This is a big surprise to many people, as in the first round the right was doing much better in terms of votes and seats. We’ll learn more soon, but in the meantime I am reminded of one of the paradoxes in the theory of expressive voting. You might want to send a protest vote, [… … | Continue reading
1. Esther Duflo calls for a new French left (FT). And South African power generation is improving (FT). 2. Bukele says keep your prices down. And here is some possible context. If you read, do read both. But reading this yet further explanation, I don’t think it is much of a save … | Continue reading
Learn about different ways of naming threads and thread pools in Java's ExecutorService. | Continue reading
Using a small sample of couples before and after they have children, Alex Gazmararian finds that support for climate change policy increases after people have children. People also become more future-orientated when primed to think of children. The short time horizons of citizens … | Continue reading
“Morehouse College is planning to use AI teaching assistants to help crack the code of education. Why it matters: Morehouse professor Muhsinah Morris says every professor will have an AI assistant in three to five years. Morris says the technology has taken off in the last 24 mon … | Continue reading
I know most of them, a very good list: So far I have as S Tier: The Act of Killing Apollo 11 Planet Earth 1/2 The Beatles Get Back Searching for Sugar Man Free Solo (?) Citizenfour (?) Anything else? Did not make the list, but great: Herzog stuff Blue Planet Our Planet Behind the … | Continue reading
Learn how to get the insert IDs of inserted records using JDBC PreparedStatement. | Continue reading
1. Do AI compansions reduce loneliness? 2. Inflation rates across the income distribution. 3. Was the Antikythera mechanism a kind of lunar calendar? (NYT) 4. There is now a Suno song “Incentives Matter.” 5. Did a forgotten priest predict black holes in 1783? 6. The Joy, from Sou … | Continue reading
Comments 100% updated at 8:58 this morning Without cheating, which of these handsome fellows would later be immortalized in literature? The picture was taken in 1898. It's tough to post these any more, since reverse image searches are so easy... Related Stories The Week of the Ye … | Continue reading
Comments 100% updated at 11:05 this morning I had a wonderful couple of days! I did nothing. Not only that, but I didn't think of doing anything, either. I do have days in the normal course of events during which... Related Stories Happy Fourth of July! The Panasonic Situation I … | Continue reading
...To those of you who celebrate it. You probably can't tell what this is... ...It's Butters hiding from the booms. The noise of fireworks. When he hides like this, he stays there even after the fireworks have stopped. I have... Related Stories The Panasonic Situation I Need a Ne … | Continue reading
Explore the differences between reading a file from the classpath using getResourceAsStream() and reading a file from the filesystem using Files.newInputStream(). | Continue reading
Explore how to address the PSQLException error "column is of type json but the expression is of type character varying" that arises when using JPA to map Java objects to PostgreSQL JSON columns. | Continue reading
Learn how to create a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Application with Redis and Spring AI. | Continue reading
Let's explore the three common use cases for message conversion: POJO/record serialization and deserialization, setting a custom ObjectMapper, and deserializing to a subclass/interface implementation. | Continue reading
Learn how to insert JSON objects into a PostgreSQL database using Java's PreparedStatement. | Continue reading
Learn how to work with large language models (LLMs) to generate structured responses with Spring AI. | Continue reading
This tutorial explains how to avoid the UnsupportedTemporalTypeException in Java's Date-Time API, specifically when converting a LocalDateTime to an Instant. | Continue reading
Comments to previous posts were 100% updated as of 10:37 ET this morning Did you read the Featured Comments from yesterday? There's a lot there. I didn't mean to get on to the topic of day rates and reminiscing about... | Continue reading
Learn how to containerize a Spring Boot application using Podman Desktop. | Continue reading
Explore the performance differences between two basic Java classes for writing files: FileWriter and BufferedWriter. | Continue reading
Let's explore how to write effective tests to verify our CORS configuration using MockMvc. | Continue reading
Delve into why this error occurs, identify common scenarios that trigger it, and see how to resolve it. | Continue reading
Quick tutorial on how to read the last N lines from a file using different standard Java packages and the Apache Commons IO library. | Continue reading
Comments to previous posts were 100% updated as of 11:54 ET this morning I wanted to add one more thought to yesterday's post. I worked as a professional photographer for about five years (now that I go back and count... Related Stories My Years As a Working Pro | Continue reading
Meet Jakarta Data, import modules, enum mapping in Hibernate, no more unsafe and string templates, and debugging in K8S! | Continue reading
A quick and practical comparison between CompletableFuture join() and get() methods. | Continue reading
Explore different methods for performing arbitrary-precision arithmetic operations on binary numbers in Java. | Continue reading
Explore the difference between Hamcrest's hasItems(), contains() and containsInAnyOrder(). | Continue reading
Learn how to use Hamcrest to assert that a value is null or not null. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to working with multiple repositories with Maven. | Continue reading
Explore the TigerBeetle database and its features. | Continue reading
Comments 100% updated as of 10:35 ET this morning One of the very best things about being a photographer is that you get to poke around. When I did work for hire in D.C., I was the junior partner in... | Continue reading
In case you think you might want to live in a rural paradise like the gorgeous Finger Lakes, you might want to think again. My dog Butters got bitten by another doggie last Thursday. He got a rather nasty deep... Related Stories Apologies (OT) Open Mike: The Great White Whale Pic … | Continue reading
Quick tutorial on how to store and retrieve BLOB data using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). | Continue reading
A quick tutorial on the Vertical Slice Architecture along with several practical implementations. | Continue reading
Learn how to integrate the Logbook library with Spring Boot using minimal configuration. | Continue reading
Learn how to add delays when testing using Thread.sleep(), Awaitility, and Mockito's Answer. | Continue reading
Learn how to find the maximum value of a particular column using Spring Data JPA. | Continue reading
Remember my warnings about the FDAs takeover of lab developed tests? …Lab developed tests have never been FDA regulated except briefly during the pandemic emergency when such regulation led to catastrophic consequences. Catastrophic consequences that had been predicted in advance … | Continue reading
That is the new book by Nick Lloyd, it will be making my best non-fiction of the year list. Reviews are very strong, and you can either pre-order and wait, or order it from the UK, or buy it in the excellent Hedengrens bookshop in Stockholm. Here is one short bit: As always wit … | Continue reading
TC: “Is the Stiglitz-Shapiro 1984 efficiency wage model actually a model of sticky wages, or not? Is either the real or nominal wage sticky in that model?” Claude: The Stiglitz-Shapiro efficiency wage model from 1984 is not primarily a model of sticky wages, although it can have … | Continue reading
Comments were updated by 9:48 ET this morning Pentax 17 This is kinda funny: Hugh Crawford complained about the unaligned slot-heads on the screws on the front of the Pentax 17 in a comment here. Then Samuel Dilworth found a... | Continue reading
This morning we are reached by the somber news that photojournalist Linda Tirado, who is now 42, is dying of wounds she received while covering the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis in 2020. She took every precaution, obeying police instructions... | Continue reading
Back then, Europeans embodied environmental advocacy, self-actualization, self-expression and other values described by the University of Michigan political scientist Ronald Inglehart as “post-materialist.” Europeans actually used that term. They were proud of it. Today, European … | Continue reading
1. LLMs have sharply diminishing returns in model persuasiveness. 2. Review of the new Beach Boys documentary. 3. Are men more influential than women? 4. Olivier Blanchard on the economic policies of various French policies. 5. In Stockholm there is a large statue of Rick Rubin. … | Continue reading
Learn how to to create a seamless mapping between Java enums and PostgreSQL enums. | Continue reading