In fairness I think a lot of people (me included) genuinely thought that would be an entertaining name for the ship, so the polling result wasn't necessarily wrong per se.

Fair, though it does show how things like that can skew polling results.

i.e. engagement bait

Also using Moto G-series phones for a decade or so now. Seems I have more junk (gambling apps, linked in, etc.) to scrub off them each time though.

I could see myself splashing out on a more expensive phone if it were less locked down - so probably never. However I don't play games and as a Gen-Xer my laptop is where the rest of my digital life lives; it makes sense that those for whom the phone is their primary device would prioritise it more (especially with somewhat predatory financing).

Dave Plummer's a well known YouTuber. He pops up in a couple of DEC groups that I'm in on Facebook. However I'm not a fan. He seems to take a lot and contribute only self-promotional videos.

The photo on this page looks very AI heavy. I'm not an expert but I really don't think those light panels are real (if they're real they're not contemporary to the machines they're in).

(Edit: I should qualify that I don't mean the panel with the octet switches, that looks roughly right - I mean the one under the 8" disks and the one on the vaguely Vax-pedestal looking thing)

Okay gotcha, sorry I was jumping to conclusions.

Given the AI-heavy page, I don't think your skepticism was unreasonable.

While we're reminiscing, I never did understand why Sun paid a billion dollars for MySQL in 2008.

So far the best theory I've heard was that it was bait to make them tastier to IBM and Oracle - but even that seems kind of weak; had they really given up at that point? Does anyone have a better theory?

To save those browsing the google: "International Conference on Learning Representation" so an AI conference.

> ... what happened?

Seriously?

I have no special insight, but I think this commenter cut to the core of the problem:

> "I came to the comments because the web page for Enzo explains everything except what the hell it does. Then I couldn't understand the [submission] comment either."

I think you need to practice your "elevator pitch" technique before you submit here again.

If you're making tea with a colander something is very wrong ;)

I was thinking an apt analogy might be making stock -- you filter out all the solid food you don't want to keep in the liquid.

And it's a doubly-good analogy, because I have occasionally gotten that confused in real-life as well. Twice in the past ten years I've had a stock boil away for three hours, and then set a colander in the sink and poured it through, only to watch my beautiful stock swirl down the drain because motor-memory made me forget that I wasn't draining pasta but should have put the colander in a bowl...

This is painfully relatable.

depends on the size of the sieve, but sometimes one does cook a whole stewpot of tea at once (f.e. in canteen)

A colander would allow the tea leaves through to no purpose. A colander is a type of sieve but a sieve is not necessarily a colander.

The Eurovision song contest includes Australia in its member nations. Mindblowing I know, but it's possible for a thing to transcend its name.

I remember Dolphin being a particularly painful one, and as I recall it ended up with some weird compromises (wasn't erasure supposed to avoid needing to update the bytecode format, but then annotations required it anyway? Something along those lines)

yeah - they took forever, one reason being that Sun was in financial troubles and then acquisition took a long time.

Second was about licensing and Apache Harmony.

So, eventually they dropped most of the big things that were planned - Project Lambda with closures, Project Jigsaw with modularisation, Collection Literals. They eventually came back, but took a while to implement, so it was a prudent decision to make.

Java releases used to be glacial multi-year affairs. Lots of discussion of features that then missed the release train and you knew they'd not be with you for another multi-year period.

They made a conscious decision to switch to a regular six-month cadence and it's been all the better for it. The preview-mechanism has been terrific there too, allowing half-baked features to be aired without absolutely committing to something that turns out to be flawed.

Edit: Ninja-ed by Romario77's sibling comment :)