LexiMax

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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Conservapedia already exists if you care about the politics involved. Grokipedia is just a lazy low-effort vanity project of an unlikable billionaire. And that's a sentiment I've seen from conservatives and liberals. EDIT: I thin
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> The need to hate on Grokipedia is weird to me. In isolation, Grokipedia is the vanity project of an unlikable billionare who wants to control narratives. But I'd argue that there's more to it than just Musk. Zoom out a bit,
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Honestly, I've been trying to cut down on the number of Microsoft development tools in my workflow because they are so drunk on the AI Kool-Aid that it's affecting the usability and reliability of their products in pretty much eve
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
I think Github has a nice UI.....when the contents finishes loading. That's the real problem with Github these days. Too much critical information behind throbbers that take their sweet time. I find Codeberg much more responsive, des
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
I have to interact with bitbucket on a daily basis. My advice is not just "no" but "heck no." Bitbucket is slow to push to and pull from. From a reliability standpoint I have far more issues with Bitbucket than Github.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Pretty much. At the point where tensions rise beyond polite disagreement, HN ceases to be a functional social space and turns into a game of "who can make the other's opinions disappear first." Doing so is technically against
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Meanwhile, my original comment was more intended as commentary on the pervasiveness of leering. Of course, it's an unprovable conjecture - but it sure would explain a few things.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
I have a pet theory that the reason certain men are homophobic is because they're terrified that another man is looking at them the same way they look at women.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
In those past times of technological change, it was reasonably obvious where the puck was headed. However, I feel like that has been changing over the past decade or two. I have met countless young people who have been willing and able to
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
It makes the opinion hidden from the vast majority of visitors, except those who go out of their way to both have an account and showdead. It is in every appreciable way censorship via unaccountable mob. It's censorship in a way that
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Hunger knows no political party.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
If large swaths of people lose their jobs to AI, have no job prospects due to the presence of AI, and can't afford their next meal in the here and now, that is a recipe for civil unrest.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> "Stop the IP theft" - This feels like a cause pushed primarily by the 1%. Let's be realistic: 99% of people don't own patents and have little stake in strengthening IP protections. This is being screamed from the ro
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
While I disagree with your position for the reasons already given by others, it's quite ironic that in this thread about government censorship that your opinion is in the process of being censored by other HN users.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Quality isn't really an option anymore, because expensive no longer means quality, it means expensive-looking crap. If it's all crap anyway, why pay more?
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> Genuine question: if I train my model with copyleft material, how do you prove I did? Discovery.
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
This has been the case on nearly every open source and proprietary project, I have worked on. Most people do not care and will stick with the old default on old projects and use the new default on new projects. Occasionally, it stokes conv
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
One of the companies I worked for had self-hosted subversion hosting and accessing it required connecting to a VPN first. The IP address of that SVN server changed multiple times as we migrated between hardware and even VPN providers. It&#
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
Outside of the context of the culture war, it has gotten a project or two that I've seen to really think about what they should name their branches, and how they could better describe what kind of development happens in them. Branch na
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
PHP is a perfect example of how to undergo major transitions correctly. In the time that it took Python to go from Python 2 to 3, PHP underwent 5.2 -> 5.3 and 5.6 -> 7.0. 5.3 changed how you write PHP in a fundamental way by introduc
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
To someone who used to run a community, it is absolutely insane to me that on HN, users are given the tools to collectively censor people they disagree with, or even those who bring up inconvenient questions or truths. HN moderators have th
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
> Given the demographic this site selects for, it’s easy to forget how many dumb people there are in the world. Let's not go there. I could see an argument that Hacker News users are a bit more book smart than the average internet u
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
I will never forget Mercurial's postmortem on their experience with the Python 3 transition. They had very few kind words to say about the process. https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/01/13/mercurial
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
Erm, I actually agree with you. Blanket prohibition wouldn't work, and in any case isn't really viable, due to the amount of money in the status quo. I suppose I hope that future generations will consider social media in its curr
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
Fair. I'm not a compiler developer, so I'll defer to your expertise on that front. That being said, I suppose my ultimate wonder is how small a Zig implementation could possibly be, if code size and implementation simplicity was
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
> Not everyone has per-se bad experiences with social media. Not everyone who drinks alcohol is an alcoholic. Not everyone who gambles is a gambling addict. > Yes, it also tiggered some rage at some times, but that does normal social
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
An easy position to take when you have assurances that dissenting voices in this thread will have their rebuttals censored.
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The problem comes when his principals turn out to have blind spots. I feel like the refusal to close the network hole in the GPLv3 is a significant blind spot of his, and is a decision that has aged incredibly poorly in the age of cloud ser
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
> This really condescending. They are addicts and victims. Not everybody who drinks is an alcoholic. Not everybody who gambles is a gambling addict. I was quite specific about who I was talking about. > The reason forums of old were
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
Building an identity? Us vs them? What are you even talking about? If that was an attempt at trying to reframe this conversation using identity politics - politics you are well aware that HN doesn't handle very well - it was an awfu

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