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Even though they are essential workers,
#paid #care #jobs are
not “good jobs” – that is:
they generally pay low wages and don’t have benefits such as access to healthcare, paid sick days, paid leave, union protections or reti…

I'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild

Sät man soziale Unsicherheit, kultiviert man prekäre #Jobs, droht #Arbeitsplatzverlust durch inkompetentes #Management, werden

Schlechtes Weihnachtsgeschäft: "Menschen halten sich zurück im Konsum"
Bei der Kundschaft ist im Weihnachtsgeschäft keine Kauflaune aufgekommen. Der Handel äußert sich enttäuscht. Vergleichsweise gut lief es nur in großen Städten, im Online-Handel sowie bei ausgewählten Produkten.

15 years remote and counting
#jobs

Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

Der #DGB Nord befürchtet durch die neuen Pläne des #Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums erhebliche Risiken für #Jobs in der

Windbranche: DGB Nord warnt vor Jobabbau durch Reiches Energiewendepläne - Golem.de
Der DGB Nord sieht durch den Gesetzentwurf von Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche zehntausende Jobs in der Windbranche in Gefahr.

KI-Synchronisation bedroht #Jobs in der #Filmbranche.
Die #Filmindustrie testet #KI-Stimmen für …

Synchronisation durch KI: Wenn Sprecherstimmen ersetzt werden
KI statt menschlicher Stimmen? Ich zeige Dir, wie Deepdub & Co. bereits Filme synchronisieren – mit Folgen für die ganze Branche.

"Es geht nur und ausschließlich um Kosten. Wenn die KI deinen Job machen kann, hast du keinen mehr. Die gute Nachricht ist: Sie kann es nicht." | Das ist der feuchte Traum | @… | #KI #Jobs

If you're looking for a gig, #jobsearch #remote_jobs #job_search #TechJobSearch #TechJobResources #sre #devops #devops

extremely relevant to the upcoming "Auto Strategy" being released by the Liberal Carney government.
make no mistake. Decades of Canadian, Ontarian, and Alberta governments are complicit in the Oil companies efforts to avoid the transition
#endfossilfuels #canpoli #cdnpoli #onpoli #ev #cars #jobs https://jacobin.com/2026/02/fossil-fuels-michigan-trump-lawsuit