I think the last new instruction the JVM added was invokedynamic like 10 years ago. I believe they did it so lambdas could be called efficiently. Polymorphic incline cache and stuff.
But the JVM has grown more complex in other ways. The way to force simd instructions is pretty wild, for example.
I don't know enough to call it a mess or not. It works though.
A while ago I read a book where a town got nuked. Only it was just a rumor spread on Facebook. Town is fine. But tons of people believed it. Set up road blocks and stuff. For years.
edit: I thought, "there is no way people would do that." Oh well.
The sky above the port.
It sort of looked like you'd construct the key by input. Like an old school password entry screen or something. I wonder if you could correct horse battery stapler it enough to have a respectable key length.
I read it when I was YTs age. Then listened to it when I had kids that age.
I listened to the first one on audible a while back and didn't like it so much. I had trouble connecting with the charcters. The ideas were good and from what I hear about the next ones they are even more fun. But maybe it was a translation thing. Or a style thing or a cultural thing. It felt more like Clark than Card. I feel like the show made an effort to make the characters easier for me to connect with and I appreciate that.
The article does have a point for me though- linking the Game of Thrones folks in the marketing feels like a mistake. I don't trust them.
I think libraries vary a lot. Your library sounds lovely. My local ones are half way between what you are describing and the quieter places others are describing. But they are actively trying to be a third place.
I think your point is "some libraries are third places". And that point would hit harder if you gave folks grace. Don't assume they are speaking from ignorance but invite them to check out libraries if they haven't. I dunno.
My memory is hazy but I think it was this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/wikipedia-editor-allegedly-forced-by-french-intelligence-to-delete-classified-entry/
I used to work for them. It was weird and wonderful and I miss it and I don't. Lots of mission driven folks working hard to keep things going getting very little respect. But a lot of respect. But sometimes none.
Iirc a lot of their budget is spent doing charity stuff. Encouraging contributions for tiny languages. Trying not to cave to Russia or the US or France. Trying to make it less of a boys club. Trying to get local organizations going.
I remember once they sent an email that said "if the French government asks you to delete this page please just delete it. It's not worth going to jail. Someone outside of France will revert the delete."
I wasn't qualified for the work. No one was. But it was honest work.
I can't find any code samples. Just paragraphs of description. I'm sure it's lovely but I can't evaluate without code samples.
I put googly eyes on things.
I don't believe Prometheus supports geospatial data. Two minutes of googling though, so I could be wrong.