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I was really surprised to find out that the support for the STR string templates that was added as a preview feature in Java 21 was completely removed in Java 23 and there is no replacement at all.

That paper was an interesting read :) I googled a bit about it and found possible explanation https://replicationindex.com/2018/01/05/bem-retraction/

Is there a time limit for each player?

I was surprised that they didn't implement a "cancel" button too. Probably a strategy to discourage people from cancelling. I've managed to cancel using a chat though and it wasn't that bad.

Highly upvoted article about drawbacks of OSM. I think it's worth mentioning here to give another perspective https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394604

I would like to read more details about "The former is strongly preferred". Why is plain text preferred and by whom?

Funny, I've seen Nirsoft windows utilities on the front page and I thought that it might be a good idea to post a link to "Everything" too. I wanted to check if someone already posted it to hackernews and I found this submission made "2 hours ago" :)

Your comment made me wonder how services like archive.org that automatically save forum posts that may contain personal information are going to deal with GDPR.

I could not find any source telling he had anything in common with this song.

Thanks a lot for Miranda, I'm using it since 2006 I think. I don't rely so heavily on it as I used to, probably because of popularity of facebook and mobile chat applications, but I still find it useful :-) I started using a fork http://www.miranda-ng.org some time ago, which seems to be more actively developed.

It also reminded me about quines, I especially like the Quine Relay project which uses 100 different programming languages (each producing an input for the next one) to finally produce its own code https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

Well, I don't have similar experiences with SO. Sometimes I feel that easy questions are being answered very quickly by many people because everyone wants to get reputation points quickly, but difficult questions are often left unanswered forever as they require a lot of effort and don't bring as much reputation to the answerer (as their potential audience is not so wide).

If anyone else is getting errors when loading the page, here's the google cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-ciyXfS...

And there's also a browser-agnostic bookmarklet https://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for...

I've just tried playing "Your account has a balance of 100 dollars and 95 cents" on https://www.ivona.com/us/ and it seems quite natural to me (but I'm not a native english speaker so I may not be sensitive).

I've always wanted to create at least a small working Java library that could be potentially useful to someone and put it into the Maven Central repository to learn the whole process. I've finally managed to do it in 2015 by creating the LambdaFromString[0] library that can convert a string with code to Java 8 lambda at runtime :-) Surely not a rocket science, but still makes me feel a little bit proud.

[0] https://github.com/greenjoe/lambdaFromString

Thus the "Fast-forward 20 years" part :-)

Fast-forward 20 years, a plane crashes, they find and open the black box and in the flight logs they can see the cause clearly:

"undefined is not a function".

Something similar: tracert -h 255 xmas.futile.net

   21  ooooxooooooxooo.V.ooooooxooooxoooo [82.133.91.37]
   22  ooxoooooxooooo.MMM.ooooooooxxoooxo [82.133.91.18]
   23  oooxoooooxooo.EEEEE.oooxoooooxoooo [82.133.91.63]
   24  ooooxooxooox.RRRRRRR.ooooooxooooox [82.133.91.56]
   25  oxooooooxoo.RRRRRRRRR.oooxooooooxo [82.133.91.55]
   26  xoooxooooo.YYYYYYYYYYY.oooxooooxoo [82.133.91.58]
   27  ooxoooooxooooo.CCC.ooooooooxoooxoo [82.133.91.96]
   28  oooooxooo.HHHHHHHHHHHHH.oxoooxoooo [82.133.91.23]
   29  ooxooxoo.RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.ooxoooxoo [82.133.91.49]
   30  oxoooxo.IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.oooxooxo [82.133.91.60]
   31  oooxoo.SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.ooxoooo [82.133.91.42]
   32  oooxoooxoooooo.TTT.ooooooooooooxoo [82.133.91.61]
   33  ooxoo.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.oooxo [82.133.91.34]
   34  xxoo.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.oxoo [82.133.91.80]
   35  oxo.SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.ooo [82.133.91.40]
   36  ooxooooooooooo.XXX.oooooooooooooxo [82.133.91.35]
   37  oxoooooooooooo.XXX.ooooooooooooxxo [82.133.91.10]
   38  Oh.the.weather.outside.is.frightful [82.133.91.41]
   39  But.the.fire.is.so.delightful [82.133.91.19]
   40  And.since.weve.no.place.to.go [82.133.91.77]
   41  Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow [82.133.91.43]
   42  xXx [82.133.91.24]
   43  It.doesnt.show.signs.of.stopping [82.133.91.36]
   44  And.Ive.bought.some.corn.for.popping [82.133.91.73]
   45  The.lights.are.turned.way.down.low [82.133.91.76]
   46  Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow [82.133.91.67]
   47  xXx [82.133.91.38]
   48  When.we.finally.kiss.good.night [82.133.91.62]
   49  How.Ill.hate.going.out.in.the.storm [82.133.91.45]
   50  But.if.youll.really.hold.me.tight [82.133.91.78]
   51  All.the.way.home.Ill.be.warm [82.133.91.17]
   52  xXx [82.133.91.70]
   53  The.fire.is.slowly.dying [82.133.91.95]
   54  And.my.dear.were.still.goodbying [82.133.91.57]
   55  But.as.long.as.you.love.me.so [82.133.91.31]
   56  Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow.Let.It.Snow [82.133.91.53]
   57  oOo [82.133.91.94]
   58  Ho.Ho.Ho.Are.We.Having.Fun.Yet [82.133.91.64]
   59  M.E.R.R.Y.C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S [82.133.91.86]
   60  oOo [82.133.91.15]
   61  Dashing.through.the.snow [82.133.91.14]
   62  In.a.one-horse.open.sleigh [82.133.91.83]
   63  Over.the.fields.we.go [82.133.91.27]
   64  Laughing.all.the.way [82.133.91.71]
   65  Bells.on.bobtail.ring [82.133.91.79]
   66  Making.spirits.bright [82.133.91.75]
   67  What.fun.it.is.to.ride.and.sing [82.133.91.82]
   68  A.sleighing.song.tonight [82.133.91.98]
   69  oOo [82.133.91.29]
   70  Jingle.bells.jingle.bells [82.133.91.91]
   71  Jingle.all.the.way [82.133.91.81]
   72  Oh.what.fun.it.is.to.ride [82.133.91.21]
   73  In.a.one-horse.open.sleigh [82.133.91.30]
   74  Jingle.bells.jingle.bells [82.133.91.59]
   75  Jingle.all.the.way [82.133.91.32]
   76  Oh.what.fun.it.is.to.ride [82.133.91.74]
   77  In.a.one-horse.open.sleigh [82.133.91.87]
   78  M-E-R-R-Y--C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S [82.133.91.72]
   79  Have.yourself.a.merry.little.Christmas [82.133.91.90]
   80  Let.your.heart.be.light [82.133.91.47]
   81  From.now.on [82.133.91.12]
   82  our.troubles.will.be.out.of.sight [82.133.91.99]
   83  oOo [82.133.91.22]
   84  Have.yourself.a.merry.little.Christmas [82.133.91.68]
   85  Make.the.Yule-tide.gay [82.133.91.52]
   86  From.now.on [82.133.91.66]
   87  our.troubles.will.be.miles.away [82.133.91.54]
   88  oOo [82.133.91.93]
   89  Here.we.are.as.in.olden.days [82.133.91.25]
   90  Happy.golden.days.of.yore [82.133.91.89]
   91  Faithful.friends.who.are.dear.to.us [82.133.91.46]
   92  Gather.near.to.us.once.more [82.133.91.69]
   93  oOo [82.133.91.85]
   94  Through.the.years [82.133.91.39]
   95  We.all.will.be.together [82.133.91.33]
   96  If.the.Fates.allow [82.133.91.44]
   97  Hang.a.shining.star.upon.the.highest.bough [82.133.91.97]
   98  And.have.yourself.A.merry.little.Christmas.now [82.133.91.88]
   99  o.O [82.133.91.11]
   100  48.61.70.70.79.20.48.6f.6c.69.64.61.79.73.20.46.72.65.65.6e.6f.64.65.20.23.63.69.73.63.6f [82.133.91.51]
   101  oOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo.MyssT.oOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo [77.75.106.106]

Windows + Firefox => looks like cars don't work - some icons are not visible and all of them are just creating rectangles in the picture http://snag.gy/4fm3H.jpg

"forgetting to add brackets when expanding a single-line if clause (and Eclipse will nag me about unnecessary brackets if I try to play it safe)" - I believe that putting every if clause's body (even one-liners) inside brackets in Java is a good practice and I have never seen Eclipse telling it's bad.

Yeah but favicon appears next to the bookmarked page's title in browsers. If there's no favicon you can't say which page the bookmark leads to after deleting the whole title to save space :-)

"Sorry, no WebGL API support detected. Get a modern browser and come back again" with the newest Firefox. What's modern nowadays? Only Chrome? :-)