LexiMax

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by LexiMax 9mo ago
You would need to be incredibly careful with compiling old C89 code on a modern compiler. It's not the language changes that would get you, it's a change in how compilers treat undefined behavior. There has always been undefined
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
I saw the article title and somehow I predicted the top most voted response on Hacker News without even clicking on the comments - someone having sympathy for the poor poor white supremacist.
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> Diluting the tech focus here with average mainstream politics attracts the wrong crowd and adds little of value. Flagged stories are some of the most active stories on HN. If the goal is to act as a filter on the kinds of acceptable t
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
I was recently noodling around with a retrocoding setup. I have to admit that I did grin a silly grin when I found a set of compile flags for a DOS compiler that caused sizeof(void far*) to return 6 - the first time I'd ever seen it r
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> But this is why machines now need 16GB of ram and four cores to run the calculator. This has more to do with the fact that the web stack has become the de-facto app development platform, and thus we inherit the bloat and optimization o
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> Be a business that makes an actual product that people want sufficiently to buy it and cover the costs, because your website is in itself the ad for your company and product. And how do you suppose people find out about that product? L
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
Someone I once knew put it in a slightly more charitable way. "Having friends is a skill."
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
> Here, I would argue that we can effectively prove that hanging indentation is vastly more parallel to natural language than braces. I see where you're coming from. However, I would counter that in the use cases you've shown,
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
I find that this is something reflective of most modern language ecosystems, not just Rust. I actually first started noticing the pervasiveness of MIT on npm. For me, I am of two minds. On one hand, the fact that billion-dollar empires ar
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
...Can anybody else make sense of this? Every time I attempt to read it, halfway through my brain flips into the mode that is normally reserved for when people start telling me that Ivermectin is a COVID remedy, or something equally farcic
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by LexiMax 9mo ago
The best time for a city to invest in making their city walkable and public-transportation-able is decades ago. The second best time for a city to invest in making their city walkable and public-transportation-able is now.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
This thread required manual intervention to override the algorithm - intervention that it did not always have and not all stories benefit from. My argument is that the algorithm, as well as the various gameified engagement mechanisms on thi
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
I was under the impression that he got got for the very political reason for his company being used to circumvent capital controls.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> I'm trying to persuade the rest of the people reading. That does help, and is part of the reason I myself engage with these folks from time to time, but it requires discipline to recognize when you're throwing good effort aft
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
I believe you when you say that nobody at YC put their thumb on the scale for this story in particular. However, YC very much has control over the algorithm used to rank stories on the Hacker News front page, and this algorithm very commonl
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Whitespace cleanliness is only part of the problem. The much bigger issue is the fact that the ending of a block is invisible. This leads to several problems: 1. It becomes much more difficult to tell beginners where the end of a block is
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> HN is one of the few places where this feel-good nonsense actually gets rejected Something I learned a long time ago is that it doesn't matter how well you argue a point with a nincompoop, they will simply shrug and repeat their h
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
I feel like if #1 was done today, there is no way on god's green earth that whitespace would be used for code blocks. It is far and away the most common footgun novices run into when I'm answering questions about why their code do
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
This is precisely why I always use the active front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/active It is the answer to the question. "What stories do Hacker News users not want me to see?"
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
I found somebody making this argument just the other day on Hacker News in regard to license plate tracking. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250556 > In practice I'm not even getting "tracked". No o
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Hacker News is Reddit with a nuclear downvote button and tone policing. It's not that much better in terms of "dead internet," the bots are just more eloquent. In some ways the HN flavor of gamified engagement actively encou
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
And this is what I find funny about the term "LGBT lifestyle." Most definitions of the term, including yours, could just as easily apply to cohorts of straight people if you just swap the gender of one of the subjects. Imagine som
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Mozilla is certainly paddling upstream. Of all of the AI-integrated apps and sites that I'm subjected to, I can think of exactly two where it wasn't obnoxious and a pain in the neck to disable. Kagi. Zed. That's it, that&#
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
It is kind of astonishing to me that the entire chain of logic was put together without "The company could invest in better customer service to resolve disputed identity" as a third possibility. It was certainly my first priority
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
As someone who is also on the spectrum, literalism explains confusion over the definition, but not the downplaying of the consequences.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> glorifying LGBT lifestyle What is an LGBT lifestyle? My life before and after discovering the nature of my queerness is remarkably similar, though with a fair few more relationships and a lot less anguish afterwards.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
A very commonly banned book here in the United States - at least historically - is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There's a specific chapter that my mind has returned to, again and again, in situations where anonymous cowards iss
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> All this to say I think it makes book bans a bit muddier - in some instances they might be legitimate pushback on aggressive editorialization by librarians. But in most instances, they are self-obviously performative and unnecessary. Y
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I suspect that whatever example they had in mind, it's a passage that is descriptive of someone's personal experience while not being prescriptive in telling the reader step-by-step how to follow in their footsteps.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Conversations like these are so immensely frustrating to have on Hacker News. This thread is full of people falling over themselves trying to convince you that a book ban isn't actually a book ban, and whatever it happens to be isn&#x2

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