I thought Wayland was supposed to solve all the problems so nobody would have to touch that icky, unmaintainable X11 code any more. I had it on good authority (the same people everyone is trusting to develop an alternative to X11) that nobody could reasonably keep X11 working.
I do not know the technical reasons why the X Window system has largely been stagnant. I would guess that updating the X Window system these days would be like updating COBOL. Sure it can be done but there are few experts that are around anymore to understand the nuances of it.
With that said, IME the people who use DEI as a bad word are not serious people, so I expect XLibre to go nowhere.
Politics aside, I would say it is really old code that someone needs to dissect and understand. Maybe people talented enough just did not know that it was in need of major work.
I thought Wayland was the way of the future and X is in the dustbin now? What happened?
X is still in the dustbin because the last stable release of X was X11R7 on June 6, 2012. The alternatives like XFree86 had a final release on December 15, 2008. The X.Org server has more recent patches; however, the last meaningful main update was 21.1 in October 2021./p>
I've been using Kotlin recently and quite like it. Dunno why Apple doesn't just adapt it instead of making yet another language.
Other than the linear flow of time? Swift was first developed by Apple starting in 2010 internally before a general release in 2014. Kotlin was first developed in 2010 with the 1.0 release in 2016 before Google adopted it in 2019. While the Reality Distortion Field is powerful, it does not allow Apple to go back in time and change things knowing future events. It is the same answer why Apple didn't adopt USB-C connectors instead of Lightning connectors.
So JPL told us in 2023 that JWST had discovered an exoplanet. No "confirm".
Dude, can you read? The actual quote:
A team led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has confirmed the discovery of an exoplanet — a planet orbiting another star — by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Formally logged as LHS 475b . .
Not sure why you decided to shorten the sentence. JWST confirmed the discovery made previously. It is in YOUR OWN quote but you said "No 'confirm.' YOUR OWN article says LHS 475b was discovered by "NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which could only hint at the planet’s existence because of the limitations of its cameras and the small signal from the planet." Again this is in YOUR OWN article.
No "New".
So you are confirming you cannot bother to read the summary or the article. From the summary and article:
TWA 7b WAS DISCOVERED in the debris rings that surround the low-mass star CE Antilae, also known as TWA 7, located around 111
The science reporting is WRONG here.
Doubling down because "discovery" and "confirmation" do not mean different things to you? In your article, LHS 475b was confirmed by JWST. From your own article:
The researchers focused on the rocky world after carefully reviewing targets of interest from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which could only hint at the planet’s existence because of the limitations of its cameras and the small signal from the planet. Webb’s Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), however, clearly confirmed the planet after two observations last summer of it transiting, or passing in front of its star.
This article is an exoplanet being "discovered" by JWST as it was not previously known.
You're obsessed with the length of Mike Lynch's mast.
And you still have not answered the basic question: What use is "upwind performance" for a boat's owner if the owner CANNOT sail his own boat? It would be useless. The length matters because anything over 24m requires a professional captain certification to sail. You would know that if you knew anything about boats. Facts matter.
Give it up.
Why should I do what you want? The fact that I don't do what you tell me must burn you up.
It was average, and he just bought it off some other dude anyway.
Everyone else: When it was built it was the world's largest mast.
You: "It was average."
Facts don't seem to matter to you. Again.
What vaccinations do you think make people healthy?
I think you missed the part where being dead is unhealthy. I think I can say at least 9 out of 10 doctors would agree with dead == unhealthy. Just spitballing.
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