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Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 1) 30

You've tried running screens with very different dpi then? If you have a window running at hidpi on the 4k and drag it over to the 1080p, what happens? Will the app get scaled automatically (hopefully the toolkit redraws instead of everything being blurry). My understanding is X11 cannot deal with that scenario at all, xrandr notwithstanding. But I've never tried it myself. Will have a 4K monitor to test with in the new year.

Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 3, Insightful) 30

How well does X.org do with a dual screen system where one is 4K and the other is 1080P? For folks running laptops this sort of scenario is increasingly common, and X11 just doesn't do it very well.

I'm contemplating buying a 4K monitor and my main concern was how well X11 and the various desktop environments do hidpi. Having switched to Wayland, though, and with Firefox natively on Wayland and supporting fractional scaling, it makes the purchase a bit more comfortable.

Comment Re: Physical addresses vs. mailing addresses (Score 2) 48

The USPS is also pretty crap about it. They regularly just don't bother to add new addresses to their databases for months or sometimes even years. At work we're having to use an alternate address for a multi story residence with dozens of units because of this. It's really quite irritating. Their address validation system is also shit. They will tell you for example that an address has an invalid secondary (unit number type, e.g. suite/apartment/whatever) but then won't tell you what the correct one is even though they have to know in order to tell you that the one you used is invalid. And this is when you PAY for validation! I don't know how much of this is due to DeJoy but it's shit.

Comment Re: The Point (Score 1) 89

"If Beijing wanted, they could just send the PLA to occupy Siberia, and Putin couldn't do a thing about it"

China is not stupid enough to tip their hand. They will continue preying on Russia by doing sleazy business with them (like selling them the tires that got their advance stuck in the mud) as long as they can first.

Comment Re:Was it a Russian drone? (Score 1) 139

Depends on what the person was doing at the time. If the person who didn't pull the trigger was holding up a liquor store and the police shot the wrong person, there's at least arguably mens rea, which is how we get things like the felony murder rule.

Not quite- that's how you get the proximate cause felony murder rule, of which only a couple of jurisdictions in the US, and none outside of the US in the Western world recognize due to its obvious injustice.

No, it's how you get mens rea for the felony murder rule. You didn't carry the gun with the intent to kill, only to intimidate, but you still had a guilty mind, and if you then used the gun to kill someone in the heat of the moment, there's your mens rea.

And remember that actual cause does not mean literally pulling the trigger. At least in the U.S., the courts apply a "but for" test. If the event would not have happened without the previous event, then the previous event is considered the actual, not proximate cause. The police would not have shot the other person but for the perpetrator pointing a gun at someone (and possibly shooting at the police).

IMO, that's not meaningfully different than involuntary manslaughter convictions for allowing unsafe working conditions at a construction site or leaving your loaded gun out where a child can take it, both of which have happened.

Comment Re:That seems way too long (Score 1) 55

The network hardware usually lasts longer than the servers unless you get unlucky. For example if you bought a Cisco Catalyst 5000 then you only had max 5 years before you probably got rid of it due to y2k issues. (The switches WOULD keep working after y2k, but logging of dates wouldn't work correctly.)

Comment Re:The Point (Score 1) 89

We don't like what Russia is doing in Ukraine, but also, Leftist governments in the West disapprove of Uganda's anti-LGBTQ policies. So they then get to sanction Uganda?

Yeah, that's how it works.

What we are observing is a neo-colonial trend by Western countries to force others to toe their line.

Sure. But is it wrong to refuse to do business with a regressive country? Should a nation be forced to do business with a nation whose goals run counter to their ideals?

If the West has such a problem w/ Russia, greenlight Ukraine to bomb Moscow: that alone should bring Russia to its knees

1) the US promised to protect Ukraine if they gave up nukes
2) Russia still has nukes

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