Why not? We're already in union with the US, which also invades other countries when it feels like it, and nobody sees that as a problem. If anything, we should get along better with Russia because we share frontiers.
The US does not want to conquer Europe. That's evidenced by the fact that they basically conquere and re-conquered (from the Germans) France, Italy and most of Germany in 1944-45, and then left, leaving those countries be. In the same time, Russia re-conquered Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, East Germany - and never left. They were happy occuping those areas.
Then left? Well, considering the US has like 40 military bases in Germany, like almost 50.000 stationed personnel there, and there are still some restrictions on what Germany can or cannot do, I won't say they left. Heck, they can also bug the chancellor's phone for decades or blow up their energy infrastructure and nothing happens when it comes to light.
I'm sure Russia would be more than satisfied if they could have kept all of that in their former satellite states including Ukraine.
Left in the sense that Germans were allowed to govern themselves. Whereas countries reconquered by Russia were ruled by local cronies whose loyalty was to Moscow as much as to their home country. And, if those guys tried getting some independent ideas, Russian tanks rolled in to remove them from power (Budapest 1956, Prague 1968).
That's true, however we don't know what would happen if the German people elected somebody contrary to the interests of the US. To this date, no German government has implemented any "independent ideas" that bothered the US. When they tried, like with the NS2, they were warned of the consequences, and ultimately agreed to comply.
Germany or France didn't go to the Iraq war as a part of the "coalition of the willing", and said would vote against it in the UN. If Poland tried doing that to the USSR, there'd be a huge risk of Russian tanks in Warsaw and a government change. In fact, almost all major decisions Polish authorities made had to factor in the risk of Russian backlash and invasion. For example, they decided to institute martial law in 1981 and squash Solidarity, because they the alternative (Solidarity squashed by Russian tanks) would be much more bloody.
You’re getting there! If we were independent from the US right now, we would not be calling for a union right after they invaded a country on our doorsteps.
I'm using Linux right now, and sadly I only have access to an 80x30 black and white terminal. I'm writing this comment as a raw HTTP request to this site. Send help. I just need colour and at least 1024x968... please help! I wish I could watch videos!
I think the usage of listen/notify is just a mechanism to save you from querying the database every X seconds looking for new tasks (polling). That has some drawbacks, because if the timeout is too small, you are making too much queries that usually may not return any new tasks, and if it's too big, then you may start processing the task long after it was submitted.
This way, it just notifies you that new tasks are ready so you can query the database.
> Hmm, I thought that JavaFX is effectively dead, after it was removed from JDK
I remember reading that they were removing it from the JDK so it wasn't tied to Java release schedules, enabling them to have more frequent updates. Don't know how it worked though, but where I live I know, by reading job offers, that at least a couple of companies use it.
What for? To start a war between nuclear powers just because of sabotage? Furthermore, we the members of NATO sometimes sabotage other members, like when some pipes of the Nord Stream pipeline were destroyed two years ago. So...
Suppose ot were true, how would you turn the evidence into profit? Sell it to western media? Let the wrong person know and they'll tip off western intelligence and then your car will drive you into a tree. Sell it to Russia? Maybe they would pay, but would you like life in Russia? Once you're there, maybe they don't pay after all. Or maybe you sell it to Russia, stay in the west, and spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder.
The proof, if any exists, is worse than worthless.
You mean we don't know who managed to blow up the pipeline that some NATO members threatened to blow up several times? Yes, we only have this official investigation from two ""independent"" countries that wouldn't hesitate to point their finger at Russia if they had any evidence, no matter how weak, yet they closed it "without identifying perpetrators". You're right, no clue!
You can argue that if it was Russia, western countries might want to ignore it, because otherwise they'd have to do something.
Much easier to respond by supporting Ukraine.
For a NATO ally to do it would be extremely risky -- what if the others hadn't kept quiet?
(You can't always predict what your allies will do)
It's worth a lot less in a hypothetical scenario where everyone's decided its in their best interests to forget all about it, which may be similar to the scenario we're currently in.
In politics, the truth isn't usually worth very much, and is second fiddle to the ends.
If that's the case, then we should ask ourselves why something that was disclosed three years ago, about an incident that happened in 2014, began to be aggressively disseminated only now.
CharSequence is the base class that things like java.lang.String inherit. So I understood that as an instance method you can call like "foo".isNullOrBlank() (in Kotlin syntax)
I don't get how Wayland's performance and responsiveness is worse than X11's (at least according to this guy). Because X11 followed a client-server model with tons of layers added on top to make modern things work, and Wayland was going to get rid of that with a cleaner design, etc., yet it's slower?
> I don't get how Wayland's performance and responsiveness is worse than X11's
I don't get it either. But not because "software structure X11 is better than Y" reasons. X11 and Wayland are far too complex for that reasoning to work well. For example, X11 round trip latencies are a PITA over a high latency WAN, but nonetheless NoMachine worked around that structural problem without changing X11.
I don't get it because when I ran Wayland instead of X11, one thing that immediately stood out was how much faster Wayland was. As in it was less than 1/2 the time go from login screen to full set up desktop on Debian 11 using Gnome / GDM3. I showed it to friends and they switched to Wayland based on that one speed difference demo. It really was that dramatic.
When an article deviates that much from my personal experience I start questioning all it's claims. It doesn't help that the article is a long list of assertions without any data. Nor does he explain how to reproduce what he's asserting.
It sounds harsh, but it reads like an opinion piece to me. I don't know how else you could interpret: "Panel icon drag & drop:: Wayland - Quirky, X11 - Normal" as anything but a statement on personal preference.
Wayland is also a "client-server" model. If you use DRI3, X11 and Wayland even do the exact same thing "under the hood". Only the sub msec negotiation phase is slightly more complicated on X11. We are talking about very cold code paths here.
Wayland not only has forced vertical sync it also requires every application to be double buffered. This can be detrimental for some performance metrics. That is why Wayland has worse performance despite being "simpler".
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