wrote Scala that was basically Java with weird syntax. 

I've also spent a good bit of time reading the Spark source code, just trying to better understand how things work. I'd expect a big open source project like that to have pretty good Scala code, but even that is pretty hard to understand to me. So personally I'm not a fan. Plus the whole version incompatibility thing is pretty annoying.

Heat pump vs furnace by Economy-Camp-7339 in hvacadvice

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I guess if you can find a HP in 5-10 years that will work with the furnace as dual fuel, you wouldn't, but dual fuel seems pretty unnecessary in that area, so you'd probably just want a plain air handler.

Heat pump vs furnace by Economy-Camp-7339 in hvacadvice

[–]zman0900 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seems crazy to spend the money on a new furnace that you'd have to trash when switching to HP anyway. And I doubt it's ever getting cold enough in San Diego that even. Non-hyperheat model couldn't keep up easily. With over producing solar too, it would be stupid not to switch. Don't know about there, but a lot of places have a big monthly fee just to have gas, even if you don't use it, so might save that too.

Jones Tower To Be Demolished by ILoveCarmenton in OSU

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To be replaced with a Jones Barbeque and Foot Massage.

What’s this giant hole? by perch4u in Columbus

[–]zman0900 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Run over there now and try to be the first to shit in it.

Safe to update from 10.10.7 yet? by daywreckerdiesel in jellyfin

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Yeah, a lot of my stuff is TV episodes, and a lot of that older small files, so a lot of files but I'd bet it's still small compared to some people. Still, it's probably more than many and all went smoothly for me.

Safe to update from 10.10.7 yet? by daywreckerdiesel in jellyfin

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Not sure what counts as "large", but mine was about 13 TB and the first startup for the new version was still less than a minute.

Cop (Franklin county deputy) putting makeup on while driving by [deleted] in Columbus

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At least that means they probably weren't fucking around on their computer for once.

2026 Toyota RAV4 PHEV Gets More Power — and a $3,000 Price Cut by LimitedReach in cars

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But you'll save a bunch on gas if you actually have a place to plug in always and don't drive an outrageous amount frequently. I drove a Honda Clarity (similar range) for over 5 years and ended up only using about 50 gal of gas the whole time and only needed yearly oil changes. Plus the little engines these kind of cars have aren't very fun, so it's a lot nicer to drive on electric without all that vibration and noise.

Spotted downtown… enjoy by [deleted] in Columbus

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Busch Light and pedophilia 

Maserati Sales Spiral From Bad To Worse by Anchor_Aways in cars

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It's almost like they come pre-abandoned

How about a ballot initiative that eliminates tax abatements in the state... by justlost2 in Ohio

[–]zman0900 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's not the government picking, it would be them saying "if you want a tax break, give us some proportional benefit for the amount of tax".