🎉 Oh joy, another thrilling installment in the riveting saga of "Backing Up Emails: The Movie!" 🍿 This time, our hero battles the ever-terrifying Gmail Takeout, valiantly dodging Google's arbitrary account-locking antics to archive a whopping 5.7GiB of riveting email history. 🎩✨ Clearly, data hoarding is the new extreme sport! 🏆📧
https://baecher.dev/stdout/incremental-backups-of-gmail-takeouts/ #BackingUpEmails #GmailTakeout #DataHoarding #ExtremeSport #EmailArchive #HackerNews #ngated
Incremental backups of Gmail takeouts

Discusses the problem of Gmail takeouts as a single giant file and provides detailed background on the gmail-mbox-codec app that allows efficient incremental backups of said file.

🚀✨ Ah, the Kafka Replication Protocol—because who doesn't want to read a #novella written by a bot about data replication? 😂 Apparently, deciphering Kafka's tribal dialect while navigating GitHub's labyrinthine interface is the new extreme sport! 🏋️‍♂️📚
https://github.com/Vanlightly/kafka-tlaplus/blob/main/kafka_data_replication/kraft/kip-966/description/0_kafka_replication_protocol.md #KafkaReplication #Protocol #GitHub #DataReplication #ExtremeSport #HackerNews #ngated
Ah, the noble pursuit of using arena allocators for Odin programming—because who doesn't want to micromanage memory like it's 1995? 🕹️ Apparently, some folks think juggling lifetimes and dynamic arrays is the new extreme sport. 😅 But don't worry, you can always skip the thrill and just use a default allocator. Problem solved, right? 🙄
https://zylinski.se/posts/dynamic-arrays-and-arenas/ #arenaAllocators #OdinProgramming #memoryManagement #extremeSport #codingHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Arenas in Odin: Dynamic Array Trouble

When programming in Odin you can use arena allocators. If you use an arena allocator combined with a dynamic array, then there are a couple of pitfalls that may not be apparent at first. Let’s look at what arenas are, how you can run into trouble when naively using them with dynamic arrays and what you can do instead. What’s an arena? How does it work? Arenas and arena allocators are useful for grouping allocations that have the same lifetime.

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~740km east of Mackay, Queensland, 90km west of Tropical Cyclone Alfred. Sure hope he's safe.

"He is travelling solo on the rowing boat from... [San Diego] Californian... to Brisbane and was battling winds of 80km/h and heavy seas when he called for help, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) said.

A Cairns-based Challenger jet didn’t spot the vessel on Saturday but managed to make contact with Mockus, who said he was tired. "
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/02/lithuanian-rower-attempting-to-cross-pacific-activates-emergency-beacon-off-queensland-near-cyclone-alfred
#rowing #ExtremeSport #Endurance

‘I need to survive’: rower attempting to cross Pacific activates emergency beacon off Queensland near Cyclone Alfred

Australian navy ship heading to Coral Sea after Aurimas Mockus calls for help one week out from reaching Queensland

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HETEK (dat ma lieber sein jelassen)
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Surfs up … Moonlight Beach, CA . Amazing waves 🌊 this morning will be going back just had to take a lunch break lol … enjoy 😉.

#Water #Surfing #Surfboard #Sky #SportsEquipment #SurfingEquipment #PeopleInNature #PersonalProtectiveEquipment #Sports #WindWave #Recreation #Skimboarding #Wind #ExtremeSport #Boardsport #Leisure #SurfaceWaterSports #Wakesurfing #Lake #Landscape