LexiMax

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by LexiMax 1y ago
> Here on HN bothsidesism is a shibboleth that denotes "I'm a Serious Commenter and not a Partisan Hack". HN users don't necessarily do that because they want to. They might do it as a pre-emptive defense mechanism a
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> Hacker News would be much better if all new accounts were banned by default until they were vouched for by users and earned a minimum amount of karma. Personally, I prefer the model used by lobsters and Tildes where you have to be invi
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The biggest trick HN ever pulled was convincing people that this place was somehow uniquely resistant to systemic vote gamification.
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Comfortable? I'd call that the best case scenario. If they treated us like dogs they'd already be better stewards of humanity than we are.
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I strongly suspect future generations are going to look back on the age of trying to cram the entire world into one of several shared social spaces and say "What were those idiots thinking?"
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I would agree with you, but mmaunder has a registration date of 2007 and has a bio filled out with easily-verifiable information. ...is what a reasonable argument against would sound like. But in truth, nobody really knows who is running t
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I'm not on bluesky myself, but is it weird that I am actually a little bit relieved by your description? Personally, I think it's generally a bad thing when a social space tries to be all things to all people.
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It's the immigrants' fault. No wait, it's because of the queers. Surely it's because of women. Would you believe it's the socialists fault? Gangs? Non-Christians? Welfare Queens? China? The American People as a
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> The alternative is to be like 4chan, though 4chan's problem isn't the lack of a voting system, the problem comes from the complete anonymity of its users, the lack of friction to post, and the near complete lack of moderation
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> That is, nobody perceives, say, "the silver searcher" as being some sort of nefarious plot to re-write grep, but they did with ripgrep, even though that's not what it is trying to do. I have a suspicion as to why this pe
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I think it's a natural outgrowth of what Linux is. Linux is just a kernel - you need to ship your own userland with it. Therefore, early distros had to assemble an entire OS around this newfangled kernel from bits and pieces, and thos
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I think "fixing distro packaging" is more apropos. In a past life, I remember having to juggle third-party repositories in order to get very specific versions of various services, which resulted in more than few instances of hair-
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> Rust doesn't have this kind of industry wide push, even in OSes where it is being embraced like Windows and Android, note that it isn't being pushed as yet another way to write userspace applications, rather low level OS serv
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I'm probably a little younger than you, so it's likely a generational thing. I also notice it's a lot more pervasive in internet-driven watercoolers than face to face.
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> Back to the point I think not. You already gave away which direction you were intending to steer the conversation and the conclusion you were intending to eventually draw. Next time, perhaps practice more patience before you jump the
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The grandparent comment isn't "against AI" - it's against low-effort participation. When you paste raw AI output without even reading it critically, you're essentially saying "I care so little about this discus
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> How effectively China can halt sales to the US is debatable. Every intermediary or degree of separation introduced raises the price as each link in the chain demands their slice of the action. They might not be able to stop sales, but
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What would be your definition of meaningful climate activism against rare earth elements? Or is this one of those "there is no ethical consumption, therefore everyone is a hypocrite and nobody can criticize anyone over anything" t
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Gotcha hypocrisy might be a really cheap thing to point out, but they're not wrong. I have noticed my fair share of Rust Derangement Syndrome in C++ spaces that seems completely outsized from the series of microaggressions that they ev
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As an outsider, I don't really see Rust having done anything different recently than they weren't doing from the start. What seems to have changed in recent years is the buy-in from corporations that seemingly see value in its pro
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Being a C++ developer and trafficking mostly in C++ spaces, there is a phenomenon I've noticed that I've taken to calling Rust Derangement Syndrome. It's where C and C++ developers basically make Rust the butt of every joke,
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What a weird time to find out that most of my centrist and conservative friends are actually far left because they mostly agree with such an assessment. Then again, I suppose definitions can differ. Maybe you have a set of principles and b
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There is nothing hypocritical about being okay with the idea of moderation in the abstract while disagreeing with a specific implementation of it.
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Platforms like Discord give their moderators much more power and discretion, while removing mechanisms for users for protest them. Despite this, Discord largely succeeds in facilitating social spaces for its users. The biggest reason why t
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> They run it like a propaganda outlet, only allow approved thought from approved commenters, and ban anyone who steps out of line with the mods. When almost any community is particular about who it lets in and who it doesn't let in
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> But with Reddit, it's the only forum left (for any number of broad and narrow topics) so you're either there or nowhere. Reddit wasn't even that good as a community space in the first place. It was a content aggregator w
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I think that was the idea, but in practice I think that China successfully outmaneuvered the United States by taking advantage of the short-sighted greed of our businesses leaders. They are now the manufacturing capital of the world, and ou
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There's actually conspiracy theories that are at the very least adjacent to this world view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution It's the idea that fraudulent elections in former Soviet states wer
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Apropos what?
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While I agree with you, I would hesitate to be throwing stones from the glass house that is Hacker News. This place also suffers from some pretty severe systemic issues that are inherent to any site that delegates moderation responsibilitie

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