AlexMax

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by AlexMax 6y ago
What made you think I was talking about Trump? I just said "authoritarian".
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by AlexMax 6y ago
Those rules applied today would result in indecipherable cesspools of memes at best or a community of authoritarian sympathizers at worst, who would be oh-so-happy to start conditioning their like-minded members to force undesirables away,
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by AlexMax 6y ago
> Has anyone had positive experiences with systemd? I was a relatively early adopter to CentOS 7, and I have yet to run into an issue that I could pin on systemd across any of the Linux systems I use or maintain. Then again, my requirem
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by AlexMax 6y ago
I wanted to like snaps (and flatpaks before then), because trying to ease packaging and deployment of apps on Linux is a noble goal, but in both cases I eventually gave up on non-trivial use of them because they were always broken in some a
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by AlexMax 7y ago
I don't necessarily agree with your argument - I think it's a perfectly reasonable conclusion that either Microsoft and Google could have worse telemetry in their browser. That said, I noticed the strange behavior around this arti
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by AlexMax 7y ago
This is amazing, and I am incredibly glad someone has put in the legwork to see this to fruition. I spent hours with it as a kid, both with it and its unofficial successor Megazeux. ZZT was a fun game creation system out of the box, but wh
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by AlexMax 7y ago
> Keeping in mind that generally technical people will join this server and may have a vested interest in the move from IRC? I'm not sure what the implication is here. > The issue around IRC is not a problem that can't be so
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by AlexMax 7y ago
Son of a gun, I have been running into this issue sporadically ever since I built my new PC with a Radeon 5700 XT, and I thought it might have been a bug in the drivers or a bad card, but turns out it's this instead. For what it's
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by AlexMax 7y ago
I don't agree with your core conceit of delineating between moderation and censorship, but this threw me: > As long as the "vitriol" was pertinent to the topic, it should be allowed. After all, that's the point of the
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by AlexMax 7y ago
> If that was true, HN would be infinitely more popular than reddit. Not sure that was the best example. /r/programming is kind of notorious for being HN on a few-hour tape delay with a substantially diminished quality of conv
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by AlexMax 7y ago
> There is moderation and there is censorship. Nobody is against filtering spam. Trolling is fine in my opinion. Just let the user have the option of blocking who they want to block an follow who they want to follow. In my experience, mo
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by AlexMax 7y ago
> Though python has in so many ways, usurped it Funny you should mention that. Python's standard GUI system is still based on tk, and from a quick look at the docs you can even run a tcl script from inside Python. https:/&#x2
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by AlexMax 7y ago
> I just setup Edge a few minutes ago. There are two options "Inspirational" and "Focused" that show no crappy tabloid news websites and one that does - I didn't pick that one :) I chose focused. It's a nic
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by AlexMax 7y ago
I cannot for the life of me find the blog post where I learned about this, but I learned long ago that the only reliable way to get Excel to open a CSV file with Unicode in it - regardless of whatever ancient version and OS they're usi
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by AlexMax 7y ago
Yeah, I actually was very excited to use Parcel until I ran into a tree-shaking bug on my project that broke the generated bundle. I ended up switching to rollup instead, since although you still had to configure it, there were many less t
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by AlexMax 7y ago
Did SPIR-V actually "prevail", or is Apple going to continue implementing WSL regardless of where the standard goes?
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by AlexMax 7y ago
They mention it in one of the lines of this blog, but apparently this individual (perhaps with the help of others, it wasn't clear) has come up with two of their own software licenses, with a website and everything. https://
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by AlexMax 7y ago
I have some recent experience with doing game programming in C and while I think the experience was overall positive, I'm not sure that I would do it again unless my aim was portability. I found that when my project grew to a certain s
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by AlexMax 7y ago
The biggest new feature appears to be local variable attributes. You can now annotate variables with `const` or `toclose`. The former prevents reassignment, and the latter runs a metamethod upon the local going out of scope. There's
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Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) now available(lua-users.org)
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by AlexMax 7y ago
> without a doubt 64-bit integers is a win I'm not so sure about that. There is an alternative implementation of Lua called LuaJIT, which uses a similar NaN-tagging trick, and it also happens to be incredibly fast. LuaJIT uses the
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by AlexMax 8y ago
What would be the point? Copyleft licenses ensure that the code itself remains open source. MIT-style licenses ensures that a developer can use the code without encumbrance. And there are already plenty of licenses out there that are inco
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by AlexMax 8y ago
I like Nim but its ffi, while really good, is not effortless. You have to wrap every function you call, which in large C libraries can be an incredible pain in the neck. There are tools to help you out, like c2nim, but in my experience the
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by AlexMax 8y ago
As far as I can tell, this is not settled law. GPLv2 is not the only license without an explicit "no-take-backsies" clause, and pretty much all literature I've read about open source previous to this incident suggested that a
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by AlexMax 8y ago
That's a neat idea, but what prevents people from squatting official-looking usernames? And what happens if the mod team changes?
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by AlexMax 8y ago
For me, rewriting history is a feature of Git, and not a bug. I used to use Mercurial, which prioritized immutability of history, and I found that I was too frightened of some of the more advanced features with not-obvious side effects to
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by AlexMax 8y ago
> It’s doing this by using first-party data gathered by iPhones with a privacy-first methodology Does this seem contradictory to anybody else? Kind of like "anonymized data collection" that turns out to be not-so-anobymous whe
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by AlexMax 8y ago
Thankfully, not for very much longer... http://wg21.link/P0907r2 C++, but apparently something similar is being considered for C as well. https://twitter.com/jfbastien/status/989242576598327296?lan
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by AlexMax 8y ago
Thought so. If you're primarily a *NIX user, there are a bunch of reasonable build system alternatives out there, but if "supporting Windows" is even a little bit of a priority, I have found CMake to be far and away the least
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by AlexMax 8y ago
How does meson's find_library compare to CMake when it comes to finding libraries on Windows? That, and the very nice GUI tool that comes with it are my two killer features of CMake.

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