LexiMax

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I don't think you even need to go as far as his interpersonal skills. IMHO The fact that the GPLv3 (not the AGPLv3) didn't close the network hole should've been proof enough. If you care about user freedom, the fact that the
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> I would absolutely call it good given the volume of comments that flow through here. That's part of the problem. A place this large, this public, and with this little amount of trust isn't really a community. It's the
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It's good that Hacker News has some form of human moderation, which is a lot more than what you can say about a lot of social media spaces. I wouldn't necessarily call it good, however. HN is absolutely teeming with bad-faith thr
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Social media optimizes for engagement. Maybe some folks are into that...or addicted to it...but I remember a time before engagement was hyper-incentivized, where hanging out someplace on the internet was because you liked the people or the
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> Do you have any evidence that the cancer is a type that would have been caught by a screening regime currently in place in other countries which is not in place in the US? Do you have any evidence that it wasn't? I honestly don&#x
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To me, the fact that Zig has spent so long in development disqualifies it as being a "rewrite of C." To be clear, I really like Zig. But C is also a relatively simple language to both understand and implement because it doesn&#x2
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You don't have to wonder. I have been hearing about several recent church schisms over certain folks thinking the church had become too accepting. This is literally an example of individuals choosing their religion based on their own
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> Things have died down now, doesn't mean it didn't happen. I have some bad news for you. In the early 90's, C++ _was_ that language. Not only that, but at the time a lot of the reactionary criticisms of C++ by annoyed C
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> When are we going to actually look at these issues dispassionately and realize that religion itself is the problem? Because it's not. I've been interrogating this sort of question for most of my life. I am a queer agnostic wh
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Autotools is far too pessimistic, but there are still considerable differences between different compiling environments. Tooling like CMake will always be necessary unless you are only targeting unix and your dependency graph isn't te
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
Our current crop of leaders are, to quote Succession, not serious people. You could point to many examples why, but I don't think there's a better example of this than how China managed to utterly snooker the west when they tried
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> Where is the party of small government? "Small government" in all its forms and variations is smoke. If you hear someone who says they desire small government, they are either lying to your face because they want their despot
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16 years is a bit of an under-estimate. I think the first popular language with this form of declaration was Pascal. var foo: char; Go was developed by many of the minds behind C, and inertia would have led them to C-style
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> The C++ language has evolved quickly, with a release every three years or so. There was a revival of C++ starting with C++11 and ending around the era of C++17. It was, frankly, great. However, a few things happened around and since
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In my experience, the loudest critics of Rust I have heard are actually seasoned C and C++ developers who are incredibly good at one or both languages, but know almost nothing outside it. On one hand, C++ is an incredibly complicated langua
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
I find it much more likely that Valve enables Secure Boot on their Steam hardware. I imagine that if this happens, it will be followed by popular Linux distros finally becoming serious about their Secure Boot implementations, instead of sim
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> This is the pattern behind all UK privatisation. Foreign countries and shareholders benefited hugely, while prices of essential services exploded, and service quality degraded. No kidding. But of course, never underestimate the motivat
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I actually think that there were two possible outcomes. One of them involved killing the filibuster. The other was widespread unrest from all corners of the United States - the kind that that comes from all political alignments, the kind t
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Anecdotally, I don't think that this is widely understood by people who use crypto for illicit purposes, which isn't exactly uncommon.
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Battlefield 6 might never run on the average Linux desktop, but I could see a future where it would run on Steam hardware in an end-to-end Secure Boot environment. Gamers don't like playing with cheaters.
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> It's far more plausible that the popularity owes to its viral success as a "glue" language in data analysis and "scientific" applications I actually agree with you on this point. It's just that I believe
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> Agree in some ways. Still, discussing the nitty gritty is superfluous, the important underlying message you are making is more existential. It's an important conversation to have. I remember a particular developer...I'll be h
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I always like to point out that "Open Source" was a deliberate watering-down of the moralizing messaging of Free Software to try and sell businesses on the benefits of developing software in the open. > We realized it was time
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This is America. If you interfere with the business model of a large company, they'll eventually figure out something to criminally charge you with. Felony contempt of business model, and all that.
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Thank you for picking up on that nuance. I actually think that gamified voting systems are pretty decent at content aggregation. I regularly poach stories from HN for discussion in other, less dysfunctional communities. HN still has a pro
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> Biases towards scientific and biological accuracy? Why do you care so much about someone's biological gender? Seriously, it comes off with the same sort of creepy vibes as someone who cares way too much about someone's skin c
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When there's a car crash, somebody's got to put out the traffic cones.
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I find it difficult to argue with its success. Python underwent one of the most poorly conceived backwards incompatible version updates of any language. I believe that it did irreparable damage to Python's position as an application m
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I mean...this thread joins the dozens of others in recent memory that has turned into a war-zone, filled with disposable throwaway accounts and bad faith downvoting that will almost certainly go unpunished. Considering the kind of money beh
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
> Many of the comments here are disappointing Disappointing? This is what Hacker News has been for at least a decade. Why would you expect any better?

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