LexiMax

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by LexiMax 3y ago
I feel like millennials and younger folks are a lot more sex positive than older generations, but in many places reactionary moralizers are the ones with the reigns of power due to how the district lines are drawn.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> Neither vim-or-vim-fork editor users nor vim-or-vim-fork-potential-devs are going to see any significant jump in population from the presense of neovim. Last time I used vim there was still a thriving ecosystem of vanilla-compatible vi
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Why? To me, the BSL comes off as a good faith attempt at a compromise between the letter of "Open Source" and the realities of not wanting to give free labor to your competition. The actual text of the BSL mandates - under threat
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by LexiMax 3y ago
From what I understand, it's POSIX that reserves the _t suffix, not C. That being said, I picked up the _s/_t habit from working on idtech codebases, and decided that I'm fine with my own C codebases forever having a "no
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> That's regardless of people "having the right to fork". Yes they do. But also yes, if they exercize that right, they do split a community and divert interest from a project to 2 projects. You're not dividing the sam
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> The counterfeit book won't have an NFT. Or it might come with an NFT created by the scammer, which they might trick the reader into trusting with social engineering.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
I do not misunderstand what an NFT is theoretically technically capable of. The problem is that your proposed idea is non-responsive to the underlying problem that fakes and counterfeits are trivial to source on Amazon.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
If I'm following your idea correctly, a prerequisite would be that we as a society would need to make it impossible to publish a book, digital or physical, without an attached NFT. It's also worth mentioning that the OP of this co
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> The fact that this was so downvoted makes me worry. Allowing LGBT couples to have biological children risks undercutting many common biology-based excuses for discrimination. For some, being solutions-oriented is less important than j
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Can concur. My last personal PC had a 3570k and lasted for a very, very long time. I do wonder if AMD's Ryzen 5 3600 might be in a similar position for this generation.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Apple, Facebook, Valve, and most of those other companies you're outlining had successful business models built on their habitual users _before_ alienating a portion of their customer base. Reddit has never been profitable and was neve
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by LexiMax 3y ago
I know this is only anecdotal, but since the blackout started, my engagement with the site has plummeted to almost nothing. The few times I check my feed out of habit I simply don't see anything worth clicking on or engaging with in a
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> Over the long term, Reddit’s scrambling efforts at financial security may prove just as futile as the moderators’ attempts to fight back. I wish this lede wasn't buried. Reddit was always going to "win" any battle with
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> All the previous restrictions have had some form of workaround, but without the keys, you're not going to get past remote attestation. What's stopping other browsers from piggybacking off of Chrome's keys?
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> Homophobia isn't the right word. The church isn't afraid of homosexuality. It has beliefs that are inconsistent with homosexuality but it isnt fear as the word falsely implies. The church encompasses many beliefs and mandates
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by LexiMax 3y ago
I've done green-field work with both Nim and Zig. There were loads of specific differences, but if I could characterize both languages in a simple way: - Nim seems to emphasize being a swiss army knife in the way that Python is, except
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by LexiMax 3y ago
The last time I used the language, it was still using a garbage-collector and there were talks about transitioning towards a new way of doing things - I assume that ARC/ORC ended up being that destination. Now that ARC/ORC is cons
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by LexiMax 3y ago
And of course, Dan Olson's amazing "Line Goes Up." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g https://eizebasa.baby/line-goes-up (Complete script)
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by LexiMax 3y ago
There were valid reasons to be upset at Python 3's handling of Unicode. - https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/ - Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by LexiMax 3y ago
In a past life I hacked on PHP for a living, and in the time it took Python 2 to ride off into the sunset, PHP got two major migrations under its belt in 5.2 to 5.3, and then again 5.6 to 7.0. It was amazing to see the contrast between the
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by LexiMax 3y ago
If C wanted a form of generics, it could likely do much better than templates. Concepts might've improved things, but I'm stuck on C++17 right now so I can't speak with experience.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> This has been an issue plaguing Alpine for years where the musl maintainer basically said the standard says may fallback, not must fallback. Let the rest of the internet change, we don't feel this is important. We're standard
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> didn't come to life as a reaction to Twitter changing ownership Small correction, it came to life years before the actual purchase due to the _possibility_ that Twitter could be purchased. This gave it years to mature, and I thin
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by LexiMax 3y ago
That tracks with what I'm seeing - BlueSky is where most of my twitter-addict friends have either already ended up or are angling to get into. A few of them have Mastodon accounts too.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
The full quote: > Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature wil
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> The "shallow platitudes" cut through the BS. Shallow platitudes are themselves BS - populist soundbites that can be weaponized both for things you like and things you don't. There are better conversations happening else
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Mastodon was really never going to be that place where most of the internet moved. It would've been nice in a perfect world, but it's simply not set up as an advertiser-friendly social networking site that would attract celebriti
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by LexiMax 3y ago
I am still using an iPad Air 2 from 2014. In that same time span, I've had at least 4 different Android phones. I'm considering an iPhone for my next phone, although I'm a Google Voice user which makes me a little nervous ab
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29065265
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by LexiMax 3y ago
I think the point is that reality is a complex and messy place, and shallow platitudes don't really add much to the conversation.

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