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look, it's easy enough to solve bitrot. Just store three copies of the file
and synchronize them everytime you open them. Like, an in-software raid array,
except with less expense because a .png is what, 2mb? great, now they're 6mb.
Nobody will notice except people who really should be buying more hard drives.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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@user-883
hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
flags" and I'm like "no"
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if you're got a large directory full of text files that you want to combine
into one single .txt or .pdf, let me know, I can hook you up with a mega file
so it's easier to search through or manage when archiving data or whatever the
heck else you wanna do with it
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@user-1206
Right. How can you trust that any drive produced in the last 10 years (aka any
drive with a reasonable amount of storage space for sharing things like
LaserDisk rips of Bubblegum Crisis or detailed instructions on how to build a
nuclear power generator)how can you trust that any drive with that kind of
capacity wasn't built with the goals of it's manufacturers included into it's
design requirements? Goals that typically include invading your privacy and
removing your opsec capabilities.
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the fact that linux software by default shares libraries causes 90% of the
difficulty that new and medium skill users of linux face.
disk space is cheap. spend more on hard drives and double the software size.
make redundancy that prevents software failures but doesn't slow down the
machine.
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what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
terminals?
something something not-curses
https://notcurses.com/
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what if the secret to LLM computation is to just not reduce the fractions and
keep it all in english language ram
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if you don't know how long you're going to be gone, how do you know what to
bring? like, is it a "grab the hard drives" kind of trip, or is it more like
"we'll return in the spring"?
who can say, depends on who's driving.
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if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
at once
[statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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@user-907
do you ever think up ideas and then dismiss them because they're too massive
in scale? Not mechanical complexity, but like... you'd need 128gb of ram to
run them or something like that
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@user-192
be careful, recursion can cause stack overflows.
better to run function pointers from a loop. That way you can operate as long
as necessary. Just make sure you don't get in an infinite loop...
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what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
status and use it for debug purposes
like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
download wikipedia, just in case.
If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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*perfect*, we solved computation - just become a computer! easy!
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@user-95
get two and do RAID! It's fun to set up! I think Western Digital is a good
brand?
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@user-766
ah yes but then how will my comrades come for my things know where to look? my
precious precious drives may be less safe inside of the computer case but at
least then someone I can about can find them.
or what you're saying is that a basic part of situational awareness is having
a plan for this kind of thing with the people who care about you? Ah, well,
nobody cares about me like that. Just a couple normies who want nothing but
business as usual.
wonder if I can open up my hard drives to "read only" SSH access? Or maybe
I'll just make the important files into a torrent. Or perhaps marking them as
"downloadable locations" on Soulseek? Plenty of options, all of them require
someone to care enough about your junk to want to archive it. Something
something ipfs?
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every time I update my system, it breaks.
kinda makes me think they do that on purpose so that you spend all your time
up to date and that way they can quickly patch in and out security flaws fast
enough that nobody notices.
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This was the first bash script I ever wrote.
It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it
looks like now.
Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
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@user-1582
It depends on the size of the file, copying a thousand lines of config file
probably isn't that big of a deal, but copying a million lines in a log file
just to pass it as an argument to... pad it to the left, or whatever, that'll
DEFINITELY slow down your execution speed!
Much better to pass by reference, usually...
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why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because
they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at
the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be
processed at once.
like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one
screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style.
[fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ]
if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide
to do some prevailing. gosh I wish I wasn't so useless is code for
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I love symlinks! they make my hard drive so much more organized.
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