Eclipse Collections features JDK-compatible List, Set and Map implementations with superior memory efficiency, rich API and many utility classes. It also features additional data types such as bags, bimaps and multimaps.
What's best: Its API docs are now on APIdia:
https://apidia.net/mvn/org.eclipse.collections

#java #javadoc

Reminder that the England flag (flag of St George) is also commonly known as the Butcher's Apron because of it's association with crimes against humanity (specifically, massacres).
https://mastodon.online/@iinavpov/115157051548383085

"Why do all these migrants have expensive mobile phones?!?!?"
A blog post from a decade ago which is, tragically, still relevant today.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/09/migrants-and-mobiles/

Listening to American YouTubers who do technical stuff (electronics, engineering,...) are truly painful and confusing. They constantly switch between imperial and metric. For example wire gauge is in AWG, but the polyimide tape is always in millimeters. The measurements and files/rasps are in imperial (e.g., 1/32nd or the other one), but 3D printing is in mm.

We are officially 201 years after British Weights and Measures Act of 1824. Maybe it is time all of us switch to #metric!

Took some time off & was subsequently inundated with slightly stressful & unexpected stuff on my return, so that's me telt. Pffft.

On the plus side
1. we went to the seaside which is a Good Thing &
2. I remembered it was Friday which is, frankly, a miracle.

As ever, have a good weekend, if you possibly can

#sillyScribbles #FridaySparklyDancers #nonsense

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If other jobs had the same hiring process as programming roles:

"For this sous chef role, we will only accept applicants familiar with modern cooking methods such as microwave ovens and freeze-dried Maggi powders".

#WritersCoffeeClub 3: Have you ever based a character on yourself? If not, would you?

Nope. I probably did when learning how to write in my teens, but figured out ages ago that I'm an incredibly boring monomaniac shut-in who's utterly uninteresting to read about. Maybe the odd anecdote slipped out over the years, but in general I try to base my characters on observation.

oh stop it, C.P. Snow, with your charming, slightly self-deprecating critique of "computer gadgets" from 1964!

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The Gadget Charm My second apprehensive question concerns an intellectual danger with great practical consequences. Cybernetics, as named by its founder, is a beautiful subject with great intellectual variety, depth, and complexity. I suspect, however, that the computer in certain hands could easily become a gadget. Gadgets are the greatest single source of misjudgment that I have ever seen, or that anyone has ever seen in scientific decisions in our time. People get fascinated by gadgets. They love them. They want everything to be explained in terms of their gadget. They think it is the answer to everything on heaven and earth. All the bad decisions I have seen have some element of gadgetry in them. And I suspect that computers in government are going to get into the hands of persons with mildly defective or canalized judgment and become gadgets. It will be astonishing if that does not happen.

It's amazing to be my full self around others and to be loved. ❤️

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Artist : #Twisted_Sister
Title : Don't Let Me Down

#GMPL
#Thursday

https://youtu.be/fEffE4VTeMI?si=gdoOOTEfWJ6uZxlc

I was going to go to that one-hour time travel place, but I got a text from my future self saying that traffic would make it take an hour and a half to get there so I shouldn't bother.

Wait, where did that text go?

It's kinda sad watching people on BlueSky worry that their engagement is low. Yeah, it's a smaller scientific community compared to Twitter, but so what? Chasing likes is exhausting. You should post unhinged shit to the Internet for the love of the game!

Me circa 1988 in the kitchen of my future mother-in-law. North Chili, Rochester, New York. She was a hard working immigrant with strong opinions but not unkind. #ThrowbackThursday

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Two Caucasian women in a kitchen with apricot colored walls dark cabinets and counters and frilly curtains. The older woman in the background has dark short hair and wears a navy & white polka dot dress and it always cleaning something. The younger woman (me) is leaning against the counter with her chin resting in her hand near a store-bought birthday cake (Hub's?) with chocolate frosting and yellow decoration. She's looking bored because she was never allowed to help as a "Guest" and is wearing unattractive loose pink and peach pastel clothes, with a short 80s haircut for her auburn hair.

There are so many cool performance tricks for JavaFX that I sometimes think I should write a book about it. But that takes a huge amount of time. I'll think a bit more about how to deal with this.
#java #javafx

Writing your own ebook and document reader is really nice when you're in college, because it lets you read all your textbooks and documents exactly how you want.
Writing your own ebook and document reader is also really awful when you're in college, because finding a bug will send you down the coding rabithole for 15 minutes during a lecture and now oops, you're not sure what we're doing.

Now I'm pleased to announce this single-user instance is hosted by me.
pros: I'm in charge of everything ☺️
cons: I'm in charge of everything 😓

- Best regards, Nadiyar

Me: hmm beautiful hat he's wearing

Are we live?