Then fork it and do that.
These projects are structured as hobbyist projects and get whatever time the maintainer can spare. I have projects like that, they’re useful, but I’m not gonna prioritize them over… anything else, come to think of it.
The fact so many people treat a hobbyist project with one maintainer as critical infrastructure is insane, but that’s on them. Everybody likes free software, nobody likes to help or pay the maintainer.
Clearly it wasn’t maintained.
Lol. It’s an IP library. IP classifications haven’t changed. What could he possibly update?
He’s not suggesting to replace timestamps (nor database sequences). They’re unique identifiers, and they happen to include a timestamp.
If you were 100% specific you would be effectively writing the code yourself. But you don’t want that, so you’re not 100% specific, so it makes up the difference. The result will include an unspecified percentage of code that does not fit what you wanted.
It’s like code Yahtzee, you keep re-rolling this dice and that dice but never quite manage to get the exact combination you need.
There’s an old saying about computers, they don’t do what you want them to do, they do what you tell them to do. They can’t do what you don’t tell them to do.
Oh, God, he’s trying to use pointers again. He can never get them right. And they say I’m supposed to chase my tail…
SO gives you very specific, small examples. GenAI will happily generate entire projects, test suites etc. It’s much easier to get caught into the fantasy that the latter creates.
You can download past versions of OpenJDK going back to 7 from the link I gave above.
On Google I get the link to the download page as 3rd result, and on DuckDuckGo is the first result.
There might also be some confusion related to the fact openjdk.org only called its builds “openjdk” for version 8 and for versions 11+. Versions 7, 9 and 10 were just called “JDK” so technically there’s no such thing as “openjdk 10”.
60M total but divided among 40 counties makes 1.5M variations per county and the capital city (which is its own county, like Berlin) went over that.
I looked it up and Bucharest actually has only a 1.7M population so… I think it’s understandable that nobody expected an almost 1:1 person-to-car ratio. Exactly why and how they reached that crazy ratio I have no idea. 😆
Told you it’s a crazy rabbit hole.
Yeah this is pretty much non-news at this point. The last unencumbered versions of JDK and JRE from Oracle went out in 2019, that’s 5 years ago, and they’re still allowing a grace period of another 6 months.
I mean don’t get me wrong, Oracle sucks and the way they go about licensing is shit, but at this point come on. If a company hasn’t bothered to get rid of Oracle’s version of Java for the last 6 years maybe they want to get shafted? I don’t kink-shame.
What do you mean? It’s very easy to find the download page for OpenJDK, and Adoptium’s Temurin seems to be equally easy to find.
Speaking of car plates, the Wikipedia pages for “Vehicle license plates of [insert country here]” are a rabbit hole.
I was just reading the page for Romania the other day, speaking of uniqueness, and they had this issue apparently where the combinations overall were enough for the whole country but not enough for their capital city, so they had to hack an extra digit into the plates for the capital.
These days I follow a hard heuristic: Always use synthetic keys for database tables.
And the way to follow this rule is fairly simple, but it has a few twists.
For internal use, the best and most common key (in a relational database) is an auto-generated incremental sequence. But it it ok to use it externally? – across databases, across types of data storage, across APIs / services etc.
It’s tempting to refer to the sequence number in API calls, after all they are going to that particular database and are only going to be used with it, right? Well not necessarily; the database and the code powering the API are different systems, who says there won’t be other apps accessing the database for example.
The current OpSec school of thought is that sequence keys are an internal database mechanism and sequence numbers should only be used for internal consistency, never used as external references (even for the “local” API).
Sequence keys also don’t offer any way to deal with creating duplicate data entries. If you’ve been around for a while you’ve seen this, the client sends the same “create” request twice for whatever reason (UI lets user multiple-click a button, client assumes timeout when in fact it had gone through etc.) Some programmers attempt to run heuristics on the data and ignore successive create attempts that look “too similar” but it can backfire in many ways.
An UUID is pretty much universally supported nowadays, its designed to be unique across a vast amount of systems, doesn’t give anything away about your internal mechanisms, and if you ask the client to generate the UUID for create requests you can neatly solve the duplicate issue.
Do keep in mind that this doesn’t solve the problem of bijection across many years and many systems and many databases. An entity may still acquire multiple UUID’s, even if they’re each individually perfectly fine.
There can also be circumstances where you have to offer people a natural-looking key for general consumption. You can’t put UUID’s on car plates for example.
That was a solved problem 20 years ago lol. We made working systems for this in our lab at Uni, it was one of our course group projects. It used combinations of sensors and microcontrollers.
It’s not really the kind of problem that requires AI. You can do it with AI and image recognition or live traffic data but that’s more fitting for complex tasks like adjusting the entire grid live based on traffic conditions. It’s massively overkill for dead time switches.
Even for grid optimization you shouldn’t jump into AI head first. It’s much better long term to analyze the underlying causes of grid congestion and come up with holistic solutions that address those problems, which often translate into low-tech or zero-tech solutions. I’ve seen intersections massively improved by a couple of signs, some markings and a handful of plastic poles.
Throwing AI at problems is sort of a “spray and pray” approach that often goes about as badly as you can expect.
Oh boy I hate the branding. I’ve gotten some really nice swag this way but I can’t use them because they’re so obnoxiously branded. I’m not going to the beach for example with a Dickhead Company stamped large on the beach towel, or going out of the house with it on the umbrella. Pens, battery are ok.
How did they know how to break things down into tasks? How did they know if a task would fit in a sprint? 😄
Well it has labeled breaks but that’s the closest it gets to it.
The ToS only defines the license to distribute and display. It does not define how users and consumers of that distribution may or may not use the content. So from this instance alone, there could be an argument of “the comment defines how it may be used”.
No, there can’t. If the ToS doesn’t give you any permissions it means you have none.
When you post something you give the site a copy of content, under the license in the ToS. From that moment onward you lose all rights to that copy and cannot re-license or do anything with it anymore, period. It’s not your piece of content anymore, it’s the site’s.
Your original piece of content is still yours and you hold copyright. That’s the piece that you were holding on your device, in your RAM or on your disk, before you posted it. If you held onto a copy of it you have full rights to it. If you lost it after you posted it, too bad.
The site cannot re-license their copy under different terms because it doesn’t hold copyright, it only holds a license (albeit under very wide terms).
Other users are not included in the license. They can’t do anything with the content except what’s allowed under personal use.
I should hope each instance has a provision for posters to grant it an irrevocable, perpetual license to what they post. All instances should. Federation should also have clear terms.
This whole debacle is a festival of stupidity:
ip.isPrivate(), which you can write yourself in 5 minutes.At this point the maintainer is fucked no matter what they do, so archiving the project and telling everybody to fuck off right back was really the only sane thing to do.