post-Gundam cryptographyFeb 19, 2024
you don't need to care about package managers if your distribution artifact is a single static-linked binary the size of a cat genome
Show threadhalcy​ Feb 19, 2024
@vyr damn that made me wonder what size a cats genome is and it's quite large huh
Show threadpost-Gundam cryptographyFeb 19, 2024
@halcy TIL that biologists quote genome sizes in base pairs (b), which has absolutely no chance of being confused with any other common units of information
Show threadhalcy​ Feb 19, 2024

@vyr it is extremely annoying since apparently they also like to use SI prefixes so it's like "Gb" but that's GIGABASEPAIRS which ????

anyways a cat is 625 megabytes if I understood all of this right. You can just fit a cat on a CD. That's neat, I guess!

Show threadGregFeb 19, 2024
@halcy @vyr it's cool but also remember that the cat stores a cat in a nucleus 5-20 micrometers across
Show threadpost-Gundam cryptographyFeb 19, 2024
@greg @halcy this is also very cool. but whoever designed the cat neglected to add direct I/O outside the nucleus, which limits the cat in data center applications
John VilkFeb 20, 2024
Show threadhalcy​ 
@vyr @greg perfect opportunity to post this comic
Feb 19, 2024 at 11:06pmWeb
Show threadGregFeb 19, 2024
@halcy @vyr hahahah I haven't thought about Slow Wave in a long, long time