Hacker News: IcyWindows

New comment by IcyWindows in "How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++"

IcyWindows — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:14:05 +0000

I see his reply as "people say Rust is safe, but Rust just pushes it under a rug and pretends it's safe when it's still all there - just in a dependency"

New comment by IcyWindows in "How to earn a billion dollars"

IcyWindows — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:54:36 +0000

So "enough of us" can take anything by forcing the asset to be valued at an artificially high value, force them to sell it for taxes, and then reduce the price down again to keep it ourselves?

New comment by IcyWindows in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

IcyWindows — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:18:38 +0000

Maybe a movie producer is a better analogy?

New comment by IcyWindows in "Ads in New York must now label AI-generated 'synthetic performers'"

IcyWindows — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:19:49 +0000

I'm not sure how paying a large corporation for generic stock photos is so much better.

Either way an actor isn't getting paid. It just prevents someone from generating it locally?

New comment by IcyWindows in "Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot"

IcyWindows — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:23:38 +0000

Citation needed

New comment by IcyWindows in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

IcyWindows — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:26:55 +0000

I should be able to have a different opinion without being a troll.

My point is to say many things have been replaced by technology over the years, but people do them as hobbies.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

IcyWindows — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:58:51 +0000

I don't see how this is different than things replaced decades ago:

Music is a human endeavor and musical recordings hurt musicians, bands, orchestras, etc. Especially those starting out.

New comment by IcyWindows in "1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug"

IcyWindows — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:56:01 +0000

Sure, given infinite time, they could diligently try to reproduce every bug across every version of any given product or open source library from a team at Microsoft.

However, if you have 1000s of reports a day, many of them vague with the person hoping it's close enough to a real issue to get paid, it makes sense to me personally that one needs prioritize active issues over tracking down when other issues were fixed.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims"

IcyWindows — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:44:36 +0000

It sucks to have your work made redundant, so it's hard to understand if their critism is founded or just sour grapes.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Microsoft Is Bricking the Perpetual Version of Office 2019 for Mac"

IcyWindows — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:30:34 +0000

Is that really correct?

Reading the page, the software needs an update due to Apple breaking it, but 2019 is out of support so Microsoft won't fix the breaking change.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Performance of Rust Language [pdf]"

IcyWindows — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:40:18 +0000

Do they even count towards safety if they aren't in release mode?

New comment by IcyWindows in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"

IcyWindows — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:33:13 +0000

Which "Other jurisdictions manage this"?

I have lived in places with more rules, but that meant we just didn't do it. We eventually gave up.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Don't Roll Your Own"

IcyWindows — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:28:05 +0000

I don't know. Someone above mentioned that don't like their browser's date picker. Maybe they are a "middle management figure", but probably not.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

IcyWindows — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:07:40 +0000

Which company doesn't do that?

New comment by IcyWindows in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

IcyWindows — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:37:13 +0000

I'm trained on protected works. Do I need to pay royalties?

New comment by IcyWindows in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

IcyWindows — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:35:08 +0000

One could argue most screenplays are derivative.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

IcyWindows — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:59:06 +0000

The video makes the argument that there is a lot of efficiency loss by converting to mechanical energy twice.

New comment by IcyWindows in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

IcyWindows — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:39:10 +0000

If you are a person that installs extensions from public sources, it doesn't matter what IDE you use.

If you don't (or can't) install extensions, it also doesn't matter which IDE you use.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Hawaii passes law bypassing Citizens United, governor signs it"

IcyWindows — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:13:37 +0000

Individuals should be able to get together and crowd fund a movie about a political figure without the government stopping them.

New comment by IcyWindows in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"

IcyWindows — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:33:44 +0000

Yeah, undefined behavior just means not defined in the specification.

I would argue that most languages only have one compiler so it doesn't matter what is in the specification.