The story goes like this. ComputerCraft is a mod that adds programming to Minecraft. You write Lua code that gets executed by a bespoke interpreter with access to world APIs, and now you’re writing code instead of having fun. Computers have limited disk space, and my /nix folder is growing out of control, so I need to compress code. The laziest option would be to use LibDeflate, but its decoder is larger than both the gains from compression and my personal boundary for copying code. So the question becomes: what’s the shortest, simplest, most ratio-efficient compression algorithm? I initially thought this was a complex question full of tradeoffs, but it turns out it’s very clear-cut. My answer is bzip, even though this algorithm has been critiqued multiple times and has fallen into obscurity since xz and zstd became popular.
An Ode to Bzip
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/an-ode-to-bzip/
#HackerNews #An #Ode #to #Bzip #bzip #compression #data #storage #technology #programming #HackerNews
The story goes like this. ComputerCraft is a mod that adds programming to Minecraft. You write Lua code that gets executed by a bespoke interpreter with access to world APIs, and now you’re writing code instead of having fun. Computers have limited disk space, and my /nix folder is growing out of control, so I need to compress code. The laziest option would be to use LibDeflate, but its decoder is larger than both the gains from compression and my personal boundary for copying code. So the question becomes: what’s the shortest, simplest, most ratio-efficient compression algorithm? I initially thought this was a complex question full of tradeoffs, but it turns out it’s very clear-cut. My answer is bzip, even though this algorithm has been critiqued multiple times and has fallen into obscurity since xz and zstd became popular.
Dictionary Compression Is Finally Here, and It’s Ridiculously Good, by @pimterry (@httptoolkit):
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/dictionary-compression-performance-zstd-brotli/
Timelapse of that being drawn.
Still for https://www.furaffinity.net/user/vauvenader/
#minkart #furry #furryart #hyperfur #hyper #hyperboobs #hyperbreasts #hyperbutt #hyperass #breasts #boobs #butt #ass #breastexpansion #compression #shark #female
Holding on pretty well, considering.
For https://www.furaffinity.net/user/vauvenader/
#minkart #furry #furryart #hyperfur #hyper #hyperboobs #hyperbreasts #hyperbutt #hyperass #breasts #boobs #butt #ass #breastexpansion #compression #shark #female
🧵 n/n 👀 see thread, above
Mistral small 3, via duck.ai / #duckduckgo seems to produce similarly useful results.
ZFS compression seems to be a localhost kinda matter, regardless of the role of localhost in the network - zfs set compression on ALL the localhosts, i guess! 😉
Oh my, how unexpected! 👀
Now i'm curious!
#ZFS #compression settings don't seem to get replicated, via zfs send/recv?
My intention was zstd-fast compression on both sides - the working copy (um780xtx) AND the replication/backup target (elitedesk).
I kinda don't want to bother @allanjude, again - he's likely busy enough, dealing with more important stuff, than some internet rando's #Steam library backups. 🤣 (👀 img alt txt) (edit: 🧵 1/n)
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