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A .tar archive is basically only the files cat’ed together, with a header and index added, right?

Tar does not include an index. It’s just the headers and data cat’ed together. You have to read from the beginning of the archive until you find the file you want. This is exacerbated if the archive is also gzipped, since you have to decompress all the files leading up to the one you want, as opposed to skipping over them as you could do in an uncompressed tar archive.

So why is there no archive format that just cat’es the compressed files together?

That’s essentially what a zip archive does. Each file is compressed separately and cat’ed together with uncompressed headers in between. Also zip archives do have an index which is what allows for random access and easy changes. The downside is that the compression ratio of a zip archive can be worse than a tar.gz archive.

There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies

I’ve still got my Nintendo 64, and I sometimes boot up Goldeneye for old time’s sake.

Try HTTrack: https://www.httrack.com/

The GTX1660 I bought in 2023 for $300 is still running fine.

That detail is conspicuously absent from the announcement itself.

Terrible technique. Everyone knows it’s left hands only.

We are Linux. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your hard drive will be reformatted to service us. Resistance is futile.

Some have stopped working, like SteamLink, but others still work. I know it’s just a matter of time.

Mine can because it also has Netflix, Hulu, etc. built in.

Almost certainly. You’d have to go out of your way to find a keyfob system that doesn’t. I administer a keyfob system at work, and I can tell you exactly whose key was used on which doors and at what times.

The system almost certainly will record every usage of the keyfob. It may also record opening the door from inside.

A standard reference model in 3d modeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

The value of the DNS is that we all use the same one. You can declare independence, but you’d lose out on that value.

I think we should have a rule that says if a LLM company invokes fair use on the training inputs then the outputs are public domain.

Part of my job is to review security footage for reported incidents.

If there is a long-lasting visual cue that the event has or has not happened yet (e.g. a window is either broken or not), then a binary search is very useful.

If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.