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John Sterling @mejkarsense.se · 1d

Thanks for 50k downloads of Finicky! github.com/johnste/fini...

Some download stats showing 50,040 downloads total for Finicky

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Vadim Hansen @vadimhansen.bsky.social · 3d

L'automatisation, ce n'est pas remplacer ton cerveau.

C'est virer les tâches qui te vident.

Pour garder l'énergie là où tu comptes.

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 4d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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joschi @joschi.xyz · 3d

I'm surprised that there wasn't more noise around the license change of #Liquibase from Apache License 2.0 to Functional Source License (FSL) in Liquibase 5.0.0.
github.com/liquibase/li...

Is just nobody using it anymore? 😅

#Java #OSS #licensing

Release Liquibase v5.0.0 · liquibase/liquibase

Liquibase Community 5.0 is a major release See the Liquibase Community 5.0 Release Notes for the complete set of release information. ⚠️ MAJOR CHANGES IN COMMUNITY AND COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTIONS Liqu...

github.com

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 5d

Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) release now starting!

github.com/FasterXML/ja...

#java #json #xml #csv #cbor #csv

Jackson Release 3.0

Main Portal page for the Jackson project. Contribute to FasterXML/jackson development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev.bsky.social · 5d

Using narrowband filters (Baader Solar Continuum 7.5nm in this case) does improve Moon contrast quite a bit, even though it pushes the exposure times way up. A doublet with heavy chromatic aberration gets fairly monochromatic light :P [Downsampled 4x here for preview:]

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Tristan K. @tristankamin.bsky.social · 6d

www.liberation.fr/sciences/ce-...
J'hallucine

« Révélé par le Monde, cet incident grave... »

Révélé par le Monde !?!?!

Bon, ça vous dit qu'on abandonne toutes les lois sur la transparence du nucléaire ? 'toute façon, les Journalistes sont l'alpha et l'oméga de l'information, le reste est futile.

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Les Voix du Nucléaire @voixdunucleaire.org · 8d

Ce soir à 12:00 le réacteur belge Tihange 1 sera mis à l’arrêt. Celui de Doel 2 suivra le 1er décembre. En l’espace de 5 ans la Belgique a donc perdu 3.8GW de capacité bas-carbone, malgré une population à 73% favorable à l’utilisation du nucléaire pour la production d’électricité.

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Per Minborg @pminborg.bsky.social · 7d

You can't have both laziness and immutability at the same time in #java ... until Lazy Constant arrives ...

JEP 526: Lazy Constants (Second Preview) is now a Candidate for JDK 26!

Read all about it here: openjdk.org/jeps/526

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JEP Tracker @jeptracker.bsky.social · 7d

🏗️ JEP 522 integrated to JDK 26
Title: G1 GC: Improve Throughput by Reducing Synchronization
Type: feature
Component: hotspot / gc
Release: 26
See openjdk.org/jeps/522

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JUnit Team 💙💛 @junit.org · 8d

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released!

✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline
🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations
🛫 Integrated JFR support
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛑 Support for cancelling test execution
⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher
🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs

docs.junit.org/6.0.0/releas...

JUnit Release Notes

docs.junit.org

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 8d

Hehe!

That said, I wish that Swing was easier in many more cases. Sometimes it’s just way to hard to achieve something that would be a breeze in other UI systems.

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 8d

It’s never too late, this submitted JEP (openjdk.org/jeps/8368874) just landed, it’s about adding a date picker in #Swing (preview). Using the `java.time.*` types.

JEP draft: JEP: Add a JDatePicker UI Component to the Swing UI Toolkit (Preview)

openjdk.org

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Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social · 12d

Enjoy my new, artisanal blog post about #JSpecify and #NullAway, a fresh take on null safety in the #Java world. Be warned, may contains #Lombok. Happy weekend you all.

info.michael-simons.eu/2025/09/26/j...

JSpecify and NullAway: A fresh take on nullsafety in the Java world

Introduction Sir Antony Hoare[1] introduced the concept of Null-references or Null pointer[2] back in 1965 with the release of ALGOL W. In 2009 he spoke about it as his “Billion Dollar Mistake”[3]. De...

info.michael-simons.eu

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Tagir Valeev @tagir-valeev.bsky.social · 11d

TIL: In #Java, List.subList() and List.reversed() are implemented smartly. You may call these methods as many times as you want and in any order, but you don't get a long chain of references which leads to StackOverflowError. The longest chain of views is two: reversed -> subList -> original list.

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 11d

But in the JDK, and with possible JVM support.

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 12d

Lazy constant semantics (preview) rather than StableValue

static final List ORDERS
= List.ofLazy(POOL_SIZE, _ -> new OrderController());

openjdk.org/jeps/526

JEP 526: Lazy Constants (Second Preview)

openjdk.org

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 12d

Just read an estimation of when JDK’s Stable Values could be final, JDK 28 **at the earliest**.

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 12d

Nice engineering blog post on some query filtering at scale. There are some lessons in there.

They used a "bloofi " multidimensional bloom filters.
axiom.co/blog/buildin...
lemire.me/en/publicati...

Haydex: From Zero to 178,600,000,000 rows a second in 30 days

This is the story of how we turned a failed filter prototype into a production system running at 178.6B rows/sec in 30 days.

axiom.co

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 12d

This number is irrelevant of the classloader as it can change in a thread. So basically it tells you how many classes were loaded by that thread.

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.bsky.social · 12d

Y'a comme un pattern qui se dégage 🙃

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 13d

Actually passing `-e` to `jstack` works as well.

github.com/openjdk/jdk/...

8200720: Print additional information in thread dump (times, allocate… · openjdk/jdk@2789672

…d bytes etc.) Reviewed-by: dholmes, clanger, cjplummer, sspitsyn

github.com

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 13d

Cet été j’ai découvert Latex avec un des dernières versions de @bearnotesapp.bsky.social, ça tombait bien je voulais redécouvrir le comment du pourquoi de l’identité d’Euler. Alors je comprends “l’excitation” pour Word! 😄

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Charles Oliver Nutter @headius.bsky.social · 13d

OMG it makes a huge difference. Without even pinning to tier 1 ("dev" mode) we have a new record base startup of 361ms on my M4 MBA. I'm playing with some other tweaks and a longer training run now.

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 13d

If your JDK is run with `-XX:+PrintExtendedThreadInfo` the thread header will also have

- allocated=... : The number of bytes allocated by this thread.

- defined_classes=... : The number of classes defined by this thread

This is also achievable without that flag using `jcmd {pid} Thread.print -e`

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