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If heat pumps don't work in the winter, how come Sweden has (as of 2022) 2.2 million heat pumps (209 per 1000 residents) and Finland 1.4 million (251 per 1000 residents)?

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J...

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J...

Ukraine's entire navy was sunk in the first 3 days of the war, and 4 years later Russian Black Sea fleet knows to stay in port as more than half of their ships have been sunk by Ukrainian missiles and drones.

This is not what actually happened; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431000

> The original roll out of Healthcare.gov is a counterpoint.

Well, that's not the worst that can happen - Oregon had the idea to let Silicon Valley company Oracle do the job...

In the aftermath of what was likely the most spectacular failure among state-run Affordable Care Act health exchange site launches, the state of Oregon has filed a lawsuit against Oracle America Inc. over the total failure of the Cover Oregon exchange.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/oregon-attorney-...

As a result of the ongoing problems, in April 2014, the board of directors voted to close the state-run exchange and adopt the Federal HealthCare.gov exchange beginning in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Oregon

Turns out Oregon even got some money out of Oracle in the end?

Gov. Kate Brown announced today the settlement of the six lawsuits the state and the company filed against one another after the failure of the Cover Oregon health exchange website.

The settlement, valued at $100 million, includes cash payments to Oregon as well as a six-year license agreement for products and services that Brown said can be used to "significantly modernize state government's IT systems."

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2016/09/post_183.html

So if systemd refuses to support musl, it's "hindering the spread and innovation in the Linux space", and when they change their mind and work to add support for musl, it's "to embrace and extinguish it".

My understanding is that the founder of X11Libre was removed from the X.Org project for demonstrated incompetence.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts

> for some reason announced in 2008 plans to expand to Georgia and Ukraine

This was a G. W. Bush idea, during his last year in office, and it was never going to actually happen.

At the dinner on Wednesday, the German and French position was supported by Italy, Hungary and the Benelux countries, a senior German official said. Mr. Bush was said to have accepted that his position was not going to prevail,

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/world/europe/03nato.html

> Was the EU and the USA friendly towards Russia ...

When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, did Angela Merkel stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, as very sensibly demanded by much of Eastern Europe? No, of course not - if we just trade more with Russia, they will be interested in peace! Germany deservedly lost billions finishing the construction, and it never transmitted a single ccm of gas.

> You know the result of that, but still consider there was no provocation at all

I think a better question to ask is, why do countries that border on Russia try so hard to become NATO members?

> what these people thought of us before Trump

Last I checked, Trump was elected in 2016.

In 2021 he tried an autogolpe and by the time this survey was done in 2024, he was not in prison for treason but instead again running for president as nominee of one of only two major parties. What sort of opinion should one have of such a country?

> allowed Sweden to join NATO

What sort of absurd argument is this? Now that Sweden changed their mind and want to enter treaty obligations to help defend e.g. the Baltics, we should refuse them?

Also, I can't begin to comprehend how Sweden would militarily defend Finland, who entered WW2 as an ally of Nazi Germany after being invaded by USSR, and simultaneously fight against Nazi Germany.

The real story behind Wayland and X, Linux.conf.au 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ

https://people.freedesktop.org/~daniels/lca2013-wayland-x11....

Since this is a Wayland thread, obviously the problem is a lack of a common implementation, which deviates from UNIX tradition.

For those who want to complain how lack of choice between multiple implementations is an obvious problem and deviates from UNIX tradition, please wait until the next systemd thread.

Examples of other operating systems allegedly not designed by professionals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Window_Manager

The Desktop Window Manager is a compositing window manager, meaning that each program has a buffer that it writes data to; DWM then composites each program's buffer into a final image.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040925095929/http://developer....

The Quartz Compositor layer of Mac OS X comprises the window server and the (private) system programming interfaces (SPI) implemented by the window server. In this layer are the facilities responsible for rudimentary screen displays, window compositing and management, event routing, and cursor management.

The window server is a single system-wide process that coordinates low-level windowing behavior and enforces a fundamental uniformity in what appears on the screen. It is a lightweight server in that it does not do any rendering itself, but instead communicates with the client graphics libraries layered on top of it. It is “agnostic” in terms of a drawing model.

The window server has few dependencies on other system services and libraries. It relies on the kernel environment’s I/O Kit (specifically, device drivers built with the I/O Kit) in order to communicate with the frame buffer, the input infrastructure, and input and output devices.

This article doesn't report the facts correctly; the search warrant was issued for posting an anti-semitic Nazi meme.

(Just for the record, I believe that a well-known politician should just have to live with being insulted.)

> The Bavaria resident is also accused of posting Nazi-era imagery and language earlier in 2024. According to prosecutors, this post may have violated German laws against the incitement of ethnic or religious hatred.

> The man was arrested on Thursday as part of nationwide police operations against suspected antisemitic hate speech online.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-...

This article is more informative:

Translated (with DeepL.com):

> The public prosecutor's office in Bamberg has now announced: The search had already been requested before the Green politician himself filed a criminal complaint in the case.

> Habeck only filed a criminal complaint in the case more than a month after the search warrant had been requested.

> According to the public prosecutor's office, the suspect is also facing another charge: According to this, in spring 2024, he allegedly uploaded a picture on X with a reference to the Nazi dictatorship, which could potentially constitute the criminal offense of incitement to hatred. According to the investigators, it shows an SS or SA man with the poster and the words “Germans don't buy from Jews” and the additional text “True democrats! We've had it all before!”.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/schwachkopf-belei...

(Note the date on the last article - 5 days later than the one you linked - likely the facts weren't known to the public before then)

There is nothing at all strange about the terminology. Go run ps on macOS and marvel at the "WindowServer" process. The generic architectural term is "display server".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing_system#Display_serve...

Thanks for adding a note, but I can't edit Wikipedia as I do not have an account. Let's hope it will be noticed.

> Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers, the software engineers then working for Red Hat who initially developed systemd

This is wrong, Kay Sievers was working for Novell/SuSE at that time, see https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html#faqs

> Open source and free software mean almost exactly the same set of software

> Nearly all open source software is free software; the two terms describe almost the same category of software.

I see no disagreement, how is GP "completely wrong"?

I don't understand your point, CentOS never had paying customers?

Oh, WeirdX, that's one I hadn't heard of.

The commercial ones (Xsun, Xsgi, Hummingbird, DESQView/X etc.) were all based on MIT code.

Every single X server you list is a fork of XFree86, and every X server I'm aware of is a fork of the original X11R1 (or later) release from MIT.

Please cite a single independent implementation of an X11 protocol server.

The most popular language with a formal specification is Standard ML.

I guess this is terminology confusion on behalf of Surac, who probably just wants a specification that is independent of the rustc implementation.

Twitter moderated the New York Post story based on their "hacked materials doxxing" policy, then executives immediately realized that the particular circumstances of this story weren't foreseen when the policy was written and within 24 hours changed the policy to allow posting the story.

And here we are 5 years later and people still bring it up.

A major difference is that Canonical projects have copyright assignment policies, while Red Hat projects don't - this probably explains a lot of the difference in adoption dynamics.

The thousands of peace-keeping troops in Armenia/Azerbaijan that looked the other way were not German, but Russian. By the way, both Russia and Armenia are members of the CSTO military alliance[1], while Azerbaijan is not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Org...

... and in typical fashion of Stalin, first he substantially created this policy, and then he completely reversed it in 1938, so that Russian became mandatory to teach in all schools and the local nationals in leadership positions were purged.

Perhaps you could try once more to actually read the article.

None of the BSDs provide the requisite long term ABI compatibility; or rather, the only long-term ABI compatibility offered by FreeBSD is its (incomplete) implementation of the stable Linux ABI.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linuxulator

https://wiki.freebsd.org/VendorInformation

Major releases are cut from the main development trunk every 24 month ... No compatibility for API and ABI is guaranteed from one to the next major release, though an effort is made to make the upgrade process and source code changes as untroubled as possible.

To expand a bit, Matteo Salivni is the leader of Lega (formerly Lega Nord), the other far-right party in Italy's government.

Salvini's ties to Russia of course go way beyond a couple Aeroflot tickets: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertonardelli/salvini...

> By the way, this all started because elites like Hillary openly showed contempt for working class folk with her “basket of diplorables” statements.

What Clinton actually said:

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/10/493427601/hillary-clintons-ba...

> "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

> "But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."

Why, isn't that exactly the opposite meaning of how you summarized it? She literally said that these disappointed working class people who support Trump are not deplorable!