Andrew Binstock

Yeah I know. I started looking for confirmation bias and pretty soon I found it everywhere ;-)

Interesting

What's the reasoning behind this change? Red Hat gives a totally different impression than IBM. IBM has a kind of faceless aspect.

Why limit the question to AI? As the great Alfred North Whitehead once pointed out, "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."

I love that quote.

I agree with the sentiment, but to say that Nixon didn't face any consequences is a bit of a stretch. He was impeached and forced out of office. That's definitely consequences.

Very sorry to read this. Strokes are scary! Best wishes to him that he can get back to normal life shortly!

Weird that the text that BlueSky shows says Jacobin runs Java 17 classes. The website has said Java 21 for months now. Slow caching apparently.

The Jacobin JVM project (jacobin.org) just reached the 3.5 year milestone. Like we do every six months, we just posted an update: what we've done, what we'll do next. Also numbers, like that our test code is 2.07x the size of our production code. Have a look: binstock.blogspot.com/2025/03/jaco...

"Hey, we made it to our destination. On time too. Time to deplane with my carry-on."

I enjoyed that. Thanks!

I had to check the actual photo to see whether the VW is really in it, and it is! That's very funny!

The station is spectacular, but I do wish travel sites would show more than just that one shot. There is lots of beauty in Antwerp beyond the station.

You learn writing a JVM that the shortcuts you took early on eventually become things you must fill in. Every single time! But the JVM is too big and too complex to develop fully in a single pass--so you have to stand up working code and then elaborate it, including rewriting parts. So it goes!

Java bytes are signed. 99% of the time that makes no difference, but the 1% makes byte handling in Jacobin a pain b/c golang (correctly, IMHO) makes bytes unsigned. We're constantly noodling code to use JavaBytes (an alias for int8), rather than the built-in byte type.

I'm surprised to discover that the #JVM looks first in interfaces rather than superclasses when trying to access a field not found in the present class. See bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8...

Fascinating design choice. Details of this kind are part of the joy of working on a JVM (jacobin.org)
#java

Working on Jacobin JVM is a process of understanding where you can deviate from the 600+ spec and get the same result. When you start out, you stay strictly faithful, but eventually you come to recognize that this little knob never needs turning and can be made into a switch, etc.