2025-04-05T06:24:19.902Z
oh interesting KDF should be finalized in 25! that's a pretty quick turnaround, but the crypto stuff tends to go through without much pushback. https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8353275
2025-04-05T06:25:53.808Z
Java crypto is an interesting space because lots of people don't use Java's APIs at all and go with Bouncy Castle instead
I should maybe look more into it sometime
2025-04-08T02:48:48.143Z
TIL that Mojang has officially acknowledged quasi-connectivity under that name since at least 2017 https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/you-made-better-together-better-ever

2025-04-14T00:01:49.905Z
Early in the week but nice state rankings so far

Last week I had a very nice result on track 4

2025-04-14T13:33:46.191Z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8k9ZCrsphc mentioning this talk for two reasons
1) "I wanna warn you in advance this talk is mostly about Java" at a Java conference
2) He pronounces JSON like Jason
2025-04-16T00:28:27.240Z
gotta love a "Join our Discord!" ad that doesn't link to the Discord
very helpful
2025-04-16T17:57:18.708Z
thanks for the correction

2025-04-18T04:46:35.292Z
200 medals on TMNF!

2025-04-21T19:02:15.540Z
The neat part about running unoptimized code 1000000 times is that you have no idea how lnog it will take
will it be done in five minutes? ten? an hour? three hours? who knows!
2025-04-24T18:36:21.189Z
I realized I've never complained about exporting a PDF in Word before
so time to do that
the situation is much worse when you have Acrobat installed, so that's what I'm showing
Alright, here's the sidebar for the "File" menu in word

There's a few possible options you might choose here
"Save" just saves the document and closes the sidebar, it's no more than a ctrl+s
2025-04-24T18:39:30.128Z
"Save As" presents you with these options

Fortunately, there's just one "PDF" option here. Selecting it provides you with a confusing accessibility window, but whatever

Of course, you could skip having to find PDF in the middle of the dropdown by just selecting "Save as Adobe PDF", right?

yeah this is where the Acrobat integration gets annoying
anywhere where it says "Adobe PDF", that's an Acrobat thing that you need Acrobat Pro for
whereas just "PDF" is native Word
So the same popup appears for "Share as Adobe PDF"
You could also Export, from which you can again select Adobe PDF or PDF

And if you do pick PDF/XPS, it's the same accessibility dialogue box

Of course, there's also the "Change File Type" export option

There's no PDF option built in there, but you could select "Save as Another File Type", and then click "Save As", and then select PDF from the dropdown

2025-04-24T18:46:53.700Z
Oh shoot I forgot about Share
2025-04-24T18:47:58.773Z
Bizarrely, despite a separate "Share as Adobe PDF" option existing, this also has a special PDF share option, which is actually Adobe PDF, violating the one plausible rule we had to understand the situation

So that leaves us with... 8 different ways to make a PDF in Word, if I counted correctly?
I'm sure there's more cursed ones as well (macros?), but those are all through the same "File" menu