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Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 1) 46

I have no interest in a giant 4K monitor for my desk. But a 24" 4k monitor would look quite nice. I would want my font sizes to be the same as they are now, just sharper. I find sharper, higher resolution text easier to read as my eyes get older, than blurry text at the same size.

I was just thinking that although my eyes are getting older, I still can see the screen okay. Then I glanced up at the url bar in my browser and noticed I'm browsing the web at 150% zoom. Ha.

Comment Re:f**k around, find out (Score 1) 72

Is it true that sperm donors make money hand over fist?

I was paid $35 per donation, and was allowed to donate up to three times per week.

So, $105 / week or $5,460 / year.

That would be about $10k / year in 2025 dollars.

The clinic was a ten minute walk from my workplace, so I'd walk there and back on my MWF lunch breaks.

Comment Re:Unfair title (Score 4, Insightful) 72

It was the sperm bank that didn't do the necessary checks

Was the test available at the time? Did other sperm banks check for this mutation?

and the sperm bank that shared his genetic material 200 times.

Way more than that. It was 200 babies, not 200 attempts. The success rate of artificial insemination is about 20%, so that's 1000 squirts.

Comment Re:f**k around, find out (Score 5, Insightful) 72

I was a sperm donor back in the 1990s.

The donors aren't "random".

They are screened for general health, genetic defects, and academic achievement. I had to show my college transcripts, provide a blood sample, and have a medical examination.

TFA describes a screwup that only happened because a test for the condition wasn't available. But many other tests were done, so the odds were still better than an old-fashioned insemination.

Many of the recipients are women in nuclear families, whose husbands have fertility problems.

Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 1) 46

You've tried running screens with very different dpi then? If you have a window running at hidpi on the 4k and drag it over to the 1080p, what happens? Will the app get scaled automatically (hopefully the toolkit redraws instead of everything being blurry). My understanding is X11 cannot deal with that scenario at all, xrandr notwithstanding. But I've never tried it myself. Will have a 4K monitor to test with in the new year.

Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 3, Insightful) 46

How well does X.org do with a dual screen system where one is 4K and the other is 1080P? For folks running laptops this sort of scenario is increasingly common, and X11 just doesn't do it very well.

I'm contemplating buying a 4K monitor and my main concern was how well X11 and the various desktop environments do hidpi. Having switched to Wayland, though, and with Firefox natively on Wayland and supporting fractional scaling, it makes the purchase a bit more comfortable.

Comment Re: Why was the older version better? (Score 5, Insightful) 75

They don't really know what caused the glitch.

The cosmic ray hypothesis is just a conjecture.

So, they're rolling back to the previous version until they can figure it out.

If they're doing memory scrubbing, they might want to bump up the frequency.

If they aren't using semiconductors made with depleted boron, they should be.

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