mahkoh

>Fun fact: THIS IS STILL THE CASE! The spec advertises a "restore_token" string prop on SelectSources and Start, where no app does this and uses "restore_data" in "options".

Wrong. xdg-desktop-portal has a client API and a compositor API. In the client API the property is called restore_token [1]. In the compositor API the property is called restore_data [2]. Clients do not talk directly to the compositor, they talk to the xdg-desktop-portal application which then talks to the compositor. It is not surprising the the properties would not be called the same.

In the documentation the APIs for app developers and desktop developers are clearly separated on the left hand side [3]. Not only does this have nothing to do with DBus (it would apply to every API where a middleware is used to translate messages), it also shows that the author did not do his due dilligence.

[1]: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.fr...

[2]: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.fr...

[3]: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/

Comment · 10 months ago

VESA makes you pay $5000 to get legal access to the DisplayPort standard. That is not the issue here.

Comment · 1 year ago

a can be a vector of booleans.

Comment · 1 year ago

The author frames his post to be about education:

    please correct them for me. The misinformation has been around for 20 years

But his education will fail as soon as you're operating on more than scalars. It might in fact do more harm than good since it leads the uneducated to believe that mix is not the right tool to choose between two values.

Comment · 1 year ago

    So, if you ever see somebody proposing this

    float a = mix( b, c, step( y, x ) );

The author seems unaware of

    float a = mix( b, c, y > x );

which encodes the desired behavior and also works for vectors:

    The variants of mix where a is genBType select which vector each returned component comes from. For a component of a that is false, the corresponding component of x is returned. For a component of a that is true, the corresponding component of y is returned.

Comment · 1 year ago

That assumes that Apple's shareholders believe that Apple's privacy reputation (relative to other companies) is more valuable than access to the UK market.

All evidence that I have seen suggests that consumers by and large do not care about this kind of privacy. They do not buy iPhones instead of other phones due to the privacy properties.

Therefore Apple's shareholders could order Apple to stay in the UK market.

And if not, then Apple's customers could be compensated with money and other UK-held assets that the government could confiscate.

Comment · 1 year ago

The problem with asciidoc is that it doesn't support nesting. Markdown allows you to nest constructs as much as you want using syntax that are easy to use for both humans and documentation-generating applications.

The asciidoc developers don't seem to consider this an important issue: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/1121

While asciidoc has some nice constructs, this made it a no go the last time I was looking for a documentation language.

Comment · 1 year ago

>Another one is I could not find a benchmark with io_uring - this would confirm the benefit of going from epoll.

One of the advantages of io_uring, unrelated to performance, is that it supports non-blocking operations on blocking file descriptors.

Using io_uring is the only method I recall to bypass https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/296. This issue deals with having to operate on untrusted file descriptors where the blocking/non-blocking state of the file descriptions might be manipulated by an adversary at any time.

Comment · 2 years ago

C-f thread

0/0

We shouldn't hope for the impossible.