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Re:What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers on Monday October 06, 2025 @02:59PM (#45494959)
All of this is just a clone of features of java. They even copied the name from java: "escape analysis". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_analysis
Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git on Monday November 06, 2023 @03:23PM (#38168427)
bzr is superior to git in most ways. The only problem is that it is not used by many people today.
Re:2000-Watt Society on Monday September 19, 2022 @04:16PM (#32903323)
I live in Sweden. I have a large house. It consumes 14 MWh/year. I have not sacrificed anything. I use a heat pump (using energy from the ground).
Re:ThorCon: Cheap, reliable, CO2-free electric power on Sunday April 10, 2022 @03:04PM (#30980527)
The article quotes a very old capacity-factor for wind-energy (30%). Today it is 60-64%. https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind... Also read this report regarding new types of nuclear power (a summary is that these new versions is probably a waste of money): https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/ucs-rpt-A...
Re:Webtops: A Linux Desktop Environment in the Browser on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:32AM (#27084196)
It uses RDP (much faster than VNC).
Re:Java for Everything (2014) on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:06PM (#26948135)
You did not give me a link to something saying that C# is faster (it is still not). Choosing C# only is only good if vendor lockdown is something you like (or benefit from). I have been involved in a project where C#-developers where involved (MS lockdown). The funders asked me if i could take care of the project (rewrite it in java). C# is complete garbage.
Re:Java for Everything (2014) on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:54AM (#26943916)
I have also written some shellscripts in java (i did not smoke anything). If startuptime would be an issue (normally it is not) i would just use graal-vm to compile it. Just do this: "native-image script"
Re:Java for Everything (2014) on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:45AM (#26943796)
Java is faster in almost any way (compared to C#). Do you have benchmarks showing i am wrong ? It also has multiple AOT compilers and a much larger eco-system.
Re:Java for Everything (2014) on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:40AM (#26943732)
There is now J2CL which translates java into javascript (superfast). gmail and google sheets is written in GWT.
Re:Volumio – The Audiophile Music Player on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:30PM (#26894328)
How do you connect a big harddrive with all your music (in flac) to phone ? A phone would require some kind of service (not free) for streaming the songs. I prefer to have everything on my harddrive (i do not like to lose audio when the network is down).
Re:Volumio – The Audiophile Music Player on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:27PM (#26894294)
If you alter the volume, you alter the bits (which means not bitperfect playback). It reduces the available bits.
Solar and wind-power can compete very efficiently in a free market. They actually outperform all other forms of energy-production (it is the cheapest way to produce energy). Also every year they get much cheaper. I would recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM2RxWtF4Ds
Re:More weakness seen as dollar posts worst year since 2017 on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:19AM (#25632363)
M0 is not so important. It has increased M3 by around 20% (similar to the US dollar).
Re:More weakness seen as dollar posts worst year since 2017 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:37PM (#25624438)
That is no surprise: "About 20 per cent of all US dollars were created this year." Source: https://www.cityam.com/almost-a-fifth-of-all-us-dollars-were...
Yes there is (supporting AMQP 0.9.1) See here: https://joram.ow2.io/index.html