2026-03-06T18:33:21.924Z
how could these calls be so expensive
2026-03-06T18:34:54.312Z
they don't seem that complicated from their API docs
2026-03-09T15:45:58.605Z
Windows, why is it always Windows screwing things up
more important question, why does MariaDB follow OS-specific conventions on case-sensitivity?
2026-03-10T16:55:17.638Z
let's gooo, blocked from my taxes

2026-03-12T15:27:52.631Z

lol
2026-03-12T15:29:54.009Z
the replies clarified that yes, he knows this is a major engineering effort with dates set well in advance, but he's still on 22.04 and would really like to have some new features, so maybe move it a week or two earlier pretty please?
2026-03-13T15:09:21.026Z
I had a dream last night that Bowser was an architect and his main motivation behind doing All That™ was getting to design and build new castles
He was needing out with Bowser Jr about the granite
*nerding out
2026-03-15T01:53:43.249Z
They should make a Pokemon game focused around double battles
You would get two starters, and most of the trainers you fight would be double battles, with only occasional singles
2026-03-15T01:55:35.972Z
To be clear: I don't actually especially like double battles, I just think this would be a neat gimmick lol
2026-03-15T13:25:55.884Z
I like this mental image

Giant water dragon gets almost one-shot by a lower-level squirrel who happens to be pretty good at electrifying the water
2026-03-15T18:54:28.787Z
glad I have the important files in my home directory

2026-03-15T22:29:24.121Z
Playing Pokemon Diamond, about to go into the Elite Four blind
I'd like to grind a few more levels but I want to go before night so my Synthesis is still decent
I don't know what types I'll face or even really how the format works in terms of reset time in between matches
The only other Elite Four I've played was Crystal, since Moon doesn't have one
2026-03-15T22:33:15.880Z
I should probably stock up on battle items a bit more first
2026-03-15T22:40:14.999Z
Alright, go time
2026-03-15T22:41:30.574Z
Bug? The first trainer is bug-type when my lead is Grass? come on
2026-03-15T22:48:29.980Z
What freaking types is Drapion even
2026-03-15T22:52:56.814Z
Got through Aaron, but it wasn't pretty. Unfortunate that you don't get a free restore between battles
2026-03-15T22:54:36.908Z
Ground should be a better type match for me, even though Razor Leaf is my only offense grass move
Hell yeah take an Earthquake to that Dig
2026-03-15T23:08:50.849Z
Hippowdon was a problem. I'm not high enough level to take care of it quickly and I don't have a way to deal with Curse. Got bad crit luck too. I eventually got rid of it but it cost nearly my whole party. Should definitely go in with like 20 revives and max heals next time, assuming I don't make it
2026-03-15T23:10:54.149Z
I also just need one more level for Giga Drain, which would have helped in that fight
Well I guessed from this next guy's hair that he's Fire lol
So I do have the counter ready which is nice
Oh, bad tactical mistake on my part
2026-03-15T23:15:45.994Z
Shoot this Infernape has a counter for everything I have
2026-03-15T23:19:28.469Z
Yeah I lost hard to that
Too bad, would have liked to know what the fourth trainer is
2026-03-15T23:21:41.582Z
Could use a few PP Ups too
2026-03-16T03:52:58.299Z
Note to self: I need to catch Mesprit sometime
I do have a decent Pokemon with Block in the computer
2026-03-17T18:51:09.472Z
It's JDK 26 release day! Time to recap the major changes:
* The headlining feature has to be HTTP/3 support for the HTTP client API. This is an opt-in feature, existing applications using the HTTP client API will not automatically use HTTP/3. The underlying QUIC client is not accessible.
* A very interesting change is to G1 synchronization. G1 is the default garbage collector, so this has wide-reaching impacts. The tradeoff here is around 0.2% extra memory usage for about 5% performance improvement, depending on workload. More info: https://openjdk.org/jeps/522
* The Applet API has been completely removed, after the last remnants of marginally useful functionality were removed in Java 24.
* Deep reflection now throws a warning by default. Deep reflection is the extremely cursed practice of taking a class's `final` fields (which mark the field as unable to be changed) and making them not final. The presence of deep reflection completely removes the ability of the JVM to optimize around final fields being immutable. However, there's actually a fair amount of stuff which uses this. In an upcoming version, this ability will be removed altogether (with a replacement for certain use cases relating to deserialization). This has a lot going on, if you're interested: https://openjdk.org/jeps/500
* The AOT cache, recently implemented to improve application warm-up times, is now GC-agnostic
In previews and incubators:
* Stable values have been renamed *lazy constants*, which is a much better name. They also have significant changes, which I think take it in the right direction. I'm still not convinced this is the correct approach, but it's better than it was last time around. https://openjdk.org/jeps/526
* Somewhat surprisingly, "Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch" actually has changes this time around. Not major changes, but some definitional tweaks that supposedly help catch bad code.
* The new PEM API has some changes and improvements: https://openjdk.org/jeps/524
* Structured Concurrency, which has been hanging around since JDK 19, has some tweaks. It looks cool, but I'm holding off on seriously looking into it until it actually lands because it's reasonably complex. https://openjdk.org/jeps/525
* And that brings us to the great new Java tradition, the 11th incubator of the vector API! Unfortunately, its dependencies didn't see significant advancement in this release.
If you're looking ahead to Java 27, the only feature targeted so far is some new key exchange algorithms for TLS 1.3
2026-03-17T18:53:33.872Z
And if you're asking "should I upgrade", the answer this time is no! Unless you're using G1 and are doing a lot of modifications to fields that point to objects, and also are in a position where a ~5% performance improvement is significant.
Or, potentially, are doing a lot of network traffic that could benefit from HTTP/3
2026-03-17T20:17:40.150Z
why is Handshake hiring for Godot. what are they doing

2026-03-19T02:52:25.280Z
Decided to go on a little sidequest to get a party of pickup Pachirisus
Got more Run Aways but it wasn't too bad