Huh? That is its primary use case and it is outstanding. Speed is on the low side? That is nonsense. It is the fastest internet I have ever had. I always get above 100 Mbps, sometimes it pushes into 250+ Mpbs territory.

Paul definitely conquered the galaxy. He was just unwilling to complete the golden path which would have required him to become a brutal tyrant. So we left for the desert and his kids completed the golden path.

He doesn't need to think about it. There are 5 books after Dune that how the story moves forward. (8 if you count the more recent ones written by his son and Kevin Anderson based on notes left by Frank Herbert)

Amazon has turned into a domestic AliExpress. In fact a lot of products are exactly the same for like triple or more the price on Amazon than AliExpress. I just don't trust I am getting a quality or even legitimate product from seller DXHNDSJ and ZNOSHDJ. Amazon just sells cheap counterfeit stuff these days.

That isn't how it works at all.

This type of call back feature was protected by patent until it expired in 2015. The patent was held by a company called Virtual Hold and they defended it fiercely. They weren't just a patent troll though, they actually had a software based product. They basically got a patent for "I will give you a call back when I have time". The patent system is so broken: https://patents.google.com/pat... Once the patent expired you started seeing everyone doing this. I was a developer at a call center related company at the time and added a call back feature to our software based ACD right after the patent expired.

Can you provide clear example of how python is more versatile than Java? What do you mean by this? What do you mean by "more modern"? By less cumbersome do you mean less verbose? The interesting thing about verbosity is that verbose means easy to read. I find python hard to read because I am always wondering what type I am working with because it is dynamically typed.

I have no idea what you mean by this. Oracle continued Sun's work of open sourcing Java and that culminated in OpenJDK which is Oracle's open source reference implementation of the Java SE Specification. It is licensed GPL v2 with class path exception. You can get builds of OpenJDK from several vendors (including Oracle themselves) which are completely free to use anywhere. You can get Oracle's OpenJDK builds here: https://jdk.java.net./ If you prefer another vendor you can also get OpenJDK builds from Temurin, Azul, Amazon, RedHat, etc. A few java vendors such as Oracle and Azul offer paid support, RedHat offers Java support but it is bundled with some other paid services. In the case of Oracle if you buy Java support from them you install Oracle JDK instead which is their commercial build of OpenJDK. Oracle JDK has a different license from OpenJDK which Oracle can do because they are the copyright holder of all OpenJDK sources so get their rights as copyright holder, and not from the GPL license. This only matters if you buy java support from Oracle.

All the java language architects work for Oracle and Oracle is by far the largest contributor to OpenJDK in terms of both developers and money.

My company uses Java 17 and will be going to Java 21 later this year (we write online banking software).

I liked The Night Agent, it was a good show.

Yes, all StarLink sats. launched in the last year or so have laser inter-links. The early sats. didn't have them though.

I use FireFox for all my testing because it has the best web dev tools.

Well yeah, if you don't need/want commercial support from Oracle then you don't use their commercial build of OpenJDK which they call Oracle JDK. Instead use a GPL build of OpenJDK (which Oracle also provides at https://jdk.java.net/ or another build of OpenJDK from your favorite Java vendor. Remember that OpenJDK is Oracle's open source implementation of the Java SE specification. As far as I know there is no other Java SE implementation. All vendors (including Oracle themselves) build from OpenJDK. (this includes Azul, Red Hat, Amazon, Temurin, etc)

But Amazon Corretto is built from OpenJDK and OpenJDK is Oracle's open source implementation of the Java SE specification. You seem to be confused about what OpenJDK is.

This is a very strange comment. OpenJDK is Oracle's open source implementation of the Java SE specification. OpenJDK _is_ Oracle. All the Java language architects also work for Oracle and Oracle is the biggest contributor to OpenJDK in both money and developers. So Java definitely needs Oracle.

That's strange, we write online banking software and most of our services run just fine in 128 megs of heap. We have a couple that deal with database tables with millions of rows that need a little more, Something is seriously wrong with your app.