The only JavaScript offering from Oracle that I know of is GraalVM[0]. It's funny though - they use "JavaScript" and "ECMAScript" interchangeably in their docs. They call it "A high-performance embeddable JavaScript runtime for Java" but then tout it as "ECMAScript Compliant", basically acknowledging that JavaScript is defined by ECMAScript specs and the terms mean the same thing.

[0] https://www.graalvm.org/javascript/

(Not a lawyer, just a nerd observing terminology)

Them calling it ECMAScript in some instances means that it follows the actual ECMA spec for ECMAScript (what everyone calls JavaScript historically). Them calling it JavaScript implies it could be their flavor, or something like Node and not necessarily strictly ECMAScript, at least that'd be the reason I'd use it interchangeably.

not sure if this is why they do it, but trademark law requires you to have a generic name for your product. "Kleenex brand facial tissue"

not having and using a generic name creates the danger of people attaching your trademarked name as the generic and you might lose your trademark.

The webpage: https://stopjava.com/

I didn't even think of entering that URL when watching the video. Nice one!

Fun, but now he has to deal with the lawyers at Oracle

menus didn't work, firefox

The page contains simply an image stretched to 100% width. The only text in the page is the title in the <title> element at the top and a footer fixed at the bottom right corner. The main content is just one image.

Here is a direct link to the image: https://stopjava.com/stopjava.jpg

This reminds me of the old prank where you replace the desktop of someones's PC with a screenshot so they think the computer is broken. Seems like this also works nicely on the web :)

It's a Jpeg, and there's no active scripts, it's mainly meant for the video, but they went through the hassle of getting a domain name and uploading this, nice.

Even when passing the array as a borrow instead of a clone[1], map still auto-vectorizes and performs the new allocation in one go, avoiding the bounds check and possible calls to grow_one

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/K9z6PvdYh

If on Gemini Advanced you say

> Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with the letter "k"?

The answer is

> Kenya is a country in Africa that begins with the letter "k."

So, in Google search is using another model?

I would assume Google search is using a cheaper, flakier model. But it could also be that some contractor spent 30 minutes teaching Gemini that Kenya starts with a K. This specific example is a well-known LLM mistake and it seems plausible that Gemini would specifically be trained to avoid it.

The basic problem with commercial LLMs from Big Tech is that they have the resources to "patch over" errors in reasoning with human refinement, making it seem like the reasoning error is fixed when it is only fixed for a narrow category of questions. If Gemini knows about Africa and K, does it know Asia and O? (Oman) Or some other simple variation.

Probably a lightweight one, given the absurd power requirements that can make a single prompt cost dozens of cents

I live in Perú, and I have 400Mbps internet FTTH with no data cap, and the price is 37 USD [1], the competition of the internet providers is incredibly good for the consumers.

The lowest plan that mi ISP offers is 100Mbps and is at 21 USD.

[1] https://www.movistar.com.pe/hogar/internet/solo-internet (Link in Spanish)

According to wikipedia the average monthly salary in Peru is $502 US. $37 per month doesn't seem that cheap to me.

As another point of comparison, a new ISP in my area of London is offering symmetric gigabit fiber for £25/month or around $30/month (USD).

Your country requires ISPs to share and rent lines. That does a great deal for competition and lowering prices

$30/month USD compared to the average salary in London is pretty good. We unfortunately don't have much competition among ISP's here in the US.

It's running on many e-Passports and e-ID cards, i can't find the documentation from my e-ID card which runs on Java, but the chips are quite common like in

https://www.cardlogix.com/product/cardlogix-credentsys-lite-...

And on another source:

Visa became the first large payment company to license JavaCard. Visa mandated JavaCard for all of Visa’s smartcard payment cards. Later, MasterCard acquired Mondex, and Peter Hill joined as their CTO, licensed JavaCard, and ported the Mondex payment platform to JavaCard.

Source: https://javacardforum.com/2022/07/28/the-birth-of-javacard/