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2 maanden geledendiscuss

To be fair, gnu tar 1.31, 2019-01-02, added `--zstd` (and other automatic .zst support). So that support has been there for a good 7 years and 4 months at the time of writing.

akx

2 maanden geledendiscuss

> Typically, other archives like .tar.bz2 can be smaller. But those aren’t backwards-compatible!

Is there any point for (new) .bz2 archives in the era of Zstd?

akx

3 maanden geledendiscuss

What do you mean with "basically ensures that dependencies won't become managed properly"?

akx

4 maanden geledendiscuss

Sounds like you're not familiar with https://docs.astral.sh/uv/ ...

akx

4 maanden geledendiscuss

This doesn't do the same thing though, since it's not Unicode aware.

    >>> 'x\u2009   a'.split()
    ['x', 'a']
    # incorrect; in bytes mode, `\S` doesn't know about unicode whitespace
    >>> list(re.finditer(br'\S+', 'x\u2009   a'.encode()))
    [<re.Match object; span=(0, 4), match=b'x\xe2\x80\x89'>, <re.Match object; span=(7, 8), match=b'a'>]
    # correct, in unicode mode
    >>> list(re.finditer(r'\S+', 'x\u2009   a'))
    [<re.Match object; span=(0, 1), match='x'>, <re.Match object; span=(5, 6), match='a'>]

akx

5 maanden geledendiscuss

This inspired me to update my over-a-decade-old glitch generator https://akx.github.io/glitch2/ with camera input and a handful of new modules.

akx

6 maanden geledendiscuss

It's pretty good. And for once, a software-engineering-ly high-quality codebase, too!

All too often, new models' codebases are just a dump of code that installs half the universe in dependencies for no reason, etc.

akx

6 maanden geledendiscuss

If someone's curious about those particular constants, they're the PAL Y' matrix coefficients: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%E2%80%B2UV#SDTV_with_BT.470

akx

8 maanden geledendiscuss

You'd think there was a LUT you could apply to the digital copies during playback to make it look (more) like the original...

akx

2 jaar geledendiscuss

No filesystem is great in the lots-of-small-files case, partly simply due to syscall overhead.

There's a reason https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html , SquashFS, etc. are a thing, or why even Europe's fastestest supercomputer's admins admonish against lots of small files. https://docs.lumi-supercomputer.eu/storage/#about-the-number...

akx

8 jaar geledendiscuss

And the Clojure cookie (de)serializer doesn't even deal with all the fields the original does?

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