Interesting. We are more likely to like something we don’t need. We don’t need the newest iPhone, so we need to justify spending a lot of money on it and therefore rationalize to ourselves that it is better than the other phones. This would also explain why people like their kids. […]
Month: April 2017
A Danish newspaper put a lovely positive spin on the French election. It’s a great step for feminism that France now has a real chance of getting a female president. It’s great that young girls can have the example of a strong woman like Marine as something to strive for. I would like to add […]
My laptop is being upgraded. I have a nagging suspicion it’s like upgrading to Gnome 2 or Windows ME. Or from the trunk of a murderer’s car to United. […]
The main lesson I have learned from working with the Dutch energy market is that it is possible to switch providers from Naked Energy to Dong. Also, I’m apparently 12. […]
For one customer, we have two test environments, FAT-N and FAT-H. We are discussing setting up a third one, so I’m gonna lobby it is called FAT-I, so we can write them as ФАТ-Н, ФАТ-Х and ФАТ-И in Cyrillic. […]
Anybody knows a good Thread pool executor for Java which supports hierarchical allocations and stealing? I have a bunch of individual background and foreground tasks, and want to make an allocation for foreground tasks and for individual task types, but allow background tasks to use available threads if not used. […]