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New comment by vegai_ in "WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of documents disappear"

vegai_ — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:21:18 +0000

> It is absolutely not a demand that we trample the rights of people whose ideas we don't like.

Good, because that's not what I'm advocating. I'm not advocating an act of destroying Wikileaks, I'm advocating for it getting destroyed by omitting active support to it.

New comment by vegai_ in "WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of documents disappear"

vegai_ — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:23:38 +0000

Completely irrelevant. The relevant thing is that the West need not tolerate pro-Russia entities, especially in these times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Funding them would be completely ludicrous, as smart as sawing the branch you're sitting on.

New comment by vegai_ in "IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up"

vegai_ — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:29:48 +0000

Irssi's UX is better than that of any other chat software, though. Why it hasn't been replicated for things like XMPP and Matrix is probably due to the more difficult and featureful state transitions of those protocols.

New comment by vegai_ in "Mastodon: A Social Media Platform Dominated by Pedophiles and Child Porn"

vegai_ — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:21:14 +0000

I hope they use Mastodon. Because then it'll be trivial for authorities to find out and seize the offending server and probably most of the users if it's part of the global federation.

New comment by vegai_ in "Easy Interfaces with Zig 0.10"

vegai_ — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:05:35 +0000

>Thinking in OOP terms in, say, Java is great.

How did you interpret this statement?

New comment by vegai_ in "Easy Interfaces with Zig 0.10"

vegai_ — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:33:25 +0000

Heh. I'm sure they thought and worked on others things too, but many focused on it, yes.

New comment by vegai_ in "Easy Interfaces with Zig 0.10"

vegai_ — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:29:24 +0000

Sorry for misunderstanding the mood and context. In context of Zig, this makes a lot of sense, making my calls for humility premature and tad ironic.

New comment by vegai_ in "Easy Interfaces with Zig 0.10"

vegai_ — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:27:34 +0000

Well, you've met one now, so you can update that assumption. And also if you look higher up this thread, the author of this article takes it seriously as well. So that's two already in a pretty short time!

New comment by vegai_ in "Easy Interfaces with Zig 0.10"

vegai_ — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:54:06 +0000

/s, right?

New comment by vegai_ in "Easy Interfaces with Zig 0.10"

vegai_ — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:51:25 +0000

> If you had that reaction, you might want to take some time to explicitly free your thought process from OOP-isms.

If you have this reaction, perhaps you should take a humility lesson before claiming that a few syntax tricks is all it takes to outsmart people who spent their entire university careers thinking about these problems.

New comment by vegai_ in "KDE beats macOS"

vegai_ — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:32:36 +0000

That's a bit silly. I was a Linux user from 1996 to 2015ish, then went to use macbooks almost exclusively. Apple's UI immediately made sense, even if it was remains tad unoptimal for serious use, when comparing to UX masterpieces like i3 and sway.

KDE has always been bit of an awkward horror, and I've given it a shot now and then for their whole existence. The latest incarnation, Plasma, is quite a lot better than it used to be, granted.

New comment by vegai_ in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"

vegai_ — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:22:07 +0000

Yeah, I was just thinking few days ago how absurdly large Twitter's workforce seemed to be.

New comment by vegai_ in "Exploring Mastodon"

vegai_ — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:27:57 +0000

How is following someone on another server with Mastodon difficult? Or is that some sort of a meme now?

New comment by vegai_ in "[dead]"

vegai_ — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:14:06 +0000

With this level of cluelessness, we have to be extra thankful that he cannot become president of USA.

Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin admits interfering in US elections

vegai_ — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:36:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/07/putin-ally-yevgeny-prigozhin-admits-interfering-in-us-elections

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33507154

Points: 6

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New comment by vegai_ in "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun"

vegai_ — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:26:55 +0000

Ideally the society where the companies operate in should provide the safety rails, thus allowing the company to do whatever it legally can to maximize profits.

But that wouldn't be the crony capitalism that we're stuck with now. Also, things have been moving too fast for a long time, making it nearly impossible for governments to keep up.

New comment by vegai_ in "Why Lisp?"

vegai_ — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 08:12:12 +0000

>After writing Lisp there is just something wrong about how most languages have an additional step in order to generate the AST. Why?

Because it's possible to have a lot better representations of computer code for humans than AST.

New comment by vegai_ in "Ask HN: What best lighter (w flint) keep on even on wet?"

vegai_ — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:32:31 +0000

If you like overexpensive nordic gadgets, check out https://kaarilighters.com/

I haven't tried these myself, as I can get 10 packs of matches with 1/50 of the price of one of these...

New comment by vegai_ in "Systemd 252"

vegai_ — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:08:39 +0000

>Hey, someone rediscovered xinetd

With a much better piece of software, exactly.

New comment by vegai_ in "“There Seem to be 10 managers for every one dev at Twitter” – Elon"

vegai_ — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:04:05 +0000

Do we know how he defines "dubious reasons" there?