LexiMax

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by LexiMax 1y ago
I will die on the hill that string concatenation should have its own operator, and overloading + for the operation is a mistake. Languages that get it right: SQL, Lua, ML, Perl, PHP, Visual Basic.
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Grandma has a tablet these days.
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by LexiMax 1y ago
That's strange, because in my time using Fedora it was far and away the most vertically integrated Linux distro I've ever used. It had the fewest Linux-typical papercuts, it was well-documented, and most importantly required the l
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The point of the show is that the wiretaps didn't ultimately amount to anything, for reasons that had nothing to do with how good the police work was, and everything to do with politics and the systemic failure of institutions. A few o
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> Could you watch The Wire and point out exactly what you'd do differently. The whole point of the Wire is how meaningless those wiretaps ended up being. On either side of the board, the kings stayed the kings, most of the other pie
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by LexiMax 1y ago
I don't know how it is in Czechia, but here in the US, we have a long and storied history of suburbanization, white flight, redlining, exclusionary covenents and discriminatory mortgaging. The result is entire generations of people who
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by LexiMax 1y ago
I'm talking more on an individual level. Police states can be weaponized to settle petty and personal grudges, and it doesn't matter if the victims are in the "majority" or not. "My neighbor is actually a Canadian
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> The weirdest part to me is that people still don’t seem to understand this? It's possible to understand this perfectly and yet prefer to try and argue a more reasonable interpretation, hoping whoever you're talking to won&#x2
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> But the iOS keyboard was completely unusable for me as a power user, and it cannot be replaced. If you're still on Android, try FUTO keyboard. I found the voice-to-text feature to actually be on par with Google's, but withou
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by LexiMax 1y ago
If you're sitting next to a homeless person for 20+ minutes you're not in danger, you're just uncomfortable sharing space with the less fortunate.
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by LexiMax 1y ago
I've had panhandlers walk up to me at stop lights in suburban sprawl cities. I find it very hard to believe that the GP hasn't experienced the same.
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> This happened en masse many decades ago in America. There was a name for this trend - White flight. I grew up in southern suburbia and in walkable southern towns - they do exist, in pockets. I learned two things from my experiences. F
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> It's probably people here are smart in one field and automatically think they are smart in others. Or it's just the heavy drug use. Or it could be as simple as motivated reasoning. Someone I go to for hair grooming is a consp
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by LexiMax 1y ago
Hacker News's "tuning out" is a mirage. It hides a seedy underbelly of unaccountable user-based moderation and vote manipulation that is very plain to see if you use the "active" front page instead of the standard
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by LexiMax 1y ago
Someone on this forum might be one of the lucky 10,000. They also made their own texture conversion tool, which might save someone some time and effort. Of course, they might have written the blog post with the intention of drawing attenti
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by LexiMax 1y ago
This sort of batch asset conversion can be pretty easily automated with some combination of scripting and/or makefile. Taking the time to learn about these sorts of compression methods is well worth it, as once you start loading assets
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> Unfortunately, AFAICT most people end up rolling their own exporters. Aside from the closed-source NVIDIA texture tool, I'm also aware of AMD's Compressonator, and Microsoft's DirectXTex implementation of texconv. Intel
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> When you tell people they are "white supremacist-coded" they simply do not care. Although I know that being politically correct is not in vogue at the moment, I do care and empathize, and try to be accommodating with my langu
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> But in truth growth is growth. You are thinking of a tide that lifts all boats. The people supporting these policies don't want all boats to be lifted - they want prosperity for themselves and subjugation for anyone else. The powe
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by LexiMax 1y ago
That might be true, but that wasn't really their point. Being accurate is less important than trying to get the lie out in front of as many eyeballs as possible, so the lie can be repeated in front of people who might not realize this
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by LexiMax 1y ago
It's not so much that they didn't reason themselves into a position, as much as that they actually _do_ have a reason - just not the one they're telling you. If anything, it reminds me of an X-Y problem. They don't real
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by LexiMax 1y ago
I imagine that this post will be flagged or downvoted off the homepage by fellow travelers, so I will take this opportunity to promote the active front page as a way to bypass their attempts at censorship. https://news.ycombinato
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I am also friends with a fair few anti-vaxers and have attempted the reasonable and kind approach based on the facts. After many, many attempts, the conclusion I finally came to is that there isn't truly a gap in communication, but in
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by LexiMax 1y ago
If anything, it reminds me of crypto - lots of investment seemed to attract a lot of users to HN that I highly suspect had some sort of...let's just call it motivated reasoning.
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This is a complete and utter non-starter for most software developers. On pretty much every other operating system out there, I as the application author have control over the release cadence of my software. On some platforms, I can simply
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by LexiMax 1y ago
Other social networks can ban people I follow and I have no recourse.
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That's fair, but a more pervasive Free Software ecosystem might have possibly avoided this outcome entirely. And that failure is something we can lay directly at the feet of the FSF. If RMS was going to piss off the entire industry wi
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by LexiMax 1y ago
You are 100% correct. Such a shame that the Free Software Foundation has been such an awful steward of the GPL. The fact that the GPLv3 didn't close the network hole is a decision made either out of myopia or abject cowardice, you sho
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> Linux will not penetrate that market unless it makes it possible to release completely proprietary (even woefully crappy, move fast and break things) software easily. Underrated point. Most Linux distros have historically catered to an
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Why do people lie? Why is Hacker News not a place where one can blanketly assume good faith? Why is social media infested with bots, trolls and AI? What is the dead internet theory?

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