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[–] [email protected] 113 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Alternatively, instead of reading a Phoronix article that has a couple of short snippets from a much longer blog post, you can read the original blog post yourself to see the full context.

Edit: Also, it is worth noting that the author of the original blog post had previously written another relatively recent post criticizing the way in which Wayland was developed, so it's not like they are refusing to see its problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No, if anything the way you can tell you are in a dream is because the top spins forever and never starts wobbling; the way he got his wife to eventually concede that she was in a dream was by setting the top in a perpetual spin so that she stumbled upon it still spinning.

The significance of the ending is not that he is still in a dream but that he is so content with the situation that he stops caring whether he is in a dream or not. (Actually, in fairness that is not quite true either; I've heard that basically the ending is more Nolan trolling the audience than anything of narrative significance.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, which is why I thought that the original ending to Return of the Jedi, which was just a local party with the Ewoks, was much better than the immediate galaxy wide celebration that Lucas insisted on adding in the re-release.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

With most series of this length, towards the end I've tended to wish that the author would just wrap things up already so I could find out the ending and move on with my life.

With this series I actually got sad as I made my way through the last book because it meant that the story was going to end soon and I had been enjoying it so much that I didn't want it to end. (Having said that, I also absolutely loved the ending, which is also unusual for me for a series that is this long!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think that much of the disparity is explained by the fact that the Apple case was decided by a judge but the Google case was decided by a jury, so the people making the decisions had very different perspectives.

Also, because the decisions were so different despite the similarities between them, Google probably actually has a pretty good case it can make in the appeals process, so I wouldn't consider this outcome to be the final word just yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am not really sold that going to all of this effort to implement a new communication mechanism is really a better plan than just going with WebSockets, even if WebSockets is not a perfect fit (which they very briefly cover in the article). However, if I am wrong then perhaps someone here could explain to me what I am missing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you are going to compare the United States to other political entities, I think that the better thing to compare it to is the European Union rather than other countries, because like the EU the US was formed from the union of sovereign member states and that is why it is designed the way that it is (for better or worse).

Given that, I have an honest question asked out of ignorance: Does the EU have more power over its member states than the United States does? (I am not super-familiar with it, so the answer may very well be yes.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, I came to this comment section hoping someone would explain what exactly the basis in law was for this.

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