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541.
by cies 2y ago
because they not my enemy. they dont threaten me. imho NATO threatens them by trying to extend into ukraine/georgia and making color revolutions on their borders.
542.
by cies 2y ago
Yes, it just sits in a Wayland "container". So we can have security/fractionalScaling/modernMultiMonitor by default and X.oldness when required for that last bit of stubborn software.
543.
by cies 2y ago
IntelliJ IDEs. They are working on it though: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-3206/Native-Wayland... https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/wakefield/Known+problems+an...
544.
by cies 2y ago
> Tons of X11 infra will have to remain As XWayland. XWayland will be the new X.
545.
by cies 2y ago
Relevant to the people living in it. Not relevant to the ideals set forth, which our moderns free democracies are based on. This is fundamental, so it's actually worse than when it happens in China.
546.
by cies 2y ago
After rt.com et al were blocked in the EU they also kept working for a few more week/months before I had to use a mirror/VPN to read the new paper of "the enemy". Side note: I though being able to read the news of the en
547.
by cies 2y ago
Dunno if Russia is more corrupt than the US. AIPAC's lobbyism is straight-up corruption to me: they pay millions per year to politicians: how to call this if not corruption? Highly anti-democratic (money buys policy). And that's j
548.
by cies 2y ago
Seems to be down, any mirrors? https://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/... -> 404
549.
by cies 2y ago
Bucha is contested. If is was a Ukrainian Gaza it would have looks VERY different. A Ukrainian Gaza would be bombing densely populated city centers: never happened. Only the Ukranians somtimes seem to be launching some mortars at trainstati
550.
by cies 2y ago
Not really obliterating. Gaza is being obliterated (civ casualties through the roof). The Ukraine conflict has very little civ death compared to the mil deaths. Compare that to the wars the US fought and you see the Russians are very carefu
551.
by cies 2y ago
They may also finally look into all the people that died surrounding the Clintons? Fucking wild west if you ask me (which according to historians was a pretty peaceful place unlike how it's portrayed in popular culture).
552.
by cies 2y ago
Not at all. Hardcore against eugenics. Just in favour of people knowing what goes on inside their body (transparency) and against the narrative "its better for you not to know".
553.
by cies 2y ago
If people die before reproducing because they cannot weigh risks, that should result in a population that is better at weighing risk in the long run.
554.
by cies 2y ago
Booze taxes, legal drinking ages, school curriculum -- there are many things that influence the booziness that can differ wildly per state. Not saying you are not right.
555.
by cies 2y ago
Am I the only one totally not surprised by this?
556.
by cies 2y ago
which DE? my issues were on KDE. i had also that the windows on a just unplugged monitor are not moved to a still active monitor. this used to work on Wayland.
557.
by cies 2y ago
I've come to prefer languages that score very low on this metric of "paint splats OCRed yield valid $PROG_LANG programs". A lot of fun I had with a language called Elm, in which runtime errors are nearly impossible to express
558.
by cies 2y ago
I thought Mac had it better than Linux. But after reading this... Anyway, I'm hopeful the situation for Linux will improve over the coming years with Wayland more-and-more becoming the default (so more people use it, and more will put
559.
by cies 2y ago
> 2. ORMs do not hide SQL nastiness. This is certainly true: the do not hide nastiness, they simply make dealing with the db more (much more) nasty. I mean: ORMs are now well known to "make the easy queries slightly more easy, while
560.
by cies 2y ago
I think pulisse meant "compared to SQL queries written by proxy (e.g. jooq, linq, ORMs, etc.) I'm not sure it's true.
561.
by cies 3y ago
> If what they ultimately want is their own walled garden, then wouldn't opening things up be the opposite of what they should do? The are only opening things up in their marketing speak. There is not actual opening up happening. &q
562.
by cies 3y ago
> by today's standards. Which? Whatsapp call sound shit. Mobile phone calls sound shit. I did Mumble to get some acceptable quality.
563.
by cies 3y ago
Maybe i dont live near you.
564.
by cies 3y ago
> They intentionally dropped frequencies from the audio signal so that they wouldn't have to carry the data contained at those frequencies. This is why nobody ever sounded like themselves over the phone. I remember switching from ea
565.
by cies 3y ago
Cool project anyone reading this may be interested in: https://github.com/Johni0702/mumble-web I've never used it but it should make having a p2p conversation through Mumble as easy as pointing your browser to som
566.
by cies 3y ago
This is REALLY important software nowadays imho. I'm old enough to have spoken to people on analogue land lines: the sound was crisp, you could hear small background noises, you could hear someone breathe. Nowadays we usually speak to
567.
by cies 3y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks.
568.
by cies 3y ago
> evolution doesn’t ‘invent’ anything Really? I think it kind of does invent. Trial and error. Back propagation. Mutation. Some randomness at conception. Sure it's a personification, but not a bad one.
569.
by cies 3y ago
> in humans Nails are a much older "invention of evolution" than humans: so we have to investigate there... > how do nails and hairs manage to grow only in one direction Like all things evolution: nails that grow backwards t
570.
by cies 3y ago
Kotlin is amazing on the backend. Lot's of successful startups do it. Larger shops are adopting it. SpringBoot is (albeit not as big as Google) also fully on the Kotlin bandwagon. Ktor is there for the purists.

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