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iczeroon Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

Here is someone providing real criticism of Rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101733

Here is you claiming "Facts" on a troll post claiming to "criticize" Rust: https://x.com/filpizlo/status/2081765923757903940

iczeroon Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

Exactly what is your definition of "initiated mostly by" and why do you promote it as objective? It sure seems to me that Rust detractors see the word "Rust" and immediately spawn a flame war. You, of course, also seem awfully happy every time it happens.

iczeroon Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097320

You think this is reasonable? I have also seen strange people on twitter support Fil-C while claiming that Rust is a language for [slur]s. I suppose by your "reasoning" that these people directly represent you and your project?

iczeroon Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game

was it this? https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td

iczeroon Releasing Fjall 3.0

Fjall is an LSM-based key-value store written in Rust. It is pretty similar to RocksDB.

I do wish to note also that Marvin's blog posts are very informative and a great read. I would highly suggest reading them if you are at all interested in how Fjall or other LSM-based storage engines work.

iczeroon FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

I regularly enable YouTube subtitles. Almost always, they are a 100% verbatim transcription, excluding errors from auto-transcription. I am not annoyed in the slightest, and in fact I very much prefer that they are verbatim.

If you are too slow at reading subtitles, you can either slow down the video or train yourself to read faster. Or you can just disable the subtitles.

iczeroon Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)

Software engineering is not just about building new things. I'd propose that by far the majority of the time of software engineers is spent on maintenance, bug fixing, minor incremental improvements, etc. Almost all software is either sold directly as a service or as a product with a servicing agreement.

> most software development is creating an asset that pays off over time

This is a fantasy.

iczeroon Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer

Isn't this just simulated annealing in hardware attached to a grandiose restatement of the second law of thermodynamics?

iczeroon Libogc (Wii homebrew library) discovered to contain code stolen from RTEMS

Your code is my code actually. I wrote all of it. Where's the harm?

iczeroon YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients

Didn't the RIAA completely ruin their reputation (along with the other AAs) by doing that? Now it seems like most people just equate them with a huge pile of lawyers in suits who care not about art.

iczeroon Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers

> We have nukes and a massive air force.

> YC is funding weapon manufacturers lol. Where are the ethics there?

Circular reasoning? The reason we have a massive and more importantly effective air force is because weapons development occurred. It would not take very long at all for China to surpass the US in terms of air effectiveness if the US stopped working on defense projects.

iczeroon YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info

Have you considered that getting someone arrested after you ruin a major source of their income is potentially not the most polite thing to do?

iczeroon Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

How would I respond at my job if someone openly antagonized my project(s) and completely refused to work with me? Probably complain to management.

iczeroon Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

Where is an example of this "false advertising"?

iczeroon Hector Martin: "Behold, a maintainer sabotaging the Rust for Linux project"

I have a hard time believing that you wouldn't be annoyed if some almost completely unrelated maintainer hard NACKs your patch and every suggestion you offer just because they hold a grudge against the language you used.

iczeroon Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

The person who quit wrote the Linux graphics driver for Apple M-series GPUs in Rust.

edit: I may have gotten some things confused, please see below

iczeroon Servo's progress in 2024

For (2), I believe they want to interact with the DOM directly (via whatever language the rest of the app is written in) without needing to go through JavaScript.

iczeroon What really happens inside a dating app

have you considered that dating apps suck for literally everyone and everybody should leave them?

iczeroon OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_... (Gödel's incompleteness theorems) applies here

iczeroon Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

let me just apply my super proprietary machine learning architecture... ah yes it's done, behold, I can generate 3.69 trillion frames per second, because I compressed each frame to a single bit and that's how fast the CPU's memory bus is

iczeroon Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)

oh great so you centralize even harder and that will fix everything?

iczeroon Traceroute Isn't Real

> And yeah it's not perfect. Stop making perfect the enemy of good.

iczeroon Nyxpsi – A Next-Gen Network Protocol for Extreme Packet Loss

They list their email as:

> For more information or to contact us open a PR or email us at nyxpsi@skill-issue.dev

This sounds to me like a troll. In any case, I don't think blatantly advertising your lack of expertise in networking is a good way of improving one's portfolio.

iczeroon Nyxpsi – A Next-Gen Network Protocol for Extreme Packet Loss

Hi, respectfully, you do not appear to understand how networking works.

> https://github.com/nyxpsi/nyxpsi/blob/bbe84472aa2f92e1e82103...

This is not how you "simulate packet loss". You are not "dropping TCP packets". You are never giving your data to the TCP stack in the first place.

UDP is incomparable to TCP. Your protocol is incomparable to TCP. Your entire benchmark is misguided and quite frankly irrelevant.

As far as I can tell, absolutely no attempt is made whatsoever to retransmit lost packets. Any sporadic failure (for example, wifi dropout for 5 seconds) will result in catastrophic data loss. I do not see any connection logic, so your protocol cannot distinguish between connections other than hoping that ports are never reused.

Have you considered spending less time on branding and more time on technical matters? Or was this supposed to be a troll?

edit: There's no congestion control nor pacing. Every packet is sent as fast as possible. The "protocol" is entirely incapable of streaming operation, and hence message order is not even considered. The entire project is just a thin wrapper over the raptorq crate. Why even bother comparing this to TCP?

iczeroon The New Internet

> centralization is bad except when we do it

TL;DR

iczeroon The New Internet

Tailscale doesn't even try to hide their MP or DP traffic. Last I checked, management was plain https and data was plain wireguard.

iczeroon Copying is the way design works (2020)

It's bad in relative terms because better ideas cannot be implemented.

iczeroon Copying is the way design works (2020)

Was it only for the tour? Was it actually $1M, or did it later increase in value? Did Xerox value a strategic relationship? "A whole load of ideas" seems worth more than $1M to me, especially if you're Xerox back then.

iczeroon Copying is the way design works (2020)

Let's say someone patents, idk, Client-Side Decoration (CSD). People like it, surely, because people use it. Unfortunately, there is drastically reduced space to innovate because nobody else can use that idea anymore. Expecting the patent holder to innovate has proven to be a bad assumption in part because IPR means they have no competition in that space anyways. The idea stays bad because nobody else can make it better.

iczeroon Copying is the way design works (2020)

> There was no theft.

I didn't know that touring somewhere meant you could copy all their designs. Was that explicitly stated?