Explore various strategies and techniques to effectively refresh and fetch entities after saving in JPA. | Continue reading
["Open Mike" is the Editorial Page of TOP, in which Yr. Hmbl Ed. betimes pouts, oft proclaims, yet ever opines.] Richard Skoonberg commented, on the "Nikon-RED" post: "I have always had a passion for photography, however, I spent approximately 10... Related Stories Honesty. Isn't … | Continue reading
1. A YIMBY victory in Wellington, New Zealand. And boarding houses are underrated. 2. Eric Lombardi on an abundance agenda for Canada. 3. Christopher Beam and Catarina Saraiva at Bloomberg cover EJMR. 4. Luis Garicano thoughts on the Levitt podcast with Hartley. 5. John Nye on th … | Continue reading
Every now and then a particular photograph protrudes into the news because it draws the public's attention. Right now it's a photo of a mother surrounded by her children, all grinning as madly as Americans. A few past examples of... Related Stories Life in the Big City (OT) eBay … | Continue reading
Steve Sinofsky, former president of Microsoft’s Windows division and now a VC, has an excellent deep dive on the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Act is very squarely aimed at Apple, despite the fact that Apple is not a monopoly and has a significantly smaller share of the pho … | Continue reading
I think they still favor the defensive. On the front line they make movement, hence offense, very difficult. In the strategic sense we’ve already seen Ukraine adjust to the propeller drone/cruise missile attacks. The first few months were terrible for them but then they organized … | Continue reading
Thomas is at the Templeton Foundation, here is the link (with transcript), here is one bit: Tom: …So, I know that you’re a voracious reader, you’re immensely curious. Going back to your childhood, what were some of your favorite books during some of those formative years? Tyler: … | Continue reading
Here is an appreciation from Texas A&M. The post Thomas Saving, RIP appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments I'm not sure whether Thomas Saving being appointed to manage ... by Brandon Berg In reply to mkt42. I think he came up with the .2% Medicare ... by Cancelled for wo … | Continue reading
1. Nobel Laureate Roger Myerson added to Russia’s black list. 2. IABD publications are now all generative AI-enabled (like GOAT). 3. Indiana bill for intellectual diversity in universities. 4. Some details in the TikTok bill. 5. Facts about Kenyans. 6. Claims about Dutch road lia … | Continue reading
At first people thought that drones favored defense, since Ukraine, in its war against Russia, was defending successfully with drones. But now Ukraine is using drones to attack Russia, and Russian oil refinery assets and warships. It is less obvious that drones are defensive asse … | Continue reading
Here is an outline of part of my lecture. I presented “free trade” (NB: it wasn’t totally free), the classical gold standard, and some modicum of free immigration (not everywhere) as three successful and mostly stable pillars of 19th century classical liberal achievement. Of cour … | Continue reading
It’s really, right now, I think the profession is very inward-looking. It’s rewarding people who do things that are seen as hard. It’s really blurring the lines between theory and empirics was structural in a way that it is an experiment that I personally don’t think has worked o … | Continue reading
1. Casey Handmer on how to feed the AIs. 2. What we would like to know about aging. 3. Are there good reasons to create giant sheep? 4. My colleague Michael Clemens on how deportations would harm U.S. job creation. 5. Have the liberal arts gone conservative? (New Yorker) 6. Marke … | Continue reading
El Salvador’s Congress approved on Tuesday a reform to remove income taxes previously imposed on money from abroad, in a move to attract more foreign investment. Money flows from abroad in forms such as remittances and investments in companies will now be exempt from tax, lawmake … | Continue reading
The shock therapy administered by Milei and his economy czar Luis Caputo right after the Dec. 10 inauguration is showing results. In a severely recessionary context, inflation is slowing down (February prices rose 13.2% in monthly terms compared with 25.5% in December) while fore … | Continue reading
Economics research has largely overlooked non-binary individuals. We aim to jump-start the literature by providing data on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender-based discrimination and express differ … | Continue reading
1. “Could an AI replace all music ever recorded with Taylor Swift covers?” 2. European Parliament passes the AI Act. 3. It’s happening. 4. Profile of Karl Oskar Schulz at Harvard. 5. “At 23, she landed a job at a 3-star Michelin restaurant. Less than 2 years later, she left to ru … | Continue reading
Thom accused me today of being "knee-jerk." Definition: "(of a response) automatic and unthinking." Sounds like ad hominem to me. I am many things (wayward, eccentric, crackpot maybe), but I promise, I am not knee-jerk. But to further illuminate where... Related Stories Nikon-RED … | Continue reading
Steve Levitt anecdote: economics has found its Bill Laimbeer. Other excellent anecdotes in the thread. And Levitt on publishing and academia, recommended. This superb podcast episode is a real coup for Jon Hartley, transcript also at the link. File under “too good to excerpt,” th … | Continue reading
Learn about the Java Date and Time API. | Continue reading
Explore the Java Apache Commons CLI library. | Continue reading
Explore multiple Java methods, including the URI class, Path class, FilenameUtils, and regular expressions, providing diverse approaches to extract the last path segment from a URI. | Continue reading
Learn how to find the peak elements of a list in Java. | Continue reading
Explore different approaches to finding the majority element within an array. Learn about their time and space complexities. | Continue reading
Thom has weighed in on the Nikon-RED merger in more detail now. Worth the read. The comment that struck me was, "RED brings Nikon instant credibility in the serious video and cinema market, something that would have cost many many millions and years to try to do from the mirrorle … | Continue reading
[Oooof! I goofed. I scrambled to get this done this morning, got it all done, then forgot to post it before I went out the door. Here it is, late. —Mike the scrambled egghead Ed.] I'm driving a loaner car today—a 1.5-liter 200-HP Acura Integra that shifts its own gears. My Acura … | Continue reading
Learn how to use OpenAPI Generator Custom Templates to generate customized client and server code from REST API definitions. | Continue reading
In this article, we look at the AuthorizationManager in Spring Boot. | Continue reading
Looks like today's post will be late...my car suddenly went on the fritz yesterday and I have to deal with it. All the warning lights went off. Lights I didn't even know were on the dashboard lit up. The Service Manager at the dealer said, "we call it the Christmas tree of lights … | Continue reading
Learn how to implement encryption and decryption using Blowfish ciphers with the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA). | Continue reading
Explore various approaches to simplifying array operations on JsonNode without explicitly typecasting it to ArrayNode in Jackson. | Continue reading
Learn how to get the initials of a name in Java. | Continue reading
Explore the FlatBuffers library and its capabilities to serialize and deserialize complex data. | Continue reading
Learn how to mock Amazon's Simple Storage Service in integration tests. Related StoriesHow to Mock Amazon S3 for Integration Test | Continue reading
BSTs efficiently solve problems, including finding a node's parent. Learn approaches to locate a node's parent, considering edge cases. | Continue reading
We may wish to add charts or graphs to our GUIs in Java. We look at how to achieve this with JFreeChart. | Continue reading
RED Komodo X There have been two significant consolidations in the photo industry recently. Nikon and RED Just three days ago Nikon announced that it has acquired RED Digital Cinema, a leading maker of high-end digital video cameras for moviemaking. RED will become a wholly-owned … | Continue reading
So here's an interesting issue about running a blog and acting as discussion leader, and promoting selected comments to "Featured" status. When I respond to comments inline, it increases the sense of community and responsiveness, and fosters a sense of involvement. But on the oth … | Continue reading
In this tutorial, we learn how to migrate an existing application using Spring Security 5 to Spring Security 6. | Continue reading
Forum review of [X] camera: Title: MY ENDGAME CAMERA!! By George* Review begins: "This is it!! This is the camera I have always wanted and it will be the last camera I will ever buy!!" Review might have continued, but doesn't: ...Because I just got it after weeks/months of focuse … | Continue reading
Generational ZGC, Java 22 and beyond, random generator, GPU programming in Java, and event interception! | Continue reading
The big news in the camera world this morning: the arrival the of the Leica SL3. Leica has put everything it knows how to do into one camera. For what it's worth, Leica was copying Sony long before Nikon, Canon, and Panasonic followed suit. The original SL came out in 2015, three … | Continue reading
Elmo and Ctein, 2015 A brief update on what an old friend of TOP is up to these days: Ctein, co-author (with John Camp AKA John Sandford) of Saturn Run, has written a new book, this time with David Gerrold, who is most famous in fandom for being the guy who wrote the famous Star … | Continue reading
Sorry this is so long, but I didn't have time to make it short. I'm really busy these days. Kirk wants me to walk 8,000 steps every day, and I have to write 500 250 words of draft on my book, and I'm learning to touch-type too. There's the dog, and the yard, and shopping, and coo … | Continue reading
An advertisement seen on The New York Times website. Whenever I tell anyone I live in New York, they automatically picture the City. Just FYI, I'm nowhere near New York City. I'm actually a lot closer to Canada (two and a half hours to Niagara Falls) than I am to Manhattan (four … | Continue reading
Learn how to generate a juggler sequence from a given starting number in Java. | Continue reading
Explore query hints in Spring Data JPA and learn how they can help optimize database queries. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to counting unique digits in an Integer using Java. | Continue reading