HN user

up2isomorphism

367 karma

Distributed system software and low-latency system

Posts11
Comments636
View on HN

It depends on how inequalities is defined. But from the wealth distribution point of view, today’s wealth distribution skews much more towards the top. Although the lowest living standards improve thanks to the technology advancement.

The author takes a very benchmark focus on this topic which only says part of the story particularly for complex systems. Noticed that there are a number of very similar interface that exist on other platform like windows long before io_uring, but that does make Linux’s I/O system worse or slow than these platforms. A fast server is likely fast in either multiplexing or async API if implemented correctly in almost all cases.

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

The comment under this kind of post is unreadable now. Yeah, probably with 100B you can hire anybody to call something "a beast".

I don’t think either zig or rust can replace C, no matter how much this kind of work. They will of course improve its own language. The only language that can replace C is a language is as simple as C. None of them are simple language.

Without free market and fair level of competition, no matter how much or how you tax, the richest portion will always end up paying little. Because there are hundreds of ways to make the tax law favor these people, and every time you change, it is the working class who pays them.