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by _zagj 2y ago
I suspect the copycat effect is a large part of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting_contagion The media has historically, starting with Columbine, been extremely irresponsible when it comes to school shooti
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BTW the point of my submission was to highlight the anomaly that the number of school shootings (and victims) is paradoxically surging despite gun ownership declining and murder rates--while spiking after 2020--still being well-below histor
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by _zagj 2y ago
I understand it's an emotional topic, but the article is just dry data, and flagging it (along with half the comments in this thread) was unnecessary. I wouldn't even care that much if it weren't for the fact that HN clearly
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by _zagj 2y ago
Note that the surge in school shootings is despite a marginal secular decline in household gun ownership: https://www.vpc.org/studies/ownership.pdf
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How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present(k12ssdb.org)
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by _zagj 2y ago
> If the entire natural inclination of the language is to use exceptions, and you don't, beginning with C++17 and C++23 I've personally written libraries targeting C++20 that don't use exceptions. Again, error codes, and n
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by _zagj 2y ago
> And -fno-exceptions, while being de-facto standard e.g. in gamedev, still is not standard C++ So? The Linux kernel has freely relied on GCC-specific features for decades , effectively being written in "GCC C," with it only b
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by _zagj 2y ago
> It's really an "adopt a subset of C++" argument, but even that has its flaws. For instance, no one wants exceptions in the Linux kernel and for good reason Plenty of C++ codebases don't use exceptions at all, espec
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> > > > > David Howells did a patch set in 2018 (I believe) to clean up the C code in the kernel so it could be compiled with either C or C++; the patchset wasn't particularly big and mostly mechanical in nature, somethi
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by _zagj 2y ago
Github or some other third party would Hoover up whatever money could made from this. Also, a lot of projects can be surprisingly sloppy when it comes to this. (For example, treating MIT-licensed code as if it's public domain and negle
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by _zagj 2y ago
> about free speech, except it was trying to fight bots, hate speech > about free speech > fight hate speech Do you realize how absurd you sound?
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It ranks #1 on the "not having speech laws" index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_by_country
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by _zagj 2y ago
Thanks for illustrating how insane these people are.
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Only for the initial post.
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Rich to see SSC calling other people insane.
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> It's not enough to just depend on educating people - we can see that education hasn't been very effective, Are you referring to the anti-Israel protests on college campuses in the US?
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I've never done any Mac programming, yet that was my reaction when I heard about it. Why would you choose that name for anything C++-related?
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Can someone steelman Linus's: > ABSOLUTELY NO C++ in the kernel EVER. But Rust is totally fine. stance? It seems pretty absurd when you consider the closer similarity between C and C++ (and the more straight-forward migration path f
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by _zagj 2y ago
I'm surprised no one posted this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... Joel Spolsky was on the Excel team at MS, and was the lead on VBA. He prudently couches his doomsaying wi
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by _zagj 2y ago
constexpr "if" statements (C++20) are also a game-changer.
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Yeah, especially if the LLM was trained on my work.
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I got that, and the reason why I said "even if just as a hobby" is that part of the satisfaction many (including myself) get from their art comes from sharing it with other people, even without profit, and right now, poetry is pro
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by _zagj 2y ago
In the era of LLMs, it's difficult to think of an art form with a worse risk-to-reward ratio for pursuing--even if just as a hobby--than poetry. I know that sounds philistine to some, but even if the quality of LLM spam isn't up t
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by _zagj 2y ago
I get people are probably going to flag this like they did the other article ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871 ), probably more so out of concern for the trans optics (Ziz and many in her orbit are trans/no
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by _zagj 2y ago
The NYPost has an article about them: https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/us-news/killing-of-border-patr...
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I appreciate you at least responding, but it's clear that you were offended by me expressing skepticism about a specific person claiming to be a COVID long hauler, who directly profits from doing so, and who presents a purported symp
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It's interesting that merely asking someone to explain their justifications for something, without even outright criticizing it or Rust itself, is enough to net downvotes in Rust threads.
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> To this day I'm pretty sure that plan would have worked if we had actually executed it. It was a brilliant plan if I do say so myself. In fact, it was so brilliant that it convinced Richard Branson to acquire the company before
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by _zagj 2y ago
> 2. Doesn't make the mistake of 1-based indexing. Why is this a mistake? I've used 0-based languages primarily, but ergonomically, 1-based languages like Awk and Smalltalk are fine too, making some code slightly harder to writ
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Iran could possibly still be predominantly Zoroastrian today, and perhaps much of central Asian still Nestorian Christian, had this war not taken place or gone differently.

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