hitekker

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by hitekker 9d ago
You’re absolutely right!
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by hitekker 10d ago
DSA is more a young person thing. This is more well-off white boomer archetype, stuck in yesterday's fads
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by hitekker 10d ago
> the page reads like an open source “We’re finished, we’re tired.” rather than the razzmatazz of a Microsoft release. The vibe selects the audience perhaps. People who are tired and just want to finish their work like the first style. P
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by hitekker 10d ago
> Suharto (who was put into power by the US) Suharto was responsible for his own rise. He took money and intel from wherever he liked and was basically an independent & ruthless strongman. Neither he nor other Indonesians need to be
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by hitekker 12d ago
Many feel X, or gating access to X, is fundamentally unjust, superseding the guidelines. Feeling injustice converts the loss into a claim: "I didn't just lose free access, we're owed free access." The GP questioned wh
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by hitekker 12d ago
Agreed, though the GP's characterization likely stems from pre-2020 Facebook trying to help solve problems outside of its scope. To quote Zuckerberg: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-say
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by hitekker 18d ago
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/01/11/police-... Since 2016, 2 out of 3 US officers supported body cameras. That percentage increases after uptake https://ircommons.uwf.edu&#x2F
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by hitekker 20d ago
It’s a flattering phrase, not a thoughtful one. It gives the illusion of higher level thinking that’s beyond our actual ability. The phrase also justifies writing without thinking, i.e. most internet comments. The best thinkers I know mos
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by hitekker 24d ago
Sounds like good news, with a great site UI. Particularly the slow moving background
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by hitekker 1mo ago
That's odd; I've only heard good things about the Java team at Oracle. Is there a public article or insider knowledge that differs?
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by hitekker 1mo ago
I thought MySQL wasn't led badly? Compared to its forks
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by hitekker 1mo ago
Reads a bit like an elevated resentment fantasy. A mostly ethical narrator narrating his friend’s morally deserved doom that keeps the narrator’s own hands mostly clean. And with the narrator holding a medal at the end. That’s cathartic for
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by hitekker 1mo ago
Some people here seem to identify with that 10%.
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by hitekker 1mo ago
On a meta level, this thread shows how rejecting boring leads to bickering. Our natural default as engineers is to choose exciting tech that invites debate. At scale, across many choices, those debates become drama. For some people, that dr
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by hitekker 1mo ago
My friend on Bluesky openly said he wanted Twitter gone and he’s been hoping it would die. He’s also a big fan of reporting people on the app. I’m not put off by his desires but I’m mildly surprised you’re denying him and others existence.
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by hitekker 2mo ago
> GCs are slow, memory hungry and, generally, a waste of time. There's no need to get upset. The person you're replying to is a language expert; they're not tearing you down. GCs have actually advanced quite a bit in the l
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by hitekker 2mo ago
Your logic is sound. The GP aimed to paint you as a fool because he apparently identifies with Codeberg and is unhappy that you’ve raised an objection he can’t easily dismiss.
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by hitekker 2mo ago
IIRC, ralfj was insinuating that Java was memory unsafe and arguing about it with experts on HN not too long ago. But I think he was coming off hot from the T-spec debacle so I understand it as him wanting to blow off steam. The most toxic
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by hitekker 2mo ago
Andrew Kelley is a strong advocate for the LGBTQ and has railed against ICE in Minnesota. I’ve only heard the woke/anti woke framing from Lunduke on the right, and a few Rust fanatics on the left. Both parties and their sympathizers wa
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by hitekker 2mo ago
I stopped paying for Kagi after ~2 years. Search quality worsened over time; my brother and I would trade screenshots/complaints of irrelevant results for basic keywords. International searches were even more fruitless. Also, I felt Ka
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by hitekker 3mo ago
Agreed. I’ll also make an observation based on this thread: the idea of computation as a fundamental law is most believable (and desirable) to people who like computers and want to reduce reality to a computer. The belief is like a cheat co
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by hitekker 3mo ago
IIRC, one of the highest profile North Korean defectors said that Jimmy Carter's interference in Bill Clinton's Korea strategy basically gave North Korea another decade to build an atom bomb. After that regime got the bomb, they b
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by hitekker 3mo ago
If he had left that coupling at 1.0, I’d agree that would be careless. But he didn’t; that one expedient choice was reversed before mass adoption. IMHO, you may be confusing “care” for legibility. The creator(s) made a choice that you disag
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by hitekker 3mo ago
But couldn’t they have lived in Seattle before moving? I don’t follow your logic.
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by hitekker 3mo ago
Using local labels to communicate to an (inter)national audience is a bit foolish, I think. In SF, we have a wealthy clique who are locally labeled as “progressives” and who are also contradictorily against new housing. They even veto’d bu
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by hitekker 3mo ago
It’s ironic to say the GP overreached and then accuse him of injecting an agenda. Particularly on a blogpost that leans towards the GPs understanding, not yours.
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by hitekker 3mo ago
> When he gets home at night, he argues for hours on Italian forums about which type of oven is best. The Italian forums are, to him, the ultimate source of oven-truth. This detail, among several others, is subtle but deeply fateful.
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by hitekker 3mo ago
The GP (Jonathan Pollard) has been using the “Xe” pronouns on other people since about 2015. I think he’s also edited/argued for unusual pronouns on Wikipedia as late as 2025. I don’t think he’s ever explained his intentions with &quot
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by hitekker 3mo ago
An adorable widget. I believe it’s inspired by the “I Spy” books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spy_(book_series)
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by hitekker 3mo ago
You’ve misinterpreted “bonkers” to mean “idiotic”. That failure of charity is on you, not the GP.

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