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Maven and later gradle, groovy and spring boot really made it more fun to use.

There is no better example of “to each their own.”

I started programming Java professionally when it was still called “Oak.” I was working at a University doing distance learning stuff and applets were incredible. They were also the thin end of the wedge, although I didn’t know it at the time.

I watched over the years as a nice, concise, core library of a dozen packages swelled like a bloated corpse. The last core library book I contributed to was larger than War & Peace, a veritable tome just to describe the standard library.

And then tooling like Maven and Gradle came along, and frameworks like Spring Boot became unavoidable, and I found more of my time was spent not programming but trying to detangle some horrible maven build config. In XML. That’s about the time I jumped ship.

My philosophy is: tooling is fine, but if it takes over the project so that it’s impossible to build the project without it it’s not tooling anymore, it’s a framework - a platform - that you’re locked into. You get to spend your time debugging issues with the framework, over which you have no real control, where your best hope is work-arounds and crossing your fingers that upstream fixes their shit before your work-around becomes permanently engraved into the build.

It’s funny to me that what I saw as bloated distraction, a hateful corruption of simplicity onto layers of obfuscation that themselves became platforms needing maintenance and debugging, would have been a pleasant and even fun addition to the ecosystem.

It didn’t have uBlock origin installed by default on Android. But, regardless, it seems fine so far!

I just started using it myself. I can’t see a difference between it and Firefox, which is a good thing because it means sites aren’t breaking. But it also makes me wonder just how much more private it is.

I’ve been trained by experience that privacy is strongly correlated to web sites not working properly.

Well, GL iNet 's router software is based on OpenWRT, so all of their’s. The UI of nicer, so I just leave their version on there; go through the “advanced settings” menu item to get the LuCI interface.

Hmm. We don’t see much Vulcan romance in any earlier series, except for the gratuitous “sauna scene” with T’Pol in Enterprise. It’s not just Spock.

That’s not Spock.

I don’t understand, and never will, the compulsion to hyper-sexualize the one character who was not perpetually horny.

So many countries are complicit, though. At least your government isn’t actually sending Israel weapons to murder Palestinian children with.

Oh, that confused me so much! I restarted the episode 4 times before I realized it was a cross-over! I thought I was getting the wrobg show!

It was fantastic. One of my favorite ST episodes, and so well done.

You mean R&S? Yeah. There were maybe 4 funny ones, and the rest were crap. Space Madness, however, is IMHO one of the greatest pieces of comedy ever produced. Maybe it was just one-hit-wonder syndrome.

I have. It’s not bad, despite my several grievances with it. Mainly the Gorn redesign as cheap knock-offs of Xenomorphs, that Kirk could never have hand-to-handed. And I really, really dislike the whole Spock/nurse Chapel story line. T’Pring was grossly mistreated, and it makes Spock’s surprise at her behavior in Amok Time completely out of character: he knew what he did. I’m also not fond of jumping directly to musical episodes in so early; shows usually only do that when they start running out of other ideas. I had to fast-forward through most of that one. I was really unhappy about killing off… who they killed off. I would have preferred almost any other character be sacrificed if they really felt it necessary.

But all that said, there is a lot of good, and I’ll keep watching it. I think my biggest gripe is that they picked SNW to continue, over Lower Decks‽ That was bogus; LD was a far better show.

As an American, I’ve never been. When I lived in Bavaria, though, it was an extremely popular vacation destination. I remember being rather shocked because it just never occurred to me that it had beaches and warmth, and wasn’t really that far from Munich; I just had never in my life in the US met anyone before who’d gone there, that I knew about.

Episode IV. That’s my hill.

NeuTrek. TNG squeeks by, but any Trek with a dysfunctional, corrupt Federation with a Black Ops team is out.

The West Wing, season 4. After Sorkin left it went to shit.

Ren & Stimpy was hit or miss, but really after the first season it fell off a cliff pretty fast.

Nobody’s ever done an adaptation of Asimov’s The Foundation Trilogy, which is too bad.

TLoTR had 3 movies; everything after has been just a shitty job of milking the success of the first 3. Which is too bad, because Cumberbuzzle was brilliant as Smaug.

They don’t mention enshittification - I think Doctorow popularized the term later - but this is a perfect example of a process that contributes to the phenomenon.

I had never thought about it in these terms, but they repeatedly mentioned curation, and it’s so clearly a fundamental topic in today’s online world.

This was an incredible video, thanks for sharing. It gave me a new perspective to consider.

We got a glimpse of what a true exodus could look like, and I’m with you. As much as I’d love to see Reddit collapse from its own shiftiness, for Lemmy’s sake I’d rather see a trickle who have a chance to learn manners and leave their vitriol behind.

Not saying Lemmy’s perfect. I’m not saying I’m perfect: I have bad days and make asshole responses, too. But they get swallowed, or I get a reasonable response and apologize. In the main, the real, consistent excuses for human beings who resist the opportunity to become better people tend to join instances like Hexbear, and can be blocked en mass.

Huh. I don’t really hear any units of length anymore, now that I think about it. Even the doctor measures my height in inches, not feet+inches.

I honestly don’t know. I don’t hear “meters” used at all, but the first thing that comes to mind about “yards” is the 2000 movie The Whole Nine Yards.

US football still uses yards, doesn’t it? I don’t watch football either. But I just checked a random football stats website, and it still uses yards to measure pro football stats, so… yes, I guess. A lot of Americans still uses “yards.”

Meter was easiest for me because it’s essentially a yard (when eyeballing).

Liters are easy because the soft drink industry picked up on it decades ago as a way to get people to drink more soda. You’d buy cans and 6-packs, but nobody bought a gallon of soda. But they would, it turns out, buy a liter of soda, and as we got more obese as a nation, 2 liters. Liters of consumer drinks are really common, and so easy to visualize.

Rockets are: put a bunch of flammables in a giant tube and light it on fire. That’s my understanding. Well, Ok. I know there are nozzles on gimbals, but… here’s a joke that represents what I’m talking about:

A brain surgeon goes to a party, and the host is introducing him to people.
Host: “John, this is Jack. He’s a software engineer.”
John: “Oh, that’s nice, but it isn’t brain surgery.”
Host: “This is Mary; she worked in industrial inorganic chemistry.”
John: “Oh that’s nice, but it isn’t brain surgery.”
Host (annoyed): “Maude, this is John. He’s a brain surgeon.”
Maude: “Oh, that’s nice, but it isn’t rocket science.”

I think the big picture is deceptively simple. The practice of getting into orbit is far, far more complicated.

As for airplanes, yeah. I understand them well enough; I think with the right equipment and practice I could build something that flies. It’s just, sometimes seeing a behemoth in the air it’s just a bit astonishing, and unintuitive.

See‽ It’s a glitch in the matrix. They added the feature, but failed to work it out in advance and coded themselves into a corner.

I think what happened is that they spent all the budget up front, really nailing stuff like Physics and Evolution, and then came to a crunch and Management said, “just throw something in there! We’ll polish it later,” only it’s so self contradicting, they can’t.

The idea is that blkdiscard will tell the SSD’s own controller to zero out everything

Just to be clear, blkdiscard alone does not zero out anything; it just marks blocks as empty. --secure tells compatible drives to additionally wipe the blocks; -z actually zeros out the contents in the blocks like dd does. The difference is that - without the secure or z options - the data is still in the cells.

always encrypt all of your storage

Yes! Although, I don’t think hindsight is helpful for OP.