Diego Visentin

@SkarredGhost @firefox Maybe this can help to find the issue reddit.com/r/firefox/comm…

I thought I had made a record last time, but @firefox managed to beat itself: more than 80GB occupied in RAM with like 6 tabs open. Please donate on my Patreon so that I can buy a whole server cluster to be allowed to run Wordpress inside Firefox to write my blog posts...

@niro02 @Cr1st14nM3s14n0 @andst7 Insomma. Nel 1964 lanciammo in orbita con successo il satellite San Marco, terza nazione al mondo dopo URSS e USA. Nel 1966 eravo il terzo produttore di energia atomica al mondo dopo USA e UK. Mentre in Olivetti si creava la Programma 101. Non eravamo, e non siamo, solo pizza&c

@Cr1st14nM3s14n0 @andst7 Cristian, questo tema vale oggi come valeva nel 1969. Noi andavamo in giro con la Vespa e loro atterravano sulla luna. Devo però dirti che la mia nazione OGGI come ieri non mi appare moralmente distrutta come gli Stati Uniti (quelli veri, non quelli patinati delle metropoli).

L’intervista di Walter Veltroni a Claude sul Corriere della Sera mi ricorda lo zio con gli occhiali da vista messi sulla testa, che ti ferma entusiasta per farti vedere il video divertente del 2020 che ha appena scaricato

Everyone's been waiting for "the European Amazon" for 20 years. Turns out it might be a discount grocery chain. Dutch Central Bank just picked Lidl as its cloud provider. Not AWS. Not Google. Not Microsoft. Lidl. The reason: trust in US tech is eroding across European institutions. Data sovereignty rulings, the political climate, tariff drama. Every quarter the case for sitting on top of US infrastructure gets harder to defend. So Europe is decoupling. Quietly. Contract by contract. While everyone watches the political theatre. Lidl pulled in nearly €2B from cloud last year. All infrastructure built inside the EU. The "European alternative" people have been waiting for? Turns out it's a grocery chain that's been quietly investing for years. If a discount supermarket can win central bank cloud contracts, is US big tech's moat in Europe thinner than anyone admits? Last place anyone was looking. First to deliver.

@Pinperepette 👏👏👏

Sento dire spesso: «ma se non hai nulla da nascondere, perché ti preoccupi?». Rispondo sempre uguale: la privacy non serve a nascondere, serve a esistere. Nessuno mette una porta in bagno perché dentro succedono crimini. La metti perché alcune cose sono tue, e basta. Chi confonde trasparenza con sorveglianza non ha capito né l'una né l'altra.

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture. I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back. His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach. Here's the story almost nobody tells you. Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds. The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away. The decision quietly changed how the world learns math. For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb. Strang inverted the entire curriculum. He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood. His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct. The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room. For 62 years. The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet. Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos. His final lecture was in May 2023. The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out. His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right. That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management. The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home. 20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge. The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free. The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

@mariofusco I haven't had the chance to see the new BMW i3 in person yet. From the videos, it doesn't look bad to me. You're right, my example wasn't fair. I just meant that IMO some Chinese cars look like a pile of big boxes.

@ildivenire That's the "old" BMW style, did you see the neue klasse? 🤮 Moreover your comparison is unfair, you took 2 totally different cars, a big SUV and a sporty sedan, I chose 2 comparable cars with same target of customers.

Unpopular opinion (maybe?): Chinese cars, other than offering a much better quality/price ratio, are nowadays much closer to European tastes than European cars.

@BenjDicken Since I’ll have to keep paying bills and taxes for many years to come, I’d say COBOL or Java 😅

You can only build software in one for the rest of your life: Go Zig Rust What are you choosing?

@TechOperator prince.exe 😅

You walk up to your computer and see this screen. Your next move?

@RaphaelDeLio @jilvinjacob @ayshriv @brunoborges I understand your scenario, since until a couple of years ago I had to use Java8 because of the enterprise product I’m working on (it now runs on Java17 and soon on Java21). Integration projects were a breath of fresh air for me, as they allowed me to use up-to-date techs.

@ildivenire @jilvinjacob @ayshriv @brunoborges I use Java 25 on a daily basis. But that’s because I’m not working on enterprise systems anymore. When I was, teams I worked with were against new innovations. We couldn’t even use Java records. 🤯 That’s why I said what I did. I saw people arguing against streams… Java 8…

Java has evolved, but the community hasn't caught up, it seems. Most tutorials on the web still teach the old patterns. Checkout: javaevolved.github.io Thank you @brunoborges❤️ #Java

@Cr1st14nM3s14n0 Mettendomi in modalità Bar Sport: e con Draghi Presidente della Repubblica.

Si va verso Cingolani premier.

@RaphaelDeLio @jilvinjacob @ayshriv @brunoborges I agree that we wandered in the wilderness for many years, despite the excellent OSS projects that kept coming out. However, starting with Java 17, there have been constant releases with significant innovations, so I invite you to come back to the light side of the Force🤭

@ildivenire @jilvinjacob @ayshriv @brunoborges Problem is that if the community doesn’t share the same enthusiasm, you end up feeling like you’re left behind and start becoming curious about other technologies instead. That’s why I moved on to Kotlin even though Java 25 offers many of its capabilities.

@RaphaelDeLio @jilvinjacob @ayshriv @brunoborges It is possible that this is the same syndrome that affected COBOL and RPG programmers. Curiosity can serve as an effective antidote in such situations.

@jilvinjacob @ayshriv @brunoborges From my experience, many java devs want to stay in Java 8 forever..

thatsMinimumRequirement redd.it/1sd5ivq

@FireFox46 @f_hassel @RiccardoTrezzi Mi par di capire che diversi servizi non richiedano alcuna autenticazione perché la risposta arriva via posta. Sicuramente semplifica il processo per il cittadino e implica anagrafiche e un sistema postale eccellenti. Oltre alla Svizzera, altre nazioni adottato questo approccio?

@ildivenire @f_hassel @RiccardoTrezzi Non so cosa ci sia all'estero ma una identificazione sicura non la si ottiene con una semplice user e password. Sfugge anche a me la reale problematica

🇮🇹 Sono a trovare mia mamma per Pasqua. Le ho dato una mano con alcuni siti della PA italiana. Mi hanno colpito due cose: lo SPID (livello idiozia 9/10) e UX/UI (livello di imbarazzo 11/10). Potete metterci tutti i soldi che volete ma penso sia chiaro che il primo, devastante problema è il livello del capitale umano. Occorrono 30 anni per sistemare il Paese.

@BenjDicken @brunoborges And in addition to performance, energy consumption must be considered for today's popular AI scenarios arxiv.org/html/2501.1477…

More languages, more insights! A few interesting takeaways: * Java and Kotlin are quick! Possible explanation: Google is heavily invested in performance here. * Js is really fast as far as interpreted / jit languages go. * Python is quite slow without things like PyPy.

@FireFox46 @f_hassel @RiccardoTrezzi Buono a sapersi. Quindi se tutte le app sono decenti, sfugge il punto di critica del sistema.

@ildivenire @f_hassel @RiccardoTrezzi Io uso Poste da prima del COVID, comodissima.

@f_hassel @RiccardoTrezzi Ho il dubbio che spesso lo si associ all'app del provider. Quella delle Poste mi dicevano pessima. La mia è banale: notifica del msg ricevuto in push e conferma.

@RiccardoTrezzi Ma perché tutto questo odio per Spid?

🤣😂🤣 #rofl

@r0ktech Just like Eclipse, IntelliJ, or NetBeans... 🤷‍♂️

the VS Code ecosystem is unreal > you can write Python in VS Code > you can write Java in VS Code > you can write Shell scripts in VS Code > you can build Dockerfiles in VS Code > you can write Terraform in VS Code > you can manage Git from VS Code > you can run databases in VS Code > you can deploy to cloud in VS Code > you can manage Kubernetes in VS Code > you can connect to remote servers in VS Code > you can manage REST APIs in VS Code