tracnar

I believe the default at least changed so it should be better now!

Since you're rewriting history anyway, couldn't you add the sha1 hash to all the commits as metadata?

This makes me wonder, what's the difference between the 2D area and the 3D topographic surface area? Is the latter even ever measured?

To give an example, this it of course not true:

> Only a limited set of frequencies is used in music. All these frequencies (that exist in music) can be played by a piano.

Another way would be to enforce a copy, adding the metadata, at the boundary with fil-C, right? Of course that makes the FFI way less useful...

It also supports .tar but that's probably not very commonly used.

Haha indeed. At work suddenly documentation and APIs are important, but it's all for/behind "skills". Before it was always "sure, that would be nice"...

I do welcome the improvements to doc and APIs this brings though!

Could you have a heuristics based on the input size and the pattern to decide what to use?

They do, but the US can still force them to hand over data that's in EU. (This was confirmed by Microsoft France officials.)

At least in Belgium it's quite common for a lot of students to fail the first year (partly due to the difficulty, partly due to partying instead of studying). But it's not like it's really free, the tuition is cheap but the accomodation is expensive. I also don't think it's particularly difficult on purpose to filter out students, it's just that it's not overly expensive and a lot of people are unsure about what to study.

If you're porting a library, you can use the original implementation as an 'oracle' for your tests. Which means you only need a way to write/generate inputs, then verify the output matches the original implementation.

It doesn't work for everything of course but it's a nice way to bug-for-bug compatible rewrites.

Indeed, the Tcl implementation does this so e.g. `set d [dict] ; dict set d key value` can modify d in place instead of creating a copy (since everything is immutable).

What actually happens if you remove read permissions on the /nix/store directory? Do things still work? I suppose I'll need to try!