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		loglog 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem While the `Optional` API is generally pretty inconvenient (compared e.g. to Kotlin), it does offer the more precise `ifPresent`.

vbezhenar 11 days ago [–]

Java lambdas are terrible so I usually avoid them. There's no reason to invent new methods, when language already has corresponding statements.

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