Readit NewsMicrosoft learned the hard way to not treat contractors like employees. https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-...
Nobody else wants to learn that same lesson.
FOSS smartphones such as the Pinephone would then need a whole bunch of accelerators to perform such computations because the general purpose CPU would be too slow for that, and image could take seconds to finish processing and get saved in the gallery. But at that point Pinephone itself would not have enough expertise for such a design and everything would crumble.
- how do virtual threads fit into a web framework?
- do virtual threads make debugging more difficult? (A more general JVM question, I suppose)
- any performance / readability benefit, or just a coolness factor?
1. It's built natively on Jetty - very tight integration, not just some libs running in a Jetty container.
2. Web is inherently Request/Response - all of this can be handled with dramatically less resource requirements using Virtual Threads. Web is sort of the absolutely-best-use-case for Virtual Threads where as a Game Engine would be the opposite of that (one critical rendering thread and MAYBE a few extra long-lived threads for processing physics, audio, etc.)
3. I haven't tried debugging a Loom project but it's been in incubation for just under 100 years so I have to imagine this has been figured out.
4. About twice the throughput and 1/2 the latency of full OS threads - https://github.com/ebarlas/project-loom-comparison
I knew what I was doing (with it) so it wasn't a problem, but if I over open sourced the API and provided it as a library I would envision a large portion of the population trying to handle the events in a multi-threaded context or throwing them into a List only to find the values changing on them during use (while the parser was still running on another thread).
Performance was so tempting, but usability-face-shot-gun was the greater evil.
It would require no more work on the side of the academics -- they are already doing all the work for Elsevier -- and the administrative costs of hiring editors would almost certainly be equal to the fees they currently send to Elsevier.
The fact that they haven't makes me think that, with the exception of independent universities such as MIT, Elsevier's lobbyists are able to lean on the political people at the top of most large universities.
This is exactly what happened to eBay for anyone that remembers when it was garage-sale mania, then it became publicly traded and effectively became Target.com with < 1% of personal things sprinkled in.
No one messing with quarterly earnings.
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The entire notion of taxpayer funded student loans is a scam on both taxpayers and students. It’s a system that allows the colleges/universities to charge any tuition they want and guarantees there will be an artificial demand.
For about a decade at least 1M student loan holders default per year. Long before the defaults reached that high, everyone involved knew that student loans were far outpacing the economic value, and yet not a single college or university stepped up in goodfaith to blow the whistle, they continued to suckle at the tit to the detriment of their own students.
Education is supposed to benefit students and the nation as a whole but the ridiculousness of loans has ensured it ruins lives and at >$1.5T in taxpayer funded debt that continues to grow exponentially it is a detriment to the country.
Collapse of student loans will of course have an impact of the college/university landscape, but the industry as a whole will not collapse, rather tuition will “collapse”, or come down, to what students can actually afford out of pocket without going into debt. And if the universities/colleges somehow can’t survive on existing taxpayers subsidies from the Dept. of Educations $68B annual budget plus out of pocket tuition rates, then welcome to the real world your university/college is a failed business.
They aren't inherently more polluting.