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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 i…

I'm confused. Where do you think I'm backtracking?

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 …

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…

> 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 …

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 des…

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…

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 tha…

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 …

> 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 b…

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 L…

> 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 feat…

> 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 gam…

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 po…

> 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 o…

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, a…

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 deba…

> 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 di…

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.

> 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 interlo…

> 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 go…

Hacker News is also social media - at least by most reasonable definitions of social media. Should it also be banned?

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 …