LexiMax

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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> Having been a longtime Windows user, an on/off Linux desktop user, and now primarily a Mac user, I really think it's just what you're used to I've also used all three OS's in anger and largely agree. I like to
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> the former type is all but obliterated now. Discord is the 9,000lb gorilla of this form of social media, and it's actually quietly one of the largest social platforms on the internet. There's clearly a desire for these kinds
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
You don't have to go that far, there's a lot easier solution - prefer socializing in spaces that actually vet their users to some degree and have humans who have an active hand in moderation. It's the old way that social spac
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
The funny part is that Alexander comes to the exact same conclusion: Adams is easy and fun to mock - as is everyone who lives their life uniquely and unapologetically. I’ve had a good time psychoanalyzing him, but everyone does whatever th
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
They are either being paid, or they are so lost in propaganda that they're willing to do it >for free. They have more time that they are willing to waste on propaganda than you, unless you decide to dedicate every waking moment to
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
Your comment seems almost completely divorced from the tone of someone who actually read the article in good faith. It's almost like you got to the first critical thing that was said, stopped, and came back to the comments section to
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
Only tangentially related, but the title reminds me of hack you could do on old DOS machines to get access to a 160x100 16-color display mode on a CGA graphics adapter. The display mode is actually a hacked up 80x25 text mode. So in that s
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
I'd hardly call any of Germany's prewar annexations free. It was clear very early on that Germany was being led by a violent bully, so past a certain point appeasement wasn't a blank check, but was instead intended to buy tim
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> What bothers me is the performative nature of it I always find it funny how these sorts of things always seem to roll one way. You can be supportive of him all you like, but if you're going to distance yourself, do it quietly - p
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
Hacker News is Reddit with tone policing and a nuclear downvote button. The only difference is scale, and with the increasing flood of bot users and throwaway alt accounts, that's starting to matter less and less.
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
A few days ago he was claiming that the most orderly societies had the least seasoned food.
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> I can’t tell if the community is being taken over by a subset of bad actors, or YC is asserting opaque editorial control. The purpose of a system is what it does. If the end result is the same, is there a difference?
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
My account is primordial and I took long vacations from HN for precisely the reason he stated. This site has always had a bad faith flagging/downvoting issue; the bots might make it worse, but the culture was always there.
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
It is proof that intellectual property is a transient and fickle thing, easily subverted when there is no legal framework to protect it.
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
I agree in spirit, but in actual fact this subversion of intellectual property is disproportionately beneficial to those who can afford to steal from others and those who can afford to enforce their copyright, while disproportionately disad
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> also has to turn it into a moral or ethical question so they can either feel better about it themselves, You phrased this as an either-or thing, so I am actually genuinely curious....what exactly is wrong with this attitude? We as peop
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> you are a broken person On the contrary, I think folks that always try to find some sort of hypocrisy in how folks choose to not spend their money are broken. It seems too cynical by half, and completely discards any sort of relative m
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> There are a few artists whose output I can't even enjoy any more because their vitriol became so out of control that I couldn't see their work without thinking of their awfulness, though. Thank you for at least acknowledging
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
And what is stopping the donor class from simply jumping ship, or at least moving portions of their assets into forms that are shielded from what is going on?
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
It's not the only anomaly. There was a previous period of long peace between 1815 and 1914, between the Napoleonic Wars and WW1. This balance of power was carefully set up in the Congress of Vienna following the (first) defeat of Napo
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> A lot of people view flagging as "that is a troll post/comment" or "that was made in bad faith". But I think another reason many people flag is "this topic is highly unlikely to generate any useful discuss
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
groan > When dealing with class hierarchies, destructive move semantics becomes problematic. If you move the base first, then the source has a constructed derived part and a destructed base part. If you move the derived part first then
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
As someone who has actually had to launder pointers before, I would characterize gremlins like std::launder as escape hatches to dig your way out of dilemmas specific to C++ that the language was responsible for burying you under in the fi
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> but you have to understand the rationale behind C++: a language suitable for large scale systems programming with ZERO OVERHEAD . Is this the reason why C++ was created, or the last remaining niche that C++ is holding onto? I remember
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
It's far too late to put the genie back in the bottle, but I am morbidly curious as to why the standards committee didn't choose an approach that made moves destructive.
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
This might not be a popular opinion, but in my experience stock GNOME is quite the polished experience. In the grand pantheon of my experience using operating systems, Snow Leopard-era macOS is probably my favorite, mostly due to how smooth
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
I have seen very little evidence that bad-faith flagging is actually punished at any appreciable scale on this site. Either the flagging tools are too easy to get hold of for new users, or the culture of flagging on this site is positively
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> I think it's more than just the normal amount for advocacy of a new language. More than C++? More than Java? More than Python?
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
I'm going to guess that most of those issues were caused by implicit declarations no longer being valid. int main() { printf("Sans headers, this is valid C89."); return 0; } Without an explicit de
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> Can’t escape it anywhere on the internet where general political posts are allowed. You actually can. I have political discussions with people who disagree with me in many social spaces. What you can't do is have there be zero fr

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