oldjavacoder

Rockets ... looks like rockets, except in the case I correctly referred to. Thank you.

True but there are some recent developments in the area of making them rechargeable.

A text editor is what I use, the pattern is a comment line beginning with a # sign followed by the thing or things I'm noting, interspersed with comment lines if needed, followed by one or more blank lines to separate the concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery

"However, an electric vehicle with aluminium batteries has the potential for up to eight times the range of a lithium-ion battery with a significantly lower total weight."

It just needs silver for a catalyst. :-(

I recommend a $200 Lenovo. It's tough to beat the quality.

I was trying to imagine what advertising works on me...none.

What does work is a family member, friend suggests something or even an article online that is genuine and not written by someone with a flare for social engineering.

"Just curious, what evidence do we have that humans are sentient"

The fact we can ask that question and most people on the planet have at least a simple understanding of what it means.

Remote works great for me, it has for many years, no complaints.

Lived here for over 1.5 decades and do not see a "decades-long drying". Texas isn't perfect but water management is something it does right.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-drop/

"Among the fifty states, Texas may rank near the bottom in many categories—including environmental protection (forty-fifth), quality of parks and recreation (forty-ninth), and availability of mental health care (forty-sixth)—but there is one area of public policy where it ranks indisputably first: water planning. No other state knows with such precision how much water it has and how much it will have in the future."

"The drought of the 1890’s killed off much of its nascent cattle industry. In the fifties a seven-year drought (Texas’s worst statewide drought ever) destroyed much of the state’s agriculture and caused 244 of the state’s 254 counties to be declared federal disaster areas. This led the state legislature to create the Texas Water Development Board, which published its first water plan in 1961."

For every time a climate change hand waver starts up, the answer is, yes climate change is real...it's how the Earth works.

What we need is for people moving to the state do do what we did and get rid of the back yard, make a nice rock garden, stop watering those massive lawns.

"My point isn't that inflation doesn't exist."

My wife tells me different, so I'm going with her real world experience in the matter.

It isn't racist or classist bullshit. It was that people liked cars for the independence they provided. Today's live in their parent's basement generation can't comprehend the concept.

The semaphore tower method could maybe have supported mixed signals with one operator dedicated to receive/forward and the other operator dedicated to acknowledge with a detailed response.

That's a mind blower, I did not know about it thank you.

I'd be for it except for the fact where Uranium mostly comes from. Like it or not, coal remains the energy reserve that potentially can keep the Us free.

Modern AI can barely drive a car under ideal conditions without crashing. The ocean is full of sounds. AI is decades away (still, and I've said this now for decades) from figuring out what it is hearing.

I saw a picture of a stretch of road in the west and started thinking about the 1800's and the striking contrast between the wild and the technological American landscape. It turns out Google has an interesting site, linked.

Agreed. ML (a component of AI) faces the same issue today as it always has, outliers, i.e. the real world.

The only languages worth their weight are Java and C.

Agreed on JSF productivity, also found the parent comment quite astounding in this regard.

I do Java as I've done for several decades. I tried C# years ago despite Microsoft. Java and the JVM are superior, technologically and morally to anything they can come up with.

Kotlin is not and never will be on my list of languages.

The fact that the pile of tools required to get a web to do anything useful is such a terrible mess including Angular and React is why I'm in full dismay that they are used by otherwise intelligent developers at all.

I've no interest in any Russian connected project including Kotlin, IntelliJ or nginx these days.

I'll give it a look, it's been years since I checked Vaadin out.

"You're relegated to the backend not because you know Java instead of Typecript, but because you don't understand the problems of frontend development."

I've designed a number of front-ends in various languages on various platforms and am very comfortable with vanilla web programming and design.

The reason I'm relegated to the back-end because 99% of front-end developers don't know how to program and choose garbage like JavaScript or based on it and are often intently amused by the mention of yet another tool out of hundreds that churn all that crap into something almost useful but hopelessly unmaintainable.

This sounds encouraging, yours is around the third comment I've seen so far about TeaVM.

Someone else mentioned TeaVM and SnapKit, I plan to look into those.

Definitely worth a look thank you! On another note, I've experimented successfully with https://www.jsweet.org/.

The cold sweat comment wasn't referring to my abilities, but to the thought that actual enterprises use the horrific combination of terrifying garbage called Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript and the legion of tools needed to make them do anything comprehensibly close to intelligibly useful in this year, 2022.

Another similar take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_expansion_of_the_....