So X-session security isn't an issue, then.

I have no faith in sandboxing protecting me from that anyway. I mean, why would I? I don't have a different keyboard and screen for each app.

Wayland is just a waste of time. It's the dev's own time and as long as they don't want to force me to waste my time too they're welcome to do whatever the fuck they like instead of something useful.

As soon as I see "freedesktop.org" I know it's going to be shit.

Sorry. The Internet is a very hard medium for sarcasm and irony.

Remote access is not a minor thing. It's a must-have.

I wish these funded FOSS teams would spend less time replicating the flaws in Windows and get on with producing better stuff.

It doesn't fix any problem I care about - yeah, yeah, security of X-sessions like that matters to anyone - and doesn't reproduce the one really big important feature of X11, which is remote access. Which I do care about.

Wayland is a toy project for its dev team. They're having fun working on it, sure, and it's useful in a limited number of scenarios. But it's their toy, not mine. It's certainly not good enough to replace X11.

Have you always been this dumb or is this a recent thing?

The people who own the studios. In fact, the shareholders don't even do a day's work and want "dividends".

Paid once for eternity or not at all? Big fucking difference.

Has Google announced the shutter date for this project yet?

Say that gravity isn't a "quantum effect" in reality. What's the problem that then needs fixed in QM?

I sometimes wonder if the issue is that our maths uses real numbers (or imaginary numbers interpreted as two real numbers). Maybe the universe is rational after all and you just can't have arbitrarily small chances in your waveforms.

This is the EU Commission, so it has nothing to do with democracy. It is, in fact, almost exactly the opposite.

You might be thinking of The European Parliament, which is a democratically elected and almost powerless talking shop used as a smokescreen by the Commission to pretend that the EU gives a shit about what you think.

Christ - "wisdom of the ancients" shit is it now?

The fact that there are more people living in Phoenix now than probably lived there in total before 1920 might have a lot more to do with it than the bollocks you posted.

Incredible news: 4.5 million people drink more water than 10000!

"cultural expertise"? Fuck's sake.

It just shifts them to someone else who then charges you more because they want to make a profit.

Azure it vastly more expensive than running a data centre. We move all our customers onto it a few years back because they were hammering on the door demanding to know when they would get a cloud-based service. Now they're paying at least three times (in some cases 6 times) what we charged them back then and our headcount has actually gone up to cope with the problems caused by everything being on the cloud which - shock news! - doesn't always work.

The one thing they get from Azure is disaster recovery in a distant data centre from the one holding their day-to-day systems. Except it's shit and it only works about 50% of the times we've tested it. Now MS have said they can upgrade the system (i.e., make it work) for an additional charge on top of the one we've been paying for years.

It's an absolute joke. Upgrading the datacentre would have been better for us and better for the customers, but they were taken in by the cloud hype and now they are literally paying for it but none of the CTOs can face telling their bosses that they've fucked up. Because the datacentre hasn't been invested in it is now obsolete and moving back would be hellish now anyway, so they and we are trapped.

I think most Python is written by amateurs who don't have to maintain it. In certain situations the language's terrible design choices have minimal impact. But it is unsuited to real world work where code might be expected to run for decades without having to worry that the idiots upstream have decided to break backwards compatibility more or less on a whim and without even bothering with correct version numbering. More broadly, formatting that resembles what used to be done on punched-cards is not acceptable anymore.

I'm going to go with "no" there, because there is no ambiguity with a brace or semi-colon; whitespace is not so binary. It's just a fact of life that there are different types of whitespace and invisible characters which do in fact turn up in real files. The bottom line is that Python is broken and depends on the editor to fix it.

Sure it is.

You've never had to do any programming as a job, have you?

In the real world, code had to be edited under uncertain circumstances quite often, and usually when doing so time is an issue. Having code fail to work because the editor at the end of three ssh hops isn't set up for whatever magic invisible formatting the fucking retarded language insists on is not acceptable.

Why is this such a sticking point?

Braces cost nothing, do they? They make the parser easier to write. And there's no issues with printed code that has used a proportional font.

So, why not just fix it? Why is it such a problem for the language team to just make the text clearer?

Could it just be ego?