Even better would be some UI expert come up with an application interface for 10 common use cases. Then, give that to a group of designers, say it’s AI generated, and ask them to point out AI tells.
This was one of the promises of Java. You write your application and then you get a virtual machine (JVM). As time goes on you only maintain the virtual machine while the application remains the same.
The funny thing happened and verified this promise. There were several architects working on IBM System Object Model (SOM). In 1996-1997 many good things ended, and SOM was terminated. But the work was so good that two architects did not stop and wrote the book: Putting Metaclasses to Work (1998). That book has got reference implementation in Java. So we have IBM SOM as closed source binary and we have Java source codes.
IBM SOM executes on Windows 10. I have checked Visual Age for C++ Direct2SOM extensions, OpenDoc for Windows. Very good. 32-bit i386, but otherwise runnable, usable.
And Java is hard to build, hard to execute on modern Java toolkit. Java seemingly had no List, and authors made their own List, but when Java also got its List, that breaks the build. When building problems are resolved, runtime problems come. Original Java was seemingly fine with Property key being object, but modern Java only wants strings. And Property-based dictionaries are all around. PMtW is about building VMT, and there is multiple class inheritance in PMtW model, not matching Java's comparably limited OOP. So PMtW is building dictionaries for methods to support what is described in book, and foundational Java class is malfunctioning.
I did not finish this road, don't know so what does it take after all to run Java code from 1998 on modern Java toolkit. So far looks pathetic compared to Win32 programming.
It’s a common pattern in enterprise IT to take a useful spreadsheet and turn it into an application. Without fail, they turn into a forever chase of excel features re-implemented (and poorly) on some front end. Entire teams dedicated to features that would be two clicks away in excel ootb.
What Putin is feeling out is the very real possibility he uses a nuke on Kyiv or invades/attacks a NATO member and Europe just wrings their hands and turns away.
edit: there's no difference between launching a conventional cruise missile and one armed with a nuclear warhead. You'll only know after the attack not before.
That article is ridiculous “More expensive tomorrow, more affordable today”. It reads like a predatory credit card offer and is full of what if’s.
High property taxes pushing down the sales price of a house does not help the buyer or seller. The buyer is going to pay the same, just more in taxes vs the loan, and the seller is going to get less because high taxes have reduced the value of their home.
California is the perfect picture of neoliberalism. They've privatized as many government functions as possible and, shocker, the public-private partnership has ended up with a LOT of waste and fraud.
Without very strong oversight, you cannot trust these private companies to not simply suck down every single dollar the government is willing to offer. A private business whose only client is governments will never ever be cost effective. They'll always charge as much as possible while offering the most minimal quality possible. That's how they increase their profit margins.
This is how the government countered the people demanding the end of debtor’s prison. And it’s not “transferred on death” it’s whenever the house is sold whether the owner is alive or not. Property tax is just rent paid to the government and the taxman always gets their dues one way or the other.
As a parent of two teenagers in public magnet HS (one of which is top 10 in the US) I still say homeschooling is by far the best and what my wife and I would have done if it was an option.
Home school is best, private school if you can, public school if you must.
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