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The whole thing was (and is) highly controversial; Stargate claimed a bit of successes as well as many failures.

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We do have some very old and likely lost all sources "client apps" that are a single JAR and date from around 2003-2004, written in Swing. They still work. Of course when they stop working t…

Obviously nobody is pointing fingers at this stage, though anyone reading the news might see a patterns of things evolving....

If you want to create books, Asciidoctor (for PDF/ebook) + Antora (to publish them on the web), are the way to go. Not related, just a happy user who used Asciidoc for the last 20 years to mainta…

"A withdrawal of the threshold on the DST turnover tax would bring all Italian and non-resident providers of digital services into the tax net for the first time. This would include non-digital s…

About (1), that's what Rhine did his whole life. Of course, it's all "debunked" - at the end you either trust what he did or think he was a fraud. About (2), I don't think it …

Yes - the fact is that with the same attitude it would be very hard to have *any* kind of science, because if the default answer is "it must be wrong because it's impossible. so did you cont…

I find parapsychology a very interesting field: the kind of scrutiny that is applied to its experiments is so much higher than with anything else in the social sciences - and usually the bar gets high…

Yes the lack of discoverability, plus the unfamiliar syntax of Groovy, plus names changing between versions, I started with Gradle thinking it would be easier but in the end I'd love to go back t…

Yes, but now it's for everybody.

Yes - "if you have Italians connecting to your website and look at ads, even if you make $0.01 total, you have to register and pay 3% of that, or else". This is already in effect for big cor…

Maybe it's not perfect, but it's definitely usable. I would not call it a stumbling block.

I am with you on this - it's not impossible, but is it maintainable? what if I break a leg? and when something blocks and you don't know why, who can debug it? that's why we went for a …

Enough to keep wondering if this is the case <! or <<! and if whether I'd be better off with a dead-stupid, surprise-free thread pool.

I second the OP - I'm not sure where the big prize is. I have a feeling that whomever wrote the article thinks there is a 10x (or 100x) improvement to be made, but I was not able to see it. I fin…

I'm with you for "subjective". Though "strings are UTF8 binaries" ain't that bad. Or first-class, MD documentation. Or the pipe operator. Or a number of other niceties. :…

I wonder what the price tag is, and how expensive is change.

Elixir. It has the very same concepts (actually it IS a dialect of Erlang - it's just a different front-end for the same compiler), but with a saner syntax. After a while you do Elixir, you'…

Weird. I thought that "similar" meant "different, but kind of".

Had a similar problem in Elixir - spawn a pool of HTTP requests and notify immediately of the first one that completes with a status of "ok". Task.Supervisor.async_stream( My.Ta…

Maybe they were expecting Mastodon to become mainstream.