I haven't heard about fiber optic drones [0] before and it turns the fiber optic used by them is much stronger [1] than I initially suspected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_optic_drone

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh7SYWl79no

Not sure why the sibling comment is dead, it's an interesting topic. Here is a safe for work video of someone walking through countless strands of fibre over a field: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1l0ld99/...

I read one operator describe the forests as being like Mirkwood from the Hobbit. Eerie.

They are quite beautiful -

https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryPorn/comments/1kzy817/field...

https://www.tiktok.com/@united24.na/video/748403971532320286...

https://www.tiktok.com/@united24.media/video/748912820925079...

Sparkling in the sky (they track and kill the men in this video after the 10 second mark so you might stop there) - https://x.com/ng_ukraine/status/1891534054811439380

High def footage, 60 fps until they hit.

They are definitely useful for civilians, but seem dangerous. If you hit them on a motorbike etc. If you google kites and banned Chinese lines and road accidents its quite gory, but before the illegal kite lines accidents didn't seem to happen. So something should work for optic fibers.

Run one to your mates house 10km away for the pay-per-view?

I was thinking you should be able to turn this into cheap fiber to the premises.

Furthermore, there's ongoing work ([0] and related JEPs) to allow running single Java files without an enclosing class and the static main method:

  void main() {
      System.out.println("Hello, World!");
  }

This is currently (as of JDK 24) under preview, so such a file needs to be run with "--enable-preview". E.g.

  $ java --enable-preview HelloWorld.java
  Hello, World!

[0] https://openjdk.org/jeps/445

With the latest EA release (EA 24) of JDK 25 [1], you no longer need the `--enable-preview`. You can also simplify the println to:

  void main() {
      IO.println("Hello, World!");
  }

JEP 445 has been followed by JEP 512 which contained minor improvements and finalizes the feature [2].

If you want to use 3rd-party libraries, I highly recommend trying JBang [3].

[1] https://jdk.java.net/25/release-notes

[2] https://openjdk.org/jeps/512

[3] https://www.jbang.dev

Hmmm... Disappointing that the static methods are no longer imported as of JEP 512. I thought that was the whole point of the new IO class. If we can't write "println" we might as well just write "System.out.println".

Sometimes I feel like the word "reading" should be reserved for reading longer-form content like articles, blog posts, books, etc.

Your mind goes into a completely different state when you are immersed in a single topic vs when you are consuming textual content that causes context switches every 10 seconds.

I wonder whether they have plans to open source the JetBrains Copilot extension as well. It feels like it's receiving much less attention than the VS Code extension (which is understandable).

This seems to be an HTML version of an email, which is being hosted by Hubspot (probably because the email was sent via them).

> Like a business coach/matchmaker and dating coach/matchmaker in one. Imagine just receiving high-potential connections for both, in your inbox, every day, according to whatever criteria you value.

This reminded me of one Black Mirror episode [0] which is about something very similar for dating.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710978/

I will have to watch that episode!

I think having some kind of a sign/light on a vehicle (especially big one) saying that it's being operated autonomously could be quite useful. You can't wave at an autonomous vehicle and expect it to understand from the context why you are waving at it.

Why would you be needing to wave at a vehicle?

I had to look this one up as well as the sibling comment, but the question reminded me of the Betteridge's law of headlines [0] and it looks like this law is indeed applicable here (meaning that nothing has been paid yet).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

As LLMs keep getting better, I hope there will always be a Kagi of LLMs.

Sometimes I wonder what future Chinese cities will look like in a few decades from now, given that the current ones already look so futuristic.

It depends if they stagnate or not. Japan used to be future, but it got stuck in the past.