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New comment by bzzzt in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

bzzzt — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:25:14 +0000

And it's not even an Oracle product. If you want that from them you need WebLogic.

To be fair, recent versions of JBoss/Wildfly removed a lot of the bloat and boot within seconds. Startup time is mostly due to application frameworks nowadays.

New comment by bzzzt in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

bzzzt — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:17:46 +0000

There's no Switch 2 version, it's supported through Switch 1 compatibility.

The Switch port has gyro aiming though.

New comment by bzzzt in "ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound"

bzzzt — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:01:47 +0000

Why not just load an emulator then?

New comment by bzzzt in "ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound"

bzzzt — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:09:28 +0000

It's a Spectrum-like keyboard on an emulator running on a Raspberry Pi like CPU. Nothing like the original imo.

New comment by bzzzt in "The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet"

bzzzt — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:09:04 +0000

Their exposure could be net positive. If other companies fail they will still be around to pick up their customers.

New comment by bzzzt in "ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine"

bzzzt — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:03:41 +0000

The EU battery replacement laws do not apply to waterproof devices.

New comment by bzzzt in "The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet"

bzzzt — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:27:54 +0000

> well if bubble pops, everyone will die EXCEPT google

Also, possible Apple since they haven't gone into deep debt to finance 'AI buildout'.

New comment by bzzzt in "Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)"

bzzzt — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:32:17 +0000

Depends on the car. Mine uses a different computer for that. If the infotainment system goes down it doesn't affect the gauge cluster screen.

New comment by bzzzt in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

bzzzt — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:30:19 +0000

Agree about the Silicon and Synapse name, they never should have changed it into Blizzard ;)

New comment by bzzzt in "Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)"

bzzzt — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:02:49 +0000

It’s obsolete anyway. If the board is analysing video for safety purposes it’s a core part of the car.

New comment by bzzzt in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

bzzzt — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:01:34 +0000

It's a moat. If you're afraid of losing market share you want your competitors to be busy finding out ways of passing these kind of rules you already figured out how to implement. That's why quality doesn't matter, only compliance does.

New comment by bzzzt in "Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing metal poisoning"

bzzzt — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:37:42 +0000

If you mean the 'screw in jawbone' style implants, those are generally made of titanium.

New comment by bzzzt in "Do you hate XML? (2010)"

bzzzt — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:23:30 +0000

Sure. Standards like EDIFACT make XML seem like a big improvement.

New comment by bzzzt in "Software, from First Principles"

bzzzt — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:19:47 +0000

Absolutely recommended! For more up to date content, a second edition was published in 2022.

New comment by bzzzt in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

bzzzt — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:12:27 +0000

It's the biggest model in the Yamaha monitor series and if you care about bass that much you probably also want a subwoofer ;)

New comment by bzzzt in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

bzzzt — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:05:17 +0000

Oh, I care about audio quality a lot more than most people, but not into 'magic cable' territory.

There's no reason you can't gather statistics about a representative part of the population. It doesn't make sense to make the entire world pay for better audio because some guy somewhere might be a bit more sensitive and he thinks it ruins everything.

I don't know if such a person exists, but especially in the 'magic' audio territory there's a big amount of bullsh*t going on. There's a reason the James Randi price was never claimed.

There's a huge difference between digital 'distortions' caused by sampling at CD quality and things like tape flutter which most people can actually hear. Even then, some people like the imperfections like vinyl or tape artifacts. Some people even prefer MP3 compressed music.

New comment by bzzzt in "Vibe Coded X11 Server Written in Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support"

bzzzt — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:59:26 +0000

Yeah, considering the amount of sh*tposting about Wayland lacking features why don't they actually vibecode those?

New comment by bzzzt in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

bzzzt — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:49:53 +0000

>Generally all of these "debates" come down to people who think math > circuitry. All real designs are imperfect trade-offs. They all have issues, and arguing as if converters are perfect when they never are, and the imperfections can be benched objectively, is... not very scientific.

There is one purely objective benchmark: a true blind test. You can believe if something is different or not, but if nobody's capably of hearing the difference, does it matter?

New comment by bzzzt in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

bzzzt — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:45:22 +0000

Those things have huge drivers and are probably too big for a lot of rooms. Unless you (and your neighbors) absolutely want to have that thumping sound and you go out of your way to kill unwanted bass reflection you're probably better off with the HS5 or something similar.

New comment by bzzzt in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

bzzzt — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:53:37 +0000

Those laptops don't need to go to any landfill. They are much too precious to not recycle the metals and other materials and will be taken care of if you return them to the manufacturer. (by law, at least in the EU)