Misc Learnings

Directly on Windows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqc_54fbsPU 1) check if wsl is installed "wsl --status" 2) if not install it "wsl --install -d Ubuntu-22.04" Once install completes it takes you to the distro Make sure you do not forget your pasword type "exit" to come back to windows to see which wsl environment you have installed type this wsl --list -v Enter Distro wsl - d Ubuntu-24.04 right now once can run calc.exe and other files from windows , lets limit it by editing below now shutdown WSL and start windows volumes are mounted by defaults First manually unmount next we modify the wsl.conf file to disable auto mount now check if anything else is mounted , you dont see anything Using VirtualBox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8sBdV4kwU8 Ubuntu setup  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVjgI57Ino  

  OpenClaw runs more smoothly on windows https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install Install by wsl --install Docs :  http://docs.openclaw.ai/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5sLSFjVj4 Lambdas in java can only be used with certain types of interfaces instead of passing in an implementation of class , pass it just implementation it doesn't need  method name , return type etc. ( just needs param and body )  for below or can simplify further like below can be used as  Lambda gives you ability to store method implementation into variables and passed into methods as parameters can add 1 or 2 parameter It can also return values

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKVzRbsMnTQ All Optional is a container , that either has something in it or it doesn't example : if you query something by name in DB it may or may not return something think of it as a box with a label. if cat found in DB , then it fills Optional with that data if cat not found in DB then it it puts a null in optional to return Empty "Optional" if you know for sure that thing you will put inside Optional is never null use OF instead , if null goes in below code exception is thrown The way you return is above Although end result is similar to first , but when user sees Optional it knows that it can expect it to be blank. There is also orElseGet( ) : use a lambda to create unknown cat orElseThrow( ) : if optional is empty throw "noSuchElementException" ( similar to get( ) )  Get Age or else return 0 NOTE Optional is only meant to be used as a return type and nothing else do not overuse it