Alex Ivanov

I post rarely here…

I don't see anything to dislike here. What the Bluesky team describes looks reasonable to me.

Had this problem yesterday… then a video suddenly started playing after a few minutes when I was in another tab.

4-panel comic. (1) [person finds bottle on shore] (2) [person reads message from inside bottle: ICMP ECHO REQUEST...] (3) [person writes on message ICMP ECHO REPLY...] (4) [person puts bottle back in water and leaves]

Ping

xkcd.com/3150/

Why does Windows 10 and rarer 11 add languages to keyboard layout switcher? It often adds English US and English UK, so that I have three English in the list. These phantom languages aren't in the Settings app. To remove them from the list, I have to add them first.

Ah, you don't say!

On the other hand, as soon as the script grows more than a few tens of lines, a C program would likely be more robust solution.

Often, it's quicker to write a shell script than a similar C program, which is a bonus, especially if you need to solve this problem once.

I'm afraid I'm not the person you're looking for.

Water is boiling now.

Awesome! 👍 I haven't used it myself yet.
Your description matched the problem: avoid writing JNI code to access native libraries, so I suggested using it. I understand it may not fit well into your specific case, though.

Has the time come to try Java FFM (Foreign Function and Memory) API? docs.oracle.com/en/java/java...

What an interesting case… ImageIcon.getNextID will overflow mediaTrackerID. bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8... Yet, apparently, it causes no issues whatsoever. github.com/openjdk/jdk/... #openjdk #java

That's unfortunate. Sorry to hear this…
It looks more and more people abandon social media platforms.

It's always this long.

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8355515: Clarify the purpose of forcePass() and forceFail() methods by manukumarvs · Pull Request #25091 · openjdk/jdk Clarified the purpose of forcePass() and forceFail() methods and recommended usage of these methods. forcePass() contained an incorrect sample; it's addressed by JDK-8355441. The description of...

Thanks to github.com/openjdk/jdk/..., PassFailJFrame documentation now has a section dedicated to its forcePass() and forceFail() methods. #openjdk

Still, it's cosier with curtains.
Yet… you'll have to get wider curtains.

All languages are confusing. Maybe, English is less confusing than others.

Thank you. This helps.
The descriptions of the methods used “forcibly”, but when I was writing another description I used “forcefully” for whatever reason. So, I looked up both words in dictionaries, and I concluded “forcibly” fits. Yet I still had doubts.

Me in an orange and black singlet with bib number 476 on my chest and in maroon shorts. I stand in front of Irish Runner Series panel, and I wave my right hand. Distance: 5 km; time: 22:15; pace: 4:25/km.

I set a new PB in Irish Runner 5K, it's now 22:12. I'm delighted. Hard training pays off.

I started to wonder which adverb suits better: ‘forcibly pass/fail a test’ or ‘forcefully…’ Does any native English speaker have an opinion?

“Silver” medal for half marathon at Regeneron Great Limerick Run 2025

Yesterday I ran half marathon at Great Limerick Run, I ran it in 1:44:16. It's a new PB! ☺️ So happy! 🏃‍♂️

In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces

Today I've got a chance to reference “In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox”. tonsky.me/blog/checkbox/

What a great reimagining of Savage Garden's classic song.

If a menu item has an icon, it's impossible to tell whether it's selected or not. How should JDK address the problem? There's a long discussion in the PR for JDK-
8348760: github.com/openjdk/jdk/...

A menu rendered by Swing in Windows 10: the first menu item has purplish background around the red square to indicate it's selected; the third menu item has purplish background around the cyan square to indicate it's selected; the fourth menu item renders the default check-mark which also has purple background; the fifth menu item renders a green square as its icon; all the icons are aligned.

The same menu rendered by Swing in Windows 11: there are no purplish background around icons so it's impossible to tell if a menu item with custom icon is selected or not, it's true for the first (radio) menu item and the third (check) menu item; the fourth menu item displays the default check-mark to indicate selection, there's no special background around the check-mark.

Windows 10 and Windows 11 have different menu skins, and a selected / checked menu item no longer has a selected background in Windows 11. The screenshot on the left is from Windows 10, the right one is from Windows 11.

JDK-8346465 : Add a check in setData() to restrict the update of Built-In ICC_Profiles by honkar-jdk · Pull Request #23606 · openjdk/jdk Built-in Profiles are singleton objects and if the user happens to modify this shared profile object via setData() then the modified version of the profile is returned each time the same built-in p...

Modifying built-in ICC Profiles isn't wise, so it will be prohibited. What exception should be thrown in this case: IllegalStateException or IllegalArgumentException? #openjdk #codereview github.com/openjdk/jdk/...

You had a very productive day. Well done!

Happy to hear it.