LexiMax

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by LexiMax 3y ago
I've always been a fan of _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS, personally.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
One thing that was unclear to me based on my prior noodling with Zig was what the plans were for supporting interface or trait-based polymorphism. I've been falling in love with C++'s std::experimental::is_detected and am looking
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> Don't rush to label people as toxic unless they are obviously being dicks to others. He used a question about project governance to rant about the "clownworld" we all supposedly inhabit - as well as labeling entire group
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by LexiMax 3y ago
That does not follow. Languages as large and successful as Python and as small and up-and-coming as Zig have had foundations for years, despite both having a primary lead developer and tastemaker. This rant really does come off as an embit
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by LexiMax 3y ago
One of my projects switched to "stable" since "master", "main" and "trunk" all seemed to have different meanings for different projects.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
That response almost comes off as a non-sequitor, and the only somewhat reasonable interpretation I can parse out of it is that he purposefully has no succession plan as a middle-finger to anybody who might want to use Nim after he's g
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Only if you have a single account. Most Mastodon clients allow multi-accounting quite trivially. Also probably not the best argument to make in a thread whose main topic of conversation is about how one of the biggest social networks on th
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> "What's happening?" That's a very good question.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Red Hat is adhering to the letter of Open Source and Free Software. If this makes you unhappy, we need better definitions and licenses.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
The spirit of copyleft has no weight in a courtroom. If people are unhappy with the way Red Hat is legally using the GPL, we need better licenses.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
It's not unprecedented. In the history of the US, the Bible has been used to justify owning slaves and segregation. It's a common strategy. Figure out the conclusion you want to draw first, and then look in the Bible for things
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Being fundamentally different doesn't necessarily mean there's room for the old thing. Sometimes, tastes just change and people move on to the next big thing.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Getting banned 16 times from a social space is a pretty clear message that you're not welcome. Equivalent behavior in meatspace would likely get you trespassed from the property or arrested.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> I’m struggling to see how HN without voting would be anything other than a simple timeline of posts with comments. I feel like voting for the content itself but keeping the comments section flat and sorted by time would lead to less ga
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by LexiMax 3y ago
I don't think so. Reddit has never been a huge moneymaker like Facebook, and its recent decisions seem very short-sighted and designed to make the site look appealing for the IPO, and who cares what happens after that. I think it&#x27
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Simple internetology also dictates that when a site starts making the user experience miserable, users will accrete elsewhere. Discord is actively eating away at Reddit's userbase, to the point where community subreddits tend to be on
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> As long as they fulfill the license obligations towards their customers, it's fine. This cannot be stressed enough. If we are unhappy with this outcome, maybe we should be taking another look at the licenses we choose when we rel
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> The fact that the fediverse crowd see nothing wrong with naming a social network "Mastodon" implies "NERRRDS" without having to even mention it. I don't think Mastodon even makes the top 25 of most cringeworthy
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> On the other hand, if the fediverse wants to be a niche community that only lets the "right" people in, then they should come out and say so, and stop recommending Mastodon as an alternative to FB/Twitter. Why? The only
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Yikes. I was half expecting you to end that last sentence with a contemptuous "NERRRRRRRRRDS!!!"
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by LexiMax 3y ago
You and I must be working with different definitions of "Walled Garden." I can connect to multiple places on the fediverse with a single app. The app also works pretty consistently between servers and doesn't go out of its w
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> People complain more people should dump centralization and move to Mastodon, but every time they try they get shouted at for doing it wrong. It seems 100% reasonable to suspect the motives of a company with two massive walled-garden so
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by LexiMax 3y ago
If the end state of the fediverse is the same incumbent social networks running the federated social media sphere just like they run their walled gardens, what would've been the point of the entire exercise? Meta already has their soci
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by LexiMax 3y ago
I don't really see what good can come from an entrenched social media company responsible for walled garden communities trying to enter the fediverse. The whole point of federation is to _avoid_ those single points of failure. Besides
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Diablo II had two ways of playing online - Open BNet and Closed BNet. Open BNet allowed you to use your offline characters, but Closed BNet did not. The theory of the system was sound. The practical reason why Diablo II was a mess was bec
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> I loved these games. But the community around them is so utterly toxic now. A good number of my friends play Final Fantasy XVI, and something that surprised the heck out of me is how friendly the community is. The moderation team of t
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Singapore also uses authoritarian capitalism and out-GDP-per-capita's all of the above, including the US.
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by LexiMax 3y ago
This license seems to specifically take aim at RHEL's new source distribution policy. Are we as a community okay with allowing this to happen, because Red Hat is adhering to the letter of the GPL and the FSD/OSD/DFSG? Are th
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> When people try to make even stronger ones, they usually end up making something that's neither free nor open source "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" The FSF's stewardship of
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> Hard disagree. Most niche hobbies, the discoverability for discord is impossible. That's fair, and ironically Reddit is a better on-ramp for discovering Discord than anything Discord offers. But this position is _incredibly_ prec

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