Tux Machines

Programming Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2023

Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppInt64 0.0.4 on CRAN: Minor Bugfix

The new-ish package RcppInt64 (announced earlier this fall in this post, with two small updates following) arrived on CRAN minutes ago as relase 0.0.4. RcppInt64 in R and C++, and regroups them in a single package. It offers two interfaces: both a more standard as<>() converter from R values along with its companions wrap() to return to R, as well as more dedicated functions ‘from’ and ‘to’.

Git

Pete Zaitcev: git cp orig copy

Problem: I want to copy a file in git and preserve its history.

Solution: Holy guacamole!:

git checkout -b dup git mv orig copy git commit --author="Greg " -m "cp orig copy" git checkout HEAD~ orig git commit --author="Greg " -m "restore orig" git checkout - git merge --no-ff dup

Java

Computing UK ☛ Life after Oracle: Redefining Java in the enterprise in 2024

I have been working with Java for more than 25 years and witnessed first-hand its dramatic expansion to now dominate enterprise infrastructure environments.

The Server Side ☛ A primer on Java 21 virtual threads with examples

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure report.