1. Sports and neurodiversity. 2. Twenty-five facts about The Winter’s Tale. 3. How do business owners run governments? 4. Toward a theory of optimal regret. 5. Robots in Japanese nursing homes. 6. The costs of anti-German sentiment during WWI. The post Tuesday assorted links appe … | Continue reading
I did get a bit of blowback on the topic of the Hahnel battery charger I wrote about. Some people feel it’s not a very good solution. Their reasons varied. Mine came, and I’m pleased with it, as I was... | Continue reading
…comments are open. Just don’t expect Alex and I to read it… The post If you must discuss today’s events… appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to M. M: I don't believe that the die was cast for ... by blue jay Nailed my election forecast!!! ... by John Smith I … | Continue reading
Nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a plane crash. We are now getting a live experiment in whether the nuclear sector is built of similar stuff, after federal regulators dropped a bomb on Friday night. In a 2-1 vote, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected an … | Continue reading
Ever found yourself writing multiple overloaded methods just to handle different numbers of arguments? Java's varargs feature might be the elegant solution you've been looking for. | Continue reading
Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data centre in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because a rare species of bee was discovered on land earmarked for the project, according to people familiar with the matter. Zuckerberg had planned to strike a d … | Continue reading
Here is a new paper by the following set of authors: Manuel Hoffmann Harvard Business School, Sam Boysel Harvard Business School, Frank Nagle Harvard Business School, Sida Peng Microsoft Corporation, Kevin Xu GitHub, Inc. Here is the abstract: Recent advances in artificial intell … | Continue reading
From a new and very interesting web site on that topic: Significant Increase in Causal Claims: The average proportion of causal claims in papers rose significantly from approximately 5% in 1990 to around 28% in 2020, reflecting the impact of the credibility revolution in economic … | Continue reading
Learn different ways to find the IP address of a URL in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to sign a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) using the Bouncy Castle library. | Continue reading
I think Hahnel deserves a little attention from time to time. Camera makers, even for some pretty nice cameras, are skimping on chargers and cables as a way of saving money. A reader and friend just kindly donated a camera... Related Stories You Know Someone's a Fanboy When... Tw … | Continue reading
Evaluate and compare the functionalities of Apache POI's three Workbook classes to choose the best option for your particular use case. | Continue reading
Tutorial on how to connect to a MySQL database running on a remote server through an SSH session. | Continue reading
I'm up and running on Hugh's loaner compute—thanks again Hugh. Just so everyone is clear, TOP will be running on three cylinders until Sunday the 10th—or maybe Friday the 8th if all goes well and the new computer arrives early... Related Stories Answers Film Series (Blog Note) (B … | Continue reading
You might already be up to speed on this, but after a long tradition of removing buttons and ports from the iPhone, usually controversially—the home button and the headphone jack come to mind—Apple has added a button to the iPhone... Related Stories Emails, Lens Hoods, a Ceremoni … | Continue reading
Thanks to everyone for the avalanche of comments in response to the film question. Several people pointed out that I do not have a strong track record of following through on my “I’m gunnas,” so maybe this doesn’t even matter.... | Continue reading
Learn how to fix the "com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column" exception problem. | Continue reading
I’m temporarily without a computer today. Friend o’TOP Hugh Crawford offered to send me a stopgap computer “from the pile of obsolete but usable computers,” and I skedaddled straightaway to the Apple Store near Rochester, where I returned the computer... Related Stories Answers F … | Continue reading
The always improving Spring observability story, the new Streams Gatherers JEP and the modernlization of a legacy app. A good week :) | Continue reading
Learn several methods of upgrading from OpenAPI 2.0 to OpenAPI 3.0 in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to test with HSQLDB in isolation by tearing down or emptying the database each time a test is run. | Continue reading
Learn how to use the S3Proxy library to transparently adapt your existing Amazon S3 API usage to other cloud storage vendors. | Continue reading
A quick tutorial on the new features introduced in Jakarta Persistence 3.2. | Continue reading
Tutorial on how to create a pointcut in AspectJ that matches all methods in a package. | Continue reading
Wow, is all I can say. The answers to my innocent little question about whether it's okay to write about film photography have got my head reeling. First of all, there are 154 comments so far, a record in recent... Related Stories Film Series (Blog Note) (Blog Note) Robert Frank … | Continue reading
Learn how to effectively use the Prometheus Java client to monitor applications by instrumenting custom and JVM metrics. | Continue reading
Learn how to use MockServer to mock multiple responses for the same request. | Continue reading
Learn about Apache Iceberg, a popular open table format in today's big data landscape. | Continue reading
[UPDATE Wednesday Oct. 30th:] I need to walk back this post (the original post below) and admit that I actually AM sorry I bought the M2 Mac Mini Pro just before the M4 Mac Mini arrived. Actually, this computer purchase... Related Stories To Demo Is to Desire: Strange Mac Fact (a … | Continue reading
To forestall the inevitable questions: no, I'm not sorry I bought the M2 Mac Mini Pro before the M4 Mac Mini arrives. (The M4 Mac Mini is rumored to be radically smaller, more powerful, and to have only USB-C connector... Related Stories To Demo Is to Desire: Strange Mac Fact (an … | Continue reading
A question. I'm thinking of writing regularly about film photography this Winter, and I wonder what you think of that. Not entirely—maybe about a third or half the posts. And not forever—maybe for November, December, and January. Possibly into March... Related Stories (Blog Note) … | Continue reading
Tom Burke wrote: If the new "Leica M" book celebrates 70 years of M photography, that must mean that I've had my 50 Years of Leica M book for 20 years. Goodness me—where did they go? Amen to that. One... Related Stories Collect Every New Film Renaissance Camera There Is Open Mike … | Continue reading
Learn how to invoke a GoLang function from Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to use the Yavi library to perform type safe object validation in Java. | Continue reading
All about Java serialization this week. Good stuff coming. | Continue reading
Emails: You'd think I'd get nothing but photography-related emails. But no. Just for curiosity, I tallied up the last 300 emails I received to see where they're coming from. Nothing had been deleted. The oldest one was almost exactly four... Related Stories The Leica Q3 43 Two 'N … | Continue reading
Learn how to extract the schema from an Apache Avro file in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to validate dates, numbers, currencies, and more with built-in validators, saving you time and ensuring consistent validation across your application. | Continue reading
Learn how Logstash and Kafka work by examining a few architectural and command-line examples. | Continue reading
A quick tutorial describing how to build projects automatically in IntelliJ IDEA. | Continue reading
Learn about the similarities and difference between EntityManagerFactory and SessionFactory. | Continue reading
Before I leave the topic of Apple and computers (I'm leaving the topic of Apple and computers, so don't despair), here's a strange fact. Backdrop: the Mac Mini, introduced in 2005, was originally intended as a basic, affordable Mac that... Related Stories Open Mike: My Favorite M … | Continue reading
Learn how to convert POJOs into Avro objects. | Continue reading
Learn how to reformat Java source files using command line formatting tools. | Continue reading
A quick tutorial on finding connected IP addresses on the local network with Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to mock nested method calls using Mockito stubs. | Continue reading
Tutorial on how to configure a Spring Cloud Gateway application with Spring CORS support. | Continue reading
Learn how to filter a list of objects depending on whether any of their fields match a given string value. | Continue reading