the reason i want a terrible proof of concept for zstd length extension is because:
(1) it will be a hilarious argument in itself that zstd is overengineered garbage
(2) it will be a cute comparison to the RFC which is deeply unserious (7-level outline nesting in exactly one subtree, actively hinders comprehension)
(3) uses the same trick made famous in cpython's Racist Buffer Overflow
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also bc i'm gonna wait for someone to comment about how rust solves (3) and instead of arguing i will table their tables and say "yeah so i don't believe fb never saw this coming because poor baby yann collett can't write c code and it's actively obfuscated in the RFC". then i expect no one to reply but i will have successfully noided out people who thought zstd was good
zstd getting pulled in by linux was major fucking sus btw. arch broke my boot somehow by switching to only zstd one day. one the one hand i wish i'd saved that context, on the other hand wait i know arch linux is trying to kill me this would only prove what i concluded at the time which is that arch maintainers have no sense of professionalism, shame, class, etc
also don't post it on hacker news. if it goes on hacker news i'm gonna reply saying the best advice a senior engineer ever gave me was "stop reading hacker news man. you're better than that". chris coco who wrote the twitter server RPC layer and maintained our open source repos was telling me it was bad for me. he could see long before i learned that that shit was rotten
i started ironically using the term hacker reflexively but after the fucking propublica reply guy who thought he could browbeat me saying i'm not a "real hacker" i realized oh yeah this is just like the hypermasculine japanese reflexive particle "ore" (おれ) this is certified disco shit now
"i thot u were agender" that's bc there's no reason to express gender at rest. by focusing the parallax channel between my chi and my chakra i can temporarily wield ephemeral masculinities that would quickly become toxic without my extensive spirit training. like in the first volume of bleach when ichigo kurosaki just goes all ichigo kurosaki with his bankai
RETRACTION: the claim "there's no reason to express gender at rest" is a testable hypothesis. low-wattage gender channels are still mostly hype but some techniques are intriguing and worth further study
length extends your tarball from the middle
i have decided it is sheer coincidence that the word "middle" is used in both my above informal jargon as well as "middle out" from silicon valley
if i'm right and this is literally just obvious i'm gonna have to look into whether fb funded that show as propaganda for zstd
"middle out" is an impressively daring thing to make into the show's defining mantra tbh. you can't ~really "get the joke" without visualizing the extremely lurid shared description of a handjob conveyor belt between the two male characters, both of whom are earnestly and flawlessly playing up the rubber-ducking-in-a-shared-glass-whiteboard-panopticon vibe
i wish "mentioning penises" (admittedly it describes an orgy—it's kind of impressively subtle softcore erotica) was not political but:
(a) programmers are sometimes gay guys, and/or sometimes the most conservative man you've ever met
(b) i think it invites people who have some level of sex revulsion/etc to consider a literal orgy in terms of prefix trees. that's fucking SUBVERSIVE!!!!
it's also maybe the only time i've ever seen that much effort to describe how an epiphany feels like. setting aside that prefix trees are pretty poorly taught, misnamed (huffman did 1 fucking thing once. they're not his trees. MIT brained), and that most people would be much more familiar with "bottom-up"/"top-down" in terms of parsing recursive grammars.................
i consider the scene exceptionally subversive (despite featuring two autistic white males who will never read someone else's paper) because it seeks to undermine the (extremely unhealthy, possibly dysphoria-related) unexamined hand-washing behavior where specific mathematical constructs are actively sought as a distraction from frankly ocd-driven feeling of uncleanliness
i don't think it was "important" for me, because i actively fight my brain in siege warfare if i detect signs of that uncleanliness. and i mostly just defeat my brain with superior logical reasoning when it tries to go sex-repulsed i'm like awwww you're malfunctioning how cute.
i do wonder if "middle out" made anyone gay who:
- is very autistic
- scared to consider male attraction
@hipsterelectron humility really helps with prediction sometimes. that's why HN tends to suck imo.
