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> The only copy/paste behavioral difference I've noticed on Wayland is that I lose the copied data if I close the source program.

This is because sway by default does not provide a "clipboard manager" component. It has been the case for a long time that the clipboard is only actually populated when you paste, copying merely stores a reference. This is so you can copy/paste multi gigabyte files without running out of memory. A clipboard manager component solves this issue by intelligently saving your clipboard as applications come and go.

> people started using MongoDB wide-eyed, optimistically and with more enthusiasm than engineering skill and of course, there were harsh reality checks

It should be noted that VCs also burnt a lot of marketing money to deliberately create that blind enthusiasm and optimism.

This is said so often it's become a platitude, but: Your free labor of creating and curating things people want to look at is the product. It's the companies bidding on access to content you're willing to look at, in hopes of changing your behaviour, that are the consumers.

The problem is that mesa's "Clover" OpenCL driver currently only supports OpenCL 1.1 and does not support OpenCL images and was abandoned for years. This makes it more or less useless. Additionally, these code paths are not very well tested or optimized.

This has been in the works recently though, I've seen PRs for OpenCL 3.0 and OpenCL Image, not sure if they're in yet. With both Redhat and Microsoft being interested in working on this area now, I expect to see improvements soon.

Wow, this comment is truly incredible, although perhaps not in the way you intended.

The most indisputable proof to me of our nonprofit and charity systems being complete bullshit has always been the fact that IKEA is a nonprofit "to promote better interior design".

This reads like an apple user parody.

I think the fact that you read that message and this was your conclusion is kind of concerning.

Either way getting a restraining order or whatever on someone you work with is definitely not going to improve your situation, if you can even prove it in the first place.

I totally agree with your concerns about people being kept in their job for unjustified reasons. I think it's something we've all had experience with.

At my first job, I had a horrible boss. A friend tried to speak up against him and was promptly fired. Turns out he was a relative of the CEO and was thus unfireable.

Just a few weeks ago I also spoke to someone who told his experience of reporting someone for sexual harassment at a major tech company, just to learn that they were well aware of it but refused to do anything because of good performance.

We should absolutely consider the role uninions can play regarding unfirable employees. Being able to push the company to get rid of them can have a huge impact on the well-being of workers.

You should take everything Pavel Durov says with an extreme amount of salt. To say his statements are misleading is often an understatement.

Nautilus does already have such a cache though. But there is little to no code sharing between nautilus and the gtk file picker, which I think is the actual problem here.

Having insufficient means to repel people didn't seem to be an issue this summer.

That's a good point, the ideal strategy might be to do little to stop the events and then later start public high impact investigations and arrests for a few of the involved.

I like your extremely selective responses, just responding to a strawmanned half sentence.

Of course, it's only ever authoritarianism when the others do it.

Interestingly, the George Floyd protests actually caused an order of magnitude more deaths by police than the months of protests in Hong Kong. That isn't the whole picture of course, but it is enlightening how only one of these events is regularly described as authorization. Always the exception.

I'm sorry, where were you when the authoritarian shift from the "war on terror" and "war on drugs", spearheaded by the american right, balooned police budgets and was used to justify massively arming the police and giving them the right to stop and detain nearly anyone?

If you don't agree with that, I guess there's still the fact that the US left has vocally called for a major dismantling of the police and removal of many of their protections this summer. If you don't believe the scales were tipped long ago, that should definitely have done it.

How homogeneous of a group they are is irrelevant when they are all driven by the same incentives. The first people that benefit from increases in Authoritarianism are the police. The insurrectionists they are supposed to persecute are the very ones fighting the people that are calling for limiting the influence of the police. Police unions almost universally support Trump. They have everything to gain and little to lose from this.

That is, assuming anyone in law enforcement actually cares about identifying these people. Given that they could have simply not let them out and arrested them as was done with black protestors instead of politely showing them the door, that seems a bit unlikely.

Indeed, that is why they protected their identities, covered their faces and were arrested on spurious charges by the ten thousands and key figures mysteriously ended up in burnt up cars half a year later.

We'll see about that in a few years when some of the contracts start to expire and the company becomes more integrated.

Alyssa Rosenzweig specializes in writing GPU compilers/drivers. Other people, like marcan, specialize on the low level hardware and firmware stuff required to get the SoC to boot, including the display controller. The DC and GPU are almost entirely unrelated. She's working ahead here so that GPU acceleration, which is predicted to be the single hardest feature to enable, can be developed more quickly once the easy part of booting linux is done.

I'm confused, is losing your job for disagreement on social issues good or bad now? Or do these concerns about the people and factors that decide who does and doesn't get to work somewhere mysteriously stop and start at unions.

It probably comes the people that would prefer you shut up and stay.

Unlike corporations like Google, who would never fire (sorry, "quit voluntarily") someone for criticizing the stance of the company on social issues.

That depends on a number of things. Theoretically the leverage is infinite, as companies can not get anything done without workers. However in practice, strike funds won't last forever, people won't be willing to strike forever, it's in your interest to keep a relatively good relationship with the company, etc.

Of course, there is a difference, in that there's a strong financial interest in painting all unions as the loan shark type.

If you look at market data, you can see that this market did not exist a few years ago and is now estimated to be worth billions, with major players releasing products in the space. Unless the dynamics pushing this forward change overnight, I think it's pretty safe to call it a trend.

A large reason for the deal with Altera was that Altera already used intel for fabrication. I understand Intel's 10nm and 7nm failure has hurt them a lot in that regard, quite the opposite of the expected synergy. Unlike Xilinx for AMD, they didn't really have any other technologies intel needed either, the biggest advantage was fabrication and that fell through.

I think it's more a reaction to the decreasing importance of CPUs in the datacenter in favor of interconnect technology. FPGAs are one of the directions in which the "smart nic" or "DPU" tech has been moving, which is critical to the trend of datacenter disaggregation. Xilinx has a very strong offering in that regard.

"Disposable income per capita" is certainly a number, but it's not actually meaningful in this context for a few reasons:

1. "Disposable income per capita" is irrelevant to normal people, as it does not account for how equally that wealth is actually spread. If the top 1% double their income and the rest halves it, that's still a net increase in "disposable income".

2. "Disposable income" does not at all account for the varying amount of cost required to sustain a given standard of living in different regions, even within a country.

3. "Disposable income" is a purely economic measure. As such, it does not measure a large amount things that impact your quality of life, like time off, stress, job satisfaction, etc. A quick look at those non-economic measures will show those high economic measures don't come for free.

That's an understandable reaction if you just look at the raw USD value, but that's very far from the full picture. They are not pitiful when you start adding the costs for housing, healthcare, transportation and the rest of the things that you need to live. Compared to the huge wage increase, the increase in living standard is very minor (and in some regards worse, e.g. the amount of time you lose daily to the car centric infrastructure).

The number and quality of available jobs in the SV region was a much bigger factor to everyone I've spoken to that moved from the EU.