LexiMax

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by LexiMax 1y ago
You and I are in complete agreement on that front.
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I upvoted you because you bring up a good point and I want to make clear that I'm not excusing their horrendous behavior or trying to imply that the good necessarily requires or even outweighs the bad. I'm merely pointing out that
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by LexiMax 1y ago
I'm not sure why you're being dismissive. I have no doubt that these sorts of restrictions are coming for something they actually use and care about. And speaking more broadly, teenagers are in the process of growing into adults.
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They seem to be missing a critical piece - for the horrors that China inflicted on its own population, it also become a preeminent world power and pulled millions out of poverty. What seems to be happening elsewhere is an organized robbery
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by LexiMax 1y ago
They're not tech savvy because they didn't need to be. That will change. One thing that has not changed from our parents generation to our generation to the upcoming generations is that teenagers will be troublemakers, push bound
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by LexiMax 1y ago
Since we're sharing our monospace fonts of choice, I use mononoki. My vision isn't great, and this is the font I've found that allows me to pack the most on my screen while still remaining readable. https://github
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by LexiMax 1y ago
There's a difference, though. From your post, it doesn't sound like you actually enjoy your line of work at all. Instead, it sounds like work is merely being the thing that happens to annoy you the least - something to occupy an
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> The real question is: Why didn't past presidents utilize that power that they clearly had? The two parties have different platforms and have material differences in the way they govern, but the oligarchs that fund both sides of th
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> You shouldn't. Word-of-mouth should be the primary way people discover products. I've been a satisfied customer of theirs since 2023. That said, I've been burned by far too many companies - especially tech companies - wh
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You're not very good at this, are you. :)
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Again, gender identity and gender expression is something that is up to the individual. You don't label someone as trans, you ask them how they identify, just as if you were asking what name they go by. You and I are on the exact same
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The thought of being complicit in a society that guards abused children of fundamentalist christians against apostasy and thoughtcrime fills me with despair and dread. If that's the society we are heading towards, count me out. I shal
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by LexiMax 1y ago
Since you are throwing around accusations of bad faith and grooming, I do not believe that this conversation is of any further productive use. Instead, I only offer a gentile reminder of the Hacker News guidelines, along with a genuine wish
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by LexiMax 1y ago
My overarching question - the one that started this comment chain - explicitly mentioned gender expression and gender identity. It has been brought up by me several other times in this comment thread. I am not hiding what this discussion
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> Not at all Then ultimately you and I agree on the main crux of this conversation, the part that actually matters.
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> Depending on your jurisdiction, there are messages you can't target to kids. Why should there be a special exemption for this? Because the idea that the only acceptable gender norms a kid is allowed to be exposed to and express is
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> This isn't an "I believe..." / "Do you believe..." kind of issue though. I asked because I wanted to get a sense on if he conflating the two by accident, or if it was an attempt to steer the conversation a
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Here's the quote about their plans for transfolk: > Transgender people will see their existence denied and their rights stripped away under Project 2025. The authors equate "transgender ideology" to pornography, calling fo
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> transgender treatments The grandparent post didn't say "transgender treatments" they said "transgender issues." Do you believe that the mere concept of questioning your gender identity or expression is somethin
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> The case study in comment section hallucinations is as interesting to me as what is presently unfolding at Mozilla itself. I have long suspected that a good chunk of the controversy surrounding Mozilla that I've seen is...let&#x27
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> And then you get articles like these complaining about Mozilla re-selling a VPN service. Not only that, but their competitors are also selling - or at the very least promoting - VPN services.
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I've noticed this as well. It's in especially stark contrast when you compare to other browsers, such as Brave, whose gaffes and controversies tend to be overlooked, excused, or forgotten about. EDIT: For me, my choice of browser
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by LexiMax 1y ago
I am also aware of what the rules say, as well as how they tend to be applied in practice. The latter is why I don't find arguments that fall back on the former persuasive.
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I'm familiar with the voting patterns of HN users. For this reason I tend to browse HN using the https://news.ycombinator.com/active frontpage because it contains the flagged topics that certain users of this site atte
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I suspect you overestimate the amount of time or effort needed to write such an abstraction. Our base multiplayer abstraction is about 3k lines of C++, and once you have that in place there are a number of battle-tested low-level netcode l
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We're not talking about Python 2 here. This is a pre-1.0 language. As an occasional dabbler in the language, I implicitly understand this to mean that there will be breaking changes, and I have made peace with that. Looking over the
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There is nothing preventing you from writing an abstraction that supports both the fancy middleware as well as direct IP connections. I can say this with certainty because I've also worked on multiplayer in several shipped multi-region
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History isn't written by the victors. It's written by historians.
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Reddit might need to know who real users are, but that doesn't mean they have to truthfully surface that information to us little people.
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You are seeing the outcome of structural problems that plague any site that puts pseudo-moderation tools into its users hands. Voting and flagging has been weaponized on this site for far longer than most HN users would care to admit. In f

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