New features have arrived in the latest Minecraft Java Snapshot and Bedrock Beta & Preview including one that players have wanted for years: you can finally sit. The new cushions can be crafted or found while exploring. You can use them as actual seats or as decorations in your builds. >The update also adds straw beds, which let you sleep through the night without changing your spawn point. >Abandoned camps have also been updated and now include cushions and straw beds These features are available now in the latest Java Snapshot and Bedrock Beta & Preview for testing before they release in a future update.

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Java developers do not need to abandon their stack to build on Cardano. @satran004 explains how in @JAVAPROmagazin, using the example of BloxBean, the open-source Java toolchain maintained by the Cardano Foundation and the community. Read the full article:

Data skew is not always about row counts. Snowpark lets engineers run Python, Java or Scala UDFs natively on Snowflake's query engine. At scale, two workers can process the same number of rows while one does far more compute. DySkew detects that at runtime and redistributes dynamically. No tuning required on your end. Result: ~30% lower P99 UDxF execution time in production, P90 down 27% on large warehouses. How we built it: