Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

@tdp_org baffling, I have no idea why java.com only provides a 10 year old release.

Where as the oracle site gives you an upto date release:

https://www.oracle.com/uk/java/technologies/downloads/#jdk20-mac

Got to love Oracle and there approach to communities.

@tdp_org Java class file version of 52 corresponds to Java 8, which is ancient. Looks like you are trying to run code compiled for Java 11.

I doubt you actually downloaded Java 8, so it might be more of a $PATH problem.

Its also likely that your distro has a version of Java greater than 11 in its package manager too, I try that first.

@cloudguy@mastodon.terabyte-computing.com haha. Happens all too often. It seems our society values shouty people over anyone whom quietly uses them more often than not.

I grt frustrated by 'full stack' developers, turely a misnomer.

@cloudguy@mastodon.terabyte-computing.com nothing you said meant that could not be valid.

@mattwilcox When thinking about code I visually see it a bit more like an electric circuit.

With things and processes connected together and something flowing through.

I'm a big believer that lots of people work and function in different ways, and often we get the best out of people when we let them work the best way for them.

@mattwilcox I remember reading some books on Dyslexia which said most Dyslexics are visual thinkers over verbal thinkers.

I often find myself in situations where I get frustrated with other people as I have to wait for them to verbally reason through something, which was obvious to me based on how I visualised it in my head.

@mattwilcox I also find it very easy to visualise and manipulate physical objects in my mind, which is pretty handy for CAD modelling and designing electronics.

If I do have an internal monologue its often ruminating on something, often reliving it vividly. Sometimes its to practice what I might say.

As I type this most I don't have an internal monologue, more I'm reading back what I've written as a check. If I speak with someone, I don't have any internal monologue.

@mattwilcox I'd say I have little to no internal monologue.

I don't think in words, I think visually. Often if I cannot build a mental visualisation for a concept I can't understand it.

I find it hard to understand people who can only think with language.

I often find coding is merely typing what I've already designed visually in my mind. As such I hate pair programming because I can't articulate a process or why I'm doing things, but it'll come together in the end.