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The reason that I rewrote all the software I work on in Rust. — The manager scheduled an unexpected meeting for the entire team: It would be 20 minutes long on a Friday, right before a huge company announcement was scheduled. It’s safe to say that no one was amused at this notification due to ongoing economic events. People speak of The Arctic and…

“Man page” is a short term for “manual page.” It’s a well known form of software documentation usually found on UNIX operating systems. Linux users frequently use the “man” command to learn about different tools, but few actually know where it came from. The Beginning While it’s usual to think of man…

A new study claims to have found the missing dark energy — Could cosmologists finally have solved the question of dark energy? For years they have been troubled by measurements showing the cosmos expanding at an ever faster rate; an expansion that has no explanation in the known laws of physics. To resolve it cosmologists have proposed all sorts of exotic ideas…

With the 20 release, Oracle continues it’s massive Ruy López sequence destined to place Java as the go-to language of the AI-age. Oracle released Java 20 several days ago. Let’s look what are the most aspects of this release. Java 19 Rehearsal Java 20 comes after a game changing Java 19 release made in September. My article about Java 19 got a whooping number of 1100 claps. It got also some interesting comments, I like…

I’m sad the RC is out already. I needed more of such amazing features. — All the unattributed images below are by the author. #1. Voice Isolation arrives to cellular calls 📞 Voice Isolation, if turned on, prioritises your voice in a call, filtering out the surrounding ambient noise — so the other person would hear you clearer. Until now, this was offered only for FaceTime and other internet-based calls (like WhatsApp, Zoom…