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
@hipsterelectron humility really helps with prediction sometimes. that's why HN tends to suck imo.
