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by ben0x539 12y ago
How is it a scam? People gave her money to post videos about video games, she is posting videos about video games. Are you saying she's not enthusiastic enough about the video games she's calling out to deserve the money people de
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by ben0x539 12y ago
This is a shitty gamergate meme and has no basis in reality. The evil "women in gaming" conspiracy would have to be very, very well organized to fabricate the amount of false flag abuse they're constantly subjecting themselve
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by ben0x539 12y ago
From the beginning it has been an astroturfing op "orchestrated" by some geniuses at 4chan. An irc channel central to the movement is named after a sexist catchphrase from the rant of the bitter ex-boyfriend of their first target.
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by ben0x539 12y ago
A death threat doesn't become less real by not being followed through it, otherwise it'd be called murder, not death threat.
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by ben0x539 12y ago
The "side" of this "debate" that is receiving death threats is very deserving of attention (to the extent they want it) and sympathy, and has no lack of credibility.
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by ben0x539 12y ago
Yeah, that's not what happened. It's well documented that the whole thing started as focused harassment of Zoe Quinn. Now other women are being harassed. The effects of the campaign is that women are withdrawing from publishing in
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by ben0x539 12y ago
It's a bunch of things thrown together in a carefully calculated scheme to cover up an organized harassment campaign targeting women in the videogames industry . I appreciate that there's some decent people getting mixed up in a
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by ben0x539 12y ago
The common rules on how to deal with trolls or stalkers work a lot better if you're the middle class white male who got online death threats once in his life, and not the women who get them every day backed by an organized harassment c
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by ben0x539 12y ago
More like people are reaching to paint her as not delivering. The most on-point criticism of her work I've heard is that it's a bit entry-level, but what can you do when even entry-level media critique is too harsh for your audien
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by ben0x539 12y ago
It's easy for people who aren't being targeted for harassment to ignore it, but I think we owe it to those who are to not ignore it.
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by ben0x539 12y ago
I think calling it "corrupted by misogyny" is a bit misleading. As far as I can tell, it is as pure and uncompromising in its misogyny as ever, the journalism thing has been a smokescreen from the beginning.
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by ben0x539 12y ago
I agree, and am cautiously optimistic that people will have more options in or close to C++'s niche in the future. My comment was made with regards to the (surely significant?) market share of people who opted for C++ in the past and a
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by ben0x539 12y ago
Will it? As I understand it people can pay $0.01 and just get everything else and no steam keys.
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by ben0x539 12y ago
I think people who are invested in C++ now won't suddenly stop being invested in it by the time C++17 rolls around.
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by ben0x539 12y ago
Isn't it easier to have the parent print the error message by passing yet another pipe to the child that closes on exec and can be used to pass up errno?
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by ben0x539 12y ago
I'm really not happy with how eager people are to go "well, that's just the internet, it's a wider problem, not our problem". Yes it is their problem, because it affects their community and the people they work with
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by ben0x539 12y ago
Yes, he makes sure to condemn all such threats, but then he goes on to put the blame with them on Poettering. He doesn't say "Nobody deserves such threats, I condemn all such threats, and I stand with Poettering against them even
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by ben0x539 12y ago
Okay, so because Lennart Poettering blocked some dude on a social network for ranting about how terrible systemd is, Poettering deserves death threats and it's all his own fault. Got it. All this post really says is "maybe the way
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by ben0x539 12y ago
That only works if the lifetime of a resource is a lexical region, right?
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by ben0x539 12y ago
I wouldn't really consider the whole ownership thing or specifically the mechanism that inserts destructor calls at the logical end of a value's lifetime part of the borrow checker either, but I dunno how the implementation is lai
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by ben0x539 12y ago
Well, really the default is passing trivial implicitly-copyable values like integers. You probably don't want to write a & every time you pass an i32 to a function, so that sort of thing gets the default just-passing-bytes-around s
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by ben0x539 12y ago
To be fair, resource disposal is sometimes "delegated" to runtime. But it's always a local concern, like a reference counter for a shared resource, or a mutable `Option<R>` value that can have the R resource taken out o
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by ben0x539 12y ago
Yeah, if you hold on to the thing in your scope, it won't go out of scope and won't be disposed of.
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by ben0x539 12y ago
One reason is probably emulating the way RAII works in C++, and allowing "low level" code to use idioms like { let _lock = acquire_lock(); use_resource(); } // lock is released here, wh
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by ben0x539 12y ago
Optimizing later, after three major releases and a ton of minor ones, and after getting deployed basically everywhere, seems to be working out pretty well for them though?
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by ben0x539 12y ago
It's certainly a problem in a wider scope than just software development, and not really inherent to software development at all, but I think it manifests in open source communities in a particularly insidious way. Everybody thinks the
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by ben0x539 12y ago
"Why doesn't he address all other evils in the world before the one I feel defensive about? The hypocrite!" It's probably because he specifically works in and identifies with the larger open source community, and because
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by ben0x539 12y ago
I don't think he's calling everyone an asshole or decrying all open source communities. He's saying assholes exist, and pointing out systemic reasons for why they're attracted and tolerated and why they're particula
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by ben0x539 12y ago
> (and taking it to a personal level such as killing people, thats just insane) It's not "insane". It's a thing people do because they get the impression that it's socially acceptable, because see, everybody symp
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by ben0x539 12y ago
It's not suddenly somehow his fault that there's people out there who take code being posted to the internet as a reason to harass and threaten someone, even if he did post that code to the internet by himself. The community ought

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