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maybe it would be a little better to use ints rather than longs, as Java lists can't be bigger than the int max value anyways. Saves you a cache line or two.

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The code:

  public int parseOrDefault(String value, int defaultValue) {
      if (value == null || value.isBlank()) return defaultValue;
      for (int i = 0; i < value.length(); i++) {
          char c = value.charAt(i);
          if (i == 0 && c == '-') continue;
          if (!Character.isDigit(c)) return defaultValue;
      }
      return Integer.parseInt(value);
  }

Is probably worse than Integer.parseInt alone, since it can still throw NumberFormatExceptions for values that overflow (which is no longer handled!). Would maybe fix that. Unfortunately this is a major flaw in the Java standard library; parsing numbers shouldn't throw expensive exceptions.

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this comment is pretty obviously written by AI

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Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't seem interested in this. Their revenue is more than enough be able to invest and sustain the site forever, but they just increase expenses on non-core outgoings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CANCER

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Yes, last time I checked, Zig's comptime was 20x slower than interpreted Python. Parsing a non-trivial JSON file at comptime is excrutiatingly slow and can take minutes.

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    You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade.

    So we’re going to force you sell your car.

I don't think this is an accurate anaology. It's more like, you own the vast majority of grocery stores, and you make lemonade, and you force all the other grocery stores to only sell your lemonade.

To put it another way, the problem is not so much that Google shouldn't be paying to be the default search engine, but that it shouldn't own both the browser and the search engine.

I think this harkens back to the anti-trust court case, United States v. Paramount Pictures, where the court ruled that the film studios cannot hold monopolies over the movie theatres, and that theatres must remain independent.

Similarly, browsers and search engines being independent is good for competition because the internet is too important to let a single company dictate how it is used.

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> The above code is simple and correct

Unfortunately not:

Using notifyAll and wait in Java is tricky to do correctly, you'd have a much easier chance using concurrency primitives that wrap these functions, like CountDownLatch[1] for one offs, or Condition[2].

System.currentTimeMillis is also not guaranteed to be monotonic, and System.nanoTime should be used instead. This would of course be obviated if a better concurrency primitive were to be used.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.base...

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.base...

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soma fm has some good online radio stations: https://somafm.com/ (and shows you the track and artist)

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GnuCash and KDE Money always seemed very similar to me. Why should I use GnuCash over KDE money?

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> You can use GraalPy with GraalVM JDK, Oracle JDK, or OpenJDK

https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/

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No wonder he heard from his brother that the Border Patrol were always hiring; they seemingly make it impossible to get hired.

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