If they expose it, that ties them to a particular hash algo. Hash algos are as much art as science, and the opportunities for hardware acceleration vary from chip to chip, so maintaining the leeway to move from one algo to another is kind of important.
Also similarly is filesystem's transparent compression. The checksum should be on compressed blocks, to check everything without having to decompress them during a scrub.
You'd need to match compression settings on both ends. A different number of threads used will change the result too, would probably change depending on the hardware.
Would also apply to encryption. Probably shouldn't be using the same encryption key on different filesystems.
Or if you're using bcachefs with background compression, compression might not even happen till later.
For me, DbBeaver is jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Seems to handle every database known to mankind, but not a fantastic user experience. While HeidiSQL is a work of art for MySQL / MariaDB, but not much else. I use & appreciate both in different ways.
now that AI has given the office boys a reason to guzzle gigawatts, they’re walking-back the carbon credits grift. warming or not, we’re destroying the world at a startling pace. everyone should consume less.
Corporations have many constraints—advertisers, investors, employees, legislators, journalists, advocacy groups. So many “white lies” are baked into these models to accommodate those constraints, nerfing the model. It is only a matter of time before hardware brings this down to the hobbyist level—without those constraints—giving the present methods their first fair fight; while for now, they are born lobotomized. Some of the “but, but, but…”s we see here daily to justify our jobs are not going to hold up to a non-lobotomized LLM.
Although huge/small is subjective, I wouldn’t consider 22% of new demand “small”—especially for LLMs, which seem to present more problems than solutions. Sounds like a public relations piece to me. Many interested corporations launder the money through various think-tanks and institutes, and people are none the wiser.
PC-98 eroge art is beautiful. These writers—who freely take pot-shots at the “perverted” hikikomori of 30 years ago—wouldn’t dare criticize the hardcore pornography (Bonnie Blue? The OnlyFans Economy!) the world is presently steeped in. It’s like they know which waggle dance lets you in, and which one gets you booted from the hive…
Plenty of PC98 games out there that are just pure smut and assault fantasies.
You could make an argument about the production environments of "actual real person" pornography but if you're talking about aesthetics and morality of the end product? I dunno... tough sell to me for a "random" one.
Plenty of "real art" PC98 stuff too ofc (there are also of course people on the record saying "we put stuff in here so we could sell our RPG" and the like... market demands).
Hardcore is a multi-billion dollar industry, while PC-98 softcore is dead, and was a cottage industry even in its heyday. Have to please the advertisers.
> Haskell, though not perfect, is of a quality that is several orders of magnitude higher than Java.
I'm pretty sure he would assess Python a few orders of magnitude lower than Java. Probably warranting the need for a log scale for the quality of programming languages.
our technocrats are destroying the world and bleeding the peasants dry. the peasants are right to revolt against them. they only err in their choice of alternatives.
