LexiMax

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by LexiMax 18d ago
Posts like these are why I am so incredibly glad that HN isn't the only place where the blog post is being discussed.
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by LexiMax 2mo ago
Good online communities have active and engaged moderation. That said, Reddit moderation seems stuck in a weird limbo where moderators have a lot of power on paper but completely ineffectual tooling to combat organized and systemic abuse. G
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by LexiMax 4mo ago
I'm confused. Where do you think I'm backtracking?
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by LexiMax 4mo ago
I'm not saying they don't exist. I'm saying that I don't encounter them in the wild. Certainly nowhere near as often as I encounter people who have a loud and obnoxious dislike of Rust. What I'm trying to say is t
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by LexiMax 4mo ago
The only time I've ever seen anything that could be considered Rust evangelist is when someone with a chip on their shoulder shoves a github issue or random comment link in my face. I certainly don't encounter them in the wild.
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> Because they are all the consequence of holding it wrong, avoiding RAII solutions. The reason why C++ is as popular as it is is in large part due to how easy it is to upgrade an existing C codebase in-place. Doing a complete RAII rewr
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
A long overdue feature. Though I do wonder what the chances are that the C subset of C++ will ever add this feature. I use my own homespun "scope exit" which runs a lambda in a destructor quite a bit, but every time I use it I wi
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
I'll admit that this use case didn't really occur to me, because the signal to noise ratio is so damn bad in matchmade games these days. If I want to play a game on voice call with strangers, I go to the community space first and
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
I'm already using Matrix for a number of open source communities. It's fine as far as it goes. However, from a community space point of view, it seems to be more similar to IRC than Discord. Much like an IRC server, there's
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
The friends list is inconsequential. It's for sending private messages to people you already know and met from a Discord server. Long running group chats are an aberration, people just start up micro-discords instead. And that is w
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> Discord does have some user capture, but nothing like twitter's More importantly, Discord's communities are silo'ed, private by default, and administered and moderated by human beings with almost no oversight from Discor
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
You can still find the essence of community on the traditional internet in places like invite-only discords, smaller mastodon instances, traditional forums, and spaces similar to Lobsters and Tildes. ...and not on Hacker News. Too many pse
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> But where are the AI features?? Gonna get left behind! Obviously vim doesn't need AI, but one feature I really wish vim had was native support for multiple cursors. It's the feature that lured me away to Sublime Text in the f
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> Game studios, and everyone that works in the games industry providing tooling for AAA studios. You know what else is common in the games industry? C# and NDA's. C# means that game development is no longer a C/C++ monoculture
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
C? Never. I feel like that ship has sailed, it's too primordial and tied to too many system ABI's to ever truly go away. I think we'll see a lot of Rust or Zig replacing certain popular C programs and libraries, but I don&
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> Compiler vendors are free to chose what ABI stability their C++ implementations provide. In theory. In practice the standards committee, consisting of compiler vendors and some of their users, shape the standard, and thus the standard
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
For reference, here's where Zig's documentation lives: https://ziglang.org/learn/ I remember when learning Zig, the documentation for the language itself was extensive, complete, and easily greppable due to b
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
I don't think you can claim a middle ground here, because I still largely agree with the sentiment: > The correct response when someone oversteps your stated boundaries is not debate. It is telling them to stop. There is no one to c
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> To me, these are all clear cases of "the correct response is not one that tries to persuade but that dismisses/ isolates". I believe it is possible to make an argument that is dismissive of them, but is persuasive to the
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
The point that we disagree on is what the shape of an appropriate and persuasive response would be. I suspect we might also disagree on who the target of persuasion should be.
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> For all of the reasons I've brought up already. If your goal is to convince someone of a position then the effort you put in isn't tightly coupled to the effort that your interlocutor put sin. If someone is demonstrating bad
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> If you assume off the bat that someone is explicitly acting in bad faith, then yes, it's true that engaging won't work. Writing a hitpiece with AI because your AI pull request got rejected seems to be the definition of bad fa
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
Hacker News is also social media - at least by most reasonable definitions of social media. Should it also be banned?
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
I believe the current status quo is the fault of oligarchs successfully fooling people into blaming scapegoats while we're all being robbed blind. Recognizing what is going on for what it is would be a good first step.
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
What makes you believe that a hypothetical American balkanization would go any better than...say...what happened in the balkans proper?
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by LexiMax 7mo ago
> Countries have the right to cultivate this feeling among their citizens. I disagree, because what seems to always be the logical next step is "My monoculture is superior, and deserves dominion above your monoculture, which deserve
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by LexiMax 8mo ago
> claim that only Zig and C++ have ever had a strategy to replace C What I actually said was that it was the second language I have seen to do so at any appreciable scale . I never claimed to know all languages. There was also an im
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by LexiMax 8mo ago
I do feel like allowing for in-place source upgrading was critical to C++'s early successes. However, I feel like this ultimately worked against C++, since it also wed the language to many of C's warts and footguns.
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by LexiMax 8mo ago
> C-source to D-source translation. I'm not so familiar with D, what is the state of this sort of feature? Is it a built-in tool, or are you talking about the ctod project I found? In most languages, I've found that source tra
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by LexiMax 8mo ago
> I wish there were something that could be done about it. I find it helpful to think of HN like one would any other social media site. There are things they could be doing to curtail these sorts of accounts. They have apparently cho

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