leotaku

From what I've seen the likelihood of triggering a pathological case with real-world non-malicious data is actually low enough to be ignored, given that the rolling hash function is well-crafted. I do agree that crafting malicious data to break deduplication in Dolt should be relatively easy, but I do not see how this could lead to DOS on e.g. a hosted Dolt platform. If I understand correctly, your proposed attack would only affect the rate of deduplication and by extension disk space used, and I would expect a hosted Dolt platform to have strict disk-space limits or use storage-based billing.

Some CDC implementations I have seen use a desired "average" chunk size value in addition to a minimum and maximum value. If the chunk exceeds the desired average size, the test for recognizing a byte sequence as a stop becomes more forgiving. Other solutions also retry previously processed sequences using the simpler threshold.

However, from what I've seen, these methods generally come at the cost of deduplication and/or speed. The most reliable method to avoid pathological cases seems to just be setting the min/max chunk size to a low/high enough value respectively.

If you're talking in a purely theoretical sense, I would assume that the possibility of changes affecting non-local chunks is inherent to CDC. With well-chosen parameters the likelihood of any but the closest chunks being affected just becomes low enough to be negligible.

I don't know about BuildKit and `docker buildx`, but I've been using an approach similar to what is outlined in paragraph two to generate static executables for one of my projects.

I use a multistage build to generate a podman/docker image that contains all my build artifacts and then just copy them out of the container onto my host system. What advantages would there be in using BuildKit for this sort of thing?

I remember introducing a middle schooler to programming using Scratch at my highschool's open day. I had spent a few hours making a simple two player shooting game and a maze generator for the IT class display. Most kids just wanted to play the games, but seeing just one of them be genuinely excited about the possibility of creating his own interactive experiences, asking questions about how certain mechanics were implemented, what I did to get to this point, if I thought he would be able to create similar things, was really encouraging. Probably didn't make a difference in the long run, but still a treasured memory for me.

This is a really cool project. It's unfortunate to see the author being this obviously frustrated by having Sixel-related contributions be rejected time and time again. However it seems like the main Tmux maintainer has shown up on the issue tracker about being open to including the changes upstream, maybe that will improve their faith in the open-source community.

Somehow I don't seem to have the same experience as most people in this thread. Sure, homegrown tomatoes and cucumbers taste quite a bit better than what I usually buy at the supermarket, but it certainly isn't perfect vs. inedible.

Possible explanations I can think of:

1. My taste perception is just broken because I am relatively young and have been raised on low-quality produce.

2. My local supermarkets just happen to stock excellent vegetables (I live in Central Europe).

3. There are some extremely high-quality breeds of tomatoes/cucumbers that I have never eaten before.

4. Other people are simply more enthusiastic about vegetable quality and therefore their claims seem exaggerated to me.

I currently trust Restic with basically all of my long-term backups, which, according to the author, really isn't a thing I should do.

However, I'm still somewhat confident in my strategy as I backup my all of my data to two entirely different repositories, one of them backed by Google Cloud, and another by the server sitting in my pantry. So one of these repositories could get irrecoverably corrupted and I still wouldn't lose any of my data. With cloud storage becoming so cheap I've also thought about adding a third repo.

Of course this would not protect me from a hypothetical bug in Restic that corrupts all my repositories before I notice, so maybe I should also add another auto-backup solution into the mix.

Doing manual things like moving data to external storage seems like a robust strategy, but I really don't trust myself to do something like that nearly often enough for it to be useful.

The interface uses ringbuffers for communication between the kernel and userspace. That's how I have always understood it at least, not sure if it's actually correct.

Just as another data point, I am from Europe and my application was accepted very quickly. Im currently using Hetzner for most of my personal cloud stuff and have been very happy with their services thus far.

> Would you use backtick? Dunno. I hear it’s hard to access on some keyboard layouts like German.

It's fine, you have to press the key right next to the backspace key plus shift. Not exactly ergonomic, but easy to discover on basically any standard QWERTZ keyboard. I'd definitely like a fenced alternative. I'm okay with indentation-based code, but somehow I really dislike using it in my writing.

I get that this is the von Neumann architecture. What I don't get is how not understanding it connects to not wanting WASM or JITs in your web browser.

Note also that the author explicitly mentions they are not that concerned with JavaScript performance and would instead prefer a supposed simpler and easier to understand interpreter.

Fair enough, it seems like we mostly agree on how technology generally affects the world. I can't say I currently possess the domain knowledge to confirm your views on GPT, so I'll just have to hope you are right.