"Generally yes (or GLFW, or SDL), but the Wayland project shouldn't delegate the job to burned out hobbyists (who will think twice before wasting their time with bad APIs)."

Who do you think work on the various parts in Wayland if not "burned out hobbyists"?

It is impossible to know how may Iranians want the IRGC gone. But bombing schools (and bombings in general) will definitely increase the support for it.

Or the US could just stop bombing Iran? Then there would be no reason for Iran to attack American cities.

Yeah, that would be nice. I'm worried this will continue to escalate.

You and 97% of the globe.

"Energy doesn't appear immaculately from the heavens."

It actually does. There is a big fusion reactor up there that gives us a lot of direct energy, if you don't live near the poles it is enough for everything.

If you are expressing your judgement based on experiences from more than 10 years ago you are not really contributing to the discussion.

Admittedly, it was a while ago. But from what I've heard from friends who've been recently, it's no better, possibly worse.

Linus T explicitly licensed Linux under a license that allows anyone to run it but requires people who modify modifications to share those modifications.

> but requires people who modify modifications to share those modifications.

Not exactly. You can modify Linux and run it yourself all you want without obligation to share your changes. The sharing requirements are more limited and involve distribution.

Correct! This is the exact reason anyone who wants to use the os itself as a moat uses FreeBSD as a base instead, and add proprietary modifications to it. FreeBSD also being a open source gift, that does not have those requirements that Linux does.

Prominent examples include Sony PlayStation, and Apple OSX.

If you build good infrastructure you reap the rewards.

A lot of things are much more efficient in China as well. Compare the cost in time and money for travel between Beijing to Shanghai vs New York to Chicago for example.

"People in their 20's will see peak world population in their lifetime. It will be fascinating to see how society changes over the decades that follow that."

I am 45. I have fairly big* chance of making the global population curve actually drop!

*OK, not really, but you get the point I hope....

No, they don't. That's the UN prediction, because they assume that somehow, magically, all countries below replacement will simultaneously, near-instantly increase in fertility rate by huge amounts over the next couple of years. Look at the graphs, they're nonsensical.

If you look at the actual trends of those rates, peak population is ~2050, maybe sooner.

> near-instantly increase in fertility rate by huge amounts over the next couple of years

Nothing like this on Wikipedia. Do you have a better link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population_projections

That's the population project, not the fertility projection - which means it will appear smooth. However, I can no longer find the original data I was looking at, so I can't back myself up either.

What are the kids waiting for? Why are their parents there?