Introduction Welcome to a new issue of the High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter in which we share articles, videos, workshops, and StackOverflow answers that are very relevant to any developer who interacts with a database system using Java. Articles The pick of this week … | Continue reading
To our treasured [COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY NAME] community, This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY COLLECTIVE NOUN] overtook the historic [CENTRAL CAMPUS LOCATION NAMED AFTER PROBLEMATIC DONOR]. Thankfully, the [CAMPUS POLICE / MUNICI … | Continue reading
In a huge update this week (May 1) Snapchat announced several new upcoming features including one long requested by users… Continue reading New Snapchat update finally introduces editable Snaps The post New Snapchat update finally introduces editable Snaps appeared first on ReadW … | Continue reading
Anthropic, developers of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude, announced this week that they have launched an iOS app. The… Continue reading Anthropic’s Claude AI is coming to iOS as an app The post Anthropic’s Claude AI is coming to iOS as an app appeared first on Rea … | Continue reading
The fossil shark Ptychodus was first identified 190 years ago, but in the intervening centuries of paleontological inquiry, a comprehensive look at the ancient fish has been hard to come by. Until now. In a paper published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a te … | Continue reading
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming. If you have a question or topic you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast channel on the Clojurians Slack. This … | Continue reading
The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. There are some exceptions, but in general, it’s a huge win for passengers who are tired of air … | Continue reading
Disappointing streaming changes are happening so fast that it's hard to keep up. | Continue reading
Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as it prepares to embark on its mission of sailing through low Earth orbit. Read more... | Continue reading
Georgia Power announced this week that the 1,114-megawatt (MW) Unit 4 nuclear power reactor at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Georgia, entered into commercial operation after connecting to the power grid in March 2024. The commercial start of Unit 4 completes the 11-year expansion … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Federico and I interviewed two of the Swift Student Challenge winners on AppStories, which was a lot of fun. A new feature of the 2024 competition was the addition of Distinguished Winners. As Apple explains it in a press release published today: Out of 350 win … | Continue reading
Only 1 week in, we already have more than 1000 subscribers...and we're just getting started. | Continue reading
The California Forever project is one step closer to becoming a reality. This week, the ambitious project’s backers announced that they had received enough local support to trigger a ballot initiative. Local voters will now decide the fate of the project during the November elect … | Continue reading
This week on Magic Rays of Light, Sigmund and Devon make their long-awaited return to Las Colinas with Acapulco season three, share their predictions for Apple’s upcoming Let Loose event, and recap Constellation. Show Notes Air Cover Air Cover for Apple Vision Pro Vision Pro Chro … | Continue reading
While two nights of hard frosts last week had gardeners concerned (including me, I moved many of my flower and vegetable pots into the garage), spring seems to have finally arrived to southeast Michigan. Forsythia are mostly finished blooming. Eastern Redbud trees are covered in … | Continue reading
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This week, I have the pleasure of sharing with you my Q&A with Lisa Kaltenegger about her new book, Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos. Lisa is a world-renowned astrobiologist and the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University. Earlier t … | Continue reading
One week before The Beatles documentary “Let It Be” debuts on Disney+, the streamer has released the first trailer. The Details The documentary movie was released 54 years ago, in 1970, as The Beatles were officially breaking up, and it was not initially received well by fans bec … | Continue reading
Somehow, we have arrived at episode 500 of Connected,1 and I’m so glad Apple waited to release new iPads until next week, so we could play our traditional game before the event next week: Apple’s first iPad event in over a year is next week, so the guys have dusted off their head … | Continue reading
The iPad, remember that? It’s been a minute since Apple unveiled new models of its tablets—about 807,690 minutes, to be precise—but all indications point to brand new models being rolled out as part of an Apple keynote next week, on May 7.… | Continue reading
An experimental satellite that launched in 1974 disappeared from ground-based sensors in the 1990s, only to be found again this week. Some defunct satellites or debris can often go missing for years, presenting hazards within an increasingly crowded Earth orbit. But, how exactly … | Continue reading
Current conditions: It will be 107 degrees Fahrenheit in Kolkata as Southeast Asia’s heat wave continues • Kansas and Oklahoma are on alert for tornadoes and large hail • The Eta Aquariids meteor shower peaks this week. THE TOP FIVE 1. Biden administration outlines rules for sust … | Continue reading
Challengers, a movie where Zendaya plays a tennis star who has a threesome, came out last week and, while I haven’t seen it yet, I sure do plan to. Director Luca Guadagnino’s new romantic tennis/thriller/drama is getting pretty good reviews, has a fun premise, and would seem to h … | Continue reading
This week on Ruminate, more snacks than you can shake a stick at, Weblog posting month 2024, Raycast experiments, and some new game controllers. Links and Show Notes Pringles Crocs: New shoes, ankle holster and crisp flavor unveiled Jalapeno Popper Cheese Curls Chupa Chups Cola P … | Continue reading
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, in The Lost Week-End (1940), their generally fascinating and informative social history of Great Britain between the world wars, make a great many Olympian pronouncements. They say, for instance, that Auden “perhaps never wrote an original line,” a c … | Continue reading
Twenty years ago this week, eight CEE countries joined the EU. According to analysis by the Polish Economic Institute, the GDP per capita of the eight countries in the region is 27 per cent higher than it would have been had they not joined. The real GDP per capita at purchasing … | Continue reading
This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to help people learn AI skills that can boost their productivity. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assuming no prior knowledge of programming, the course ventures to show students h … | Continue reading
Preorder my upcoming book, Get Better At Anything, and get $400+ worth of bonuses! The post My New Book Comes Out Next Week! appeared first on Scott H Young. | Continue reading
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is just over a week away and if you are still on the fence about it, a major revelation in a new trailer might change that. Read more... | Continue reading
“Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning.” This week, that saga once again begins in movie theaters with Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, returning for not just May the Fourth Be With You, but its 25th anniversary, happe … | Continue reading
This week, Federico joined John Gruber on The Talk Show for a wide-ranging conversation about: MacStories’ 15th anniversary and how blogging has changed over the years WWDC 2024 Federico’s MacPad Apple’s upcoming event on May 7th Apple’s response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act I … | Continue reading
It seems that the popular command-line system info tool Neofetch is dead, Jim. The Github repo for the project was archived by its main developer last week and is now read-only, a sure sign that development has well and truly ceased to be. Not that this is a shock given that deve … | Continue reading
A mysterious new AI chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” is turning heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities as OpenAI’s GPT-4. This … | Continue reading
Chinese automotive giant Chery spawned the Exeed luxury sports brand in 2017 and the Exeed E08 "concept MPV" shown at Auto China last week, has done just that. The Exeed 08 has used automation at six key points to vastly increase the usability of the vehicle and the optimisation … | Continue reading
A new kitchen is wildly exciting. It’s a blank canvas, a brand-new space to make all your own, a fresh start … that’s in desperate need of groceries. You need so many groceries that the first trip to the store can feel totally overwhelming — especially if you’re stocking your fri … | Continue reading
A new game has been added to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service this week and reviews of gameplay are… Continue reading This highly rated game has arrived on Xbox Game Pass The post This highly rated game has arrived on Xbox Game Pass appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
This past week has been one of contrasts. We recently invested in having Jaime Lee Mann write copy for us. The impetus was an ad run we are contracted to have for our Sleep Tight … | Continue reading
I don’t remember my dreams. But, since last week, I had two really weird ones. The first one was a sci-fi one including climate change, seas invading many cities, and myself trying to reach, and save my family. It was a mix between the Day After Tomorrow and San Andreas movies. T … | Continue reading
I celebrated 1337 likes last week. It’s a hacker-speak for “elite”, and a short form of 31337 or l33t. Some kids would speak like that on IRC when I first got online in the late 90s. It was some form of an anti-language, made to obfuscate conversations so that you don’t get autok … | Continue reading
As readers of this blog know, I’ve been working on a paper for a volume on campus crises. This week, the volume feels all the more relevant (if not, to use everyone’s favorite academic term “urgent”). I’m putting the final touches on the first draft of my chapter which will focus … | Continue reading
The end of March came around while we were on our big US trip. Then I was really sick and things were hectic coming back and blah blah blah somehow we're at the end of April. So this update is a month late. Notable We went to Disneyland!! Most of the month was spent preparing for … | Continue reading
Time for another design mistake, this time from our new Internet Service Provider (ISP). We switched last week because I required a business subscription as part of the cost-optimization plan. In Belgium, there’s very little choice when it comes to ISPs, with two giants completel … | Continue reading
Your humble author knows these editions fly off the shelves like hot cakes. So while you keep updating, I’ll keep posting! Enjoy these not-so-fresh-off-the-presses updates to thoughtbot open source projects from February 2nd through February 16th. We saw updates to the following … | Continue reading
#505 — April 30, 2024 Unsub | Web Version ✍️ It's been a quiet week for big Go related news, but we still have a bumper issue because we have so many things we didn't get around to including earlier ;-) Here we go..! __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Weekly Sonic: A Newly Open Sour … | Continue reading
How did it come to this? The post I Played Five Call Of Duty Games Last Week And Now Feel Really Bummed Out appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
NBCUniversal’s Peacock will raise its prices by $2 this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. The price change is slated to go into effect on July 18 for new customers, just a week before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. If you’re just look … | Continue reading
Last week Anne put up a page for WeblogPoMo: What is it? Weblog Posting Month, 2024! If you use weblog.lol, or otherwise have a personal blog, you should absolutely participate in this month-long blog posting extravaganza! I said I'd participate so here we are, publicly committin … | Continue reading