RB does not make votes proportional. I value parties being able to work together and compromise, and the house looking like the voting share.
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RB does not make votes proportional. I value parties being able to work together and compromise, and the house looking like the voting share.
Talk about Ranked Choice Voting but preferably only in a Proportional Representation system like STV.
Interesting post by Ralph! Been programming in #Java for a while and did not know about System.console() or the ListFormat class.
Small changes in Java 22 to 25 - blog.rasc.ch/2025/09/java...
Sounds cool. Do I need to know #Python?
A new podcast from @stackdpodcast.bsky.social my day just got better. #Java
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Is there any thought to have Optional, ThreadLocal, AtomicReference or Map support some kind of pattern matching to go when the collection contains the key?
The original one I think was CAFEBABE but I think it's gone up in values as time has passed.
A peripatetic performance by the Shuffle Demons in Toronto’s Kensington market
JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects (Preview) has moved from Draft to Submitted !! #OpenJDK #Valhalla
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Did you make the image? Where did you find it? #Java #Duke
You'll have to get a new handle, the omniAuthor ;)
#ProportionalRepresentation that perhaps uses RCV would be so much better as it would better guarantee that parties beyond the top two would get accurately reflected in the legislature.
#ProportionalRepresentation for the win. 20% of the voters should be approximately 20% of the seats. Use RCV within a PR system.
Eli recommended a podcast called “The Conversation”, could you post a link to it, please.
While I think uglier... I think Adam Bien is a fan of using the System.Logger then you don't have to worry about imports.
Which STV would do better than SMP.
I would prefer a system that favours no party. Percentage vote should approximately be percentage of seats.
Shame neither of our countries have proportional representation. Single transferable vote would make for a nice basis.
I was writing Java before Records came along but if I were to be taught java from the start, I wonder if I'd like to be taught Records before Classes because Records are a simpler use case. (Maybe I'd need the simpler main mechansim first).
Don't swallow Exceptions.
Only use Interfaces when you have multiple implementations.
REAL programmers will tell you to favour immutable classes. /s
What are good use cases?
Perhaps create a second constructor that takes in ints and casts the results to the real constructor ?
It does but we’ve just had another Java release, so at least something is getting better.
Looking forward to trying the new AOT features.
A day without #Java is like a day without sunshine.
