@stuartmarks

Java/JDK/OpenJDK developer, Oracle. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. Also @stuartmarks@mastodon.social

 Santa Clara, California, USA
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Joined February 2009
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom
My scariest Outer Limits moment was seeing the empty radiation suits with lightning instead of a face, in The Production And Decay Of Strange Particles (with Leonard Nimoy).
A radiation suit with a lightning storm behind the faceplate

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Replying to @stuartmarks @TonyPrintezis
This is what was next in my timeline. 😆
Dr. McCoy from “Star Trek” saying, “Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes.”

ALT Dr. McCoy from “Star Trek” saying, “Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes.”

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So this appeared in our cupboard today. Wife said it was on sale for 1/3 the price of Best Foods mayonnaise! In her defense, she said “Well at least it’s not Miracle Whip.”
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I had to get a bag of these at the grocery store today after last night’s encounter with Commodore Decker’s planet killer. / @danak6jq @RadioFreeTom
an opened bag of Bugles snacks, which are narrow cone shapes, kind of similar in shape to Star Trek’s Doomsday Machine

ALT an opened bag of Bugles snacks, which are narrow cone shapes, kind of similar in shape to Star Trek’s Doomsday Machine

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Replying to @RadioFreeTom
Classic Scotty maneuver.
Scotty hanging onto the warp cage in Engineering

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Current Stack Overflow reputation:
profile info box showing reputation score of 123,456 plus a couple other graphs of reputation statistics

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#JavaOne then and now. (Thanks to @fguime for the pic.)
Stuart Marks in the foreground wearing a black JavaOne shirt with 1990s Java logo and red/white/purple colors, and with the 2022 JavaOne welcome arch in the background showing the current Java logo and teal/orange colors

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Chandra Guntur sighting in the Community Keynote!! @CGuntur #chandraguntursighting
JavaOne keynote stage with Sharat Chander speaking, showing a picture of Chandra Guntur

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Working on adding duck typing to Java. #JavaOne
two rows of multi colored toy rubber ducks on a wood table

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They actually have flamingos at the Flamingo hotel! #JavaOne
flamingos on a lawn near a pond, with other birds, in a flamingo habitat (large courtyard) of the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas

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This is what happens when you run a million puppies on a single core, one GB container, like @brunoborges did. / @mariofusco youtube.com/watch?v=aGE39Ise…

The Attack of Puppy Golden Retrievers Puppies

After a few weeks of joy with 9 Golden Retriever puppies in an 800s...

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Holly Cummins ([email protected])@holly_cummins13 Oct 2022
“When you design a multi-threaded application, you think it will work this way [tidy puppies]. … but it will actually work this way [colliding puppies]. Do you really want that situation with a million puppies?” Yes, @mariofusco, I do want a million 🐶 🐾 🐕 🐕‍🦺 😍#Devoxx
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Fun #Devoxx talk “Java Collections Puzzlers”with @mauricenaftalin and @JosePaumard. I just watched the replay, which is already posted. Good stuff! youtu.be/w6hhjg_gt_M
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It’s Fall! Roasted butternut squash and red onions with tahini sauce and zataar. seriouseats.com/roasted-butt…
the finished squash & onion served on a plate, drizzled with tahini/lemon/garlic sauce, sprinkled with zataar, and garnished with parsley

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It’s October! Which of these does not belong?
frozen pumpkin waffles, pumpkin spice baton cookies, pumpkin muffin mix, pumpkin madeleines, pumpkin spice ice cream, pumpkin non-dairy creamer, pumpkin ginger ice cream cones, chiles de árbol “orange sauce”

ALT frozen pumpkin waffles, pumpkin spice baton cookies, pumpkin muffin mix, pumpkin madeleines, pumpkin spice ice cream, pumpkin non-dairy creamer, pumpkin ginger ice cream cones, chiles de árbol “orange sauce”

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