This is super addicting, love it!

Agree, Beatmaker seems cool!

You desperatly need some screenshots on your homepage.

Thanks.

We will add the screenshots.

I’ll bite. Why does this not work as you’d expect?

I'm comparing object references (pointers) not the value boxed by the object (what the pointer points to).

For performance reasons boxed Short objects are interned when they represent values in the range -127 to +128 so for 42 the pointers will point to the same interned object after 42 is autoboxed to a Short. Whereas 1042 is outside this interning range and the autoboxing creates two distinct objects with different pointers.

It's very simple but (a) non-obvious if you don't know about it and (b) rather wordy when I spell it out like this :)

In general in Java you want obj.equals(other) when dealing with objects and == only with primitives, but autoboxing/unboxing can cause confusion about which one is dealing with.

In other other words, the surprise ought to be that w == x is true, not that y == z is false!

thank you so much. this should be included in the original post.

In Switzerland we have the equivalent called "Generalabonnament" (GA), which is quite a common thing for people to have. It's steep in price, but often time it evens out pretty quickly if you travel by train often - I have my GA since my apprenticeship about ten years ago. I looooove it, just a bit sad that during Covid train travels weren't possible as much.

One time train tickets were hideously expensive last time I was in Switzerland so this makes total sense if you live in the area.

Thank you so much for rephrasing that terrible original motto, it always has bothered me as well.

Personal anecdota: it definitely seems like a huge part of the people in my city (Zurich) are working 80% (4-day week for 80% pay).

I prefer to listen to music podcasts as well.

My absolute favourite is KEXP's Music That Matters[1] of the KEXP Live In-Studio performance fame[2]. They have an amazing artist selection.

I love the soothing voices of Cheryl Waters, Kevin Cole and John Richards, the short background informations they provide about the bands and their upcoming releases and tour dates, and the music usually spans across multiple genres which broadens your listening horizont and appreciation of other styles which you might not usually listen to.

But most of it all, I truly enjoy discovering new music from them which almost always is spectacular.

[1]: http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/musicthatmatters [2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUh4W61bt_K6tflBpjWgn...

Sidenote: I also like that they prominently (actually, "equally" should be the more fitting word in a better world) feature female musicians/bands (which you sadly cannot say from most other music podcasts / radio shows... most of it features male voices/artists), even without ever mentioning "Ladies" or all-female or otherwise including the gender in their short artist announcements (as it should be).