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rexicus··on Google Grapples with Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts
You can't discuss anything on the Internet anymore, everything is politicized ax-grinding by dishonest people fishing for clicks, personal celebrity, and Patreon money who just ruin the discussion.

Do real journalists still exist that can actually interview some of the parties involved, cut through the tweets and personality, and get both sides of this?

rexicus··on Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
Reddit is pretty bad without the RES extension, it's not surprising they want to change that.
rexicus··on On Working with White People – Part One
It sounds like one of his friends didn't get hired so he went on a rant confusing corporate culture with all white people.
rexicus··on Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat
It's not viable for those random 12-ish digit passwords most ISPs will use.
rexicus··on Firefox tracks users with Google Analytics in the add-on settings
Don't forget the "bug" where Google's supercookie was un-deletable https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008706
rexicus··on Show HN All US doctors ordered by their opioid prescription count
I believe he can have PAs under him writing prescriptions in his name also. For chronic pain I assume there's not much to evaluate but click "approve" in some medical information system.
rexicus··on Rust's 2017 roadmap, six months in
PyQt and PySide was exactly what I had in mind. It'll leak memory, segfault on load 1% of the time, segfault if you call unrelated methods in the wrong order, you'll randomly get QStrings and QExceptions instead of their Python equivalents, and it'll be impossible to debug.
rexicus··on Rust's 2017 roadmap, six months in
You might try the imgui/nuklear crates, dealing with generated bindings for something massive like Qt will never be pleasant.
rexicus··on Playing with ZFS encryption on Linux
It's a reasonable indirection, putting encryption into the file system is controversial, see NTFS for the pitfalls.
rexicus··on Verelox Wiped by Ex-Admin
There goes the 99.95% uptime guarantee.
rexicus··on Daryl Bem and the Replication Crisis
Why are these off-topic posts in every submission today, did Mozilla sponsor another outreach?
rexicus··on How Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web
Complain to their web host then, Cloudflare has nothing to do with this unless you're arguing there's a right to DDoS them.
rexicus··on I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemic happened
When people talk about legalizing drugs they usually mean "soft" drugs like weed/LSD/mushrooms and not opioids/benzos.
rexicus··on Young White America Is Haunted by a Crisis of Despair
I wonder if they're mistaking economic factors causing more drug deaths for the new and lethal Fentanyl-laced heroin on the streets.
rexicus··on Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
I don't think it's even close ethically to torturing a bear. You know people boil crabs alive all the time, right?
rexicus··on A startup is filling SF's empty luxury rentals
> quietly

when pretending your article isn't clickbait or can't work a scare quote in your headline

rexicus··on PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems
> I've never had issues with ALSA

You haven't been acquainted with asoundrc/dmix/alsamixer. ALSA is to Pulse as XFree86 is to Xorg, I feel no nostalgia for it at all.

rexicus··on Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down
It's never been worth using due to the slowdown and fragmentation it causes.
rexicus··on How 2K Killed Irrational Games
Tribes: Vengeance was awful. Irrational/Vivendi destroyed the franchise and back-stabbed an amazing modding community.
rexicus··on Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper
UMDF isn't for file systems.