KillingTimeItself @ KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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it's probably using some sort of proprietary home grown database, because it's probably old enough that no database could support what they needed, could be wrong on that one, but it was my best guess.

i've heard conflicting reports on this, i have no idea to what degree this is true, but i would be cautious about making this statement unless you demonstrate it somehow.

TL;DR de-deuplication in that form is used to refer a technique where you reference two different pieces of data in the file system, with one single piece of data on the drive, the intention being to optimize file storage size, and minimize fragmentation.

You can imagine this would be very useful when taking backups for instance, we call this a "Copy on Write" approach, since generally it works by copying the existing file to a second reference point, where you can then add an edit on top of the original file, while retaining 100% of the original file size, and both copies of the file (its more complicated than this obviously, but you get the idea)

now just to be clear, if you did implement this into a DB, which you could do fairly trivially, this would change nothing about how the DB operates, it wouldn't remove "duplicates" it would only coalesce duplicate data into one single tree to optimize disk usage. I have no clue what elon thinks it does.

The problem here, as a non programmer, is that i don't understand why you would ever de-duplicate a database. Maybe there's a reason to do it, but i genuinely cannot think of a single instance where you would want to delete one entry, and replace it with a reference to another, or what elon is implying here (remove "duplicate" entries, however that's supposed to work)

Elon doesn't know what "de-duplication" is, and i don't know why you would ever want that in a DB, seems like a really good way to explode everything,

you have to consciously consume it though, as a consumer of information and media, you hold a responsibility to ensure that what you're consuming is both good, and factually accurate. If you aren't doing that, that's your fault.

People can argue all they want about content algorithms pushing this content, it's because it's good content, that's why its fucking propaganda. It wouldn't be if it didn't.

political propaganda and uncritically consuming information will turn you into a sheep faster than dressing up as one.

The memorial in honor of Ashli Babbit, who gave her life to stop a wave of darkies

please tell me there isnt a memorial for a schizophrenic dumbass that threw herself into a gun, that she knew was there, only to get shot and die like a fucking idiot.

you should upload that data onto archive.org if you havent already, and while you're at it, throw it on the torrents or darknet for good measure.

this is what i like the call "the stupidity of the crowd"

the unfortunate truth is that most zoomers got politically engaged during the biden admin, most zoomers were in elementary, maybe middle MAYBE highschool during the first trump term. This was most definitely an expected result to some degree.

best we can hope for is a significant demographic shift.

The real question is, if there are elections in 2028, and the Republicans lose, will there be a transfer of power?

i imagine there will have to be, otherwise there will literally be a civil war. Unless they rig voting somehow.

the concern here is that if the redwall we saw in the presidential election persists into the midterms, it may not matter what blue states vote, it's entirely dependent on how well the general public views the current administration as doing, and if that's "poorly" they'll get fucked and we'll swing blue, if not, nothing happens.

If enough of the population thinks they did a good job, for whatever reason, it may not be recoverable at all.

north korea isn't doomed to failure by virtue of how incredible aggressively their abuse their citizenship.

By literally ANY metric of the definition of failure, except for "dissolution" north korea has utterly failed their citizens. They've only managed to keep control through force.

gen z is literally the wrong generation to use 4chan lmao

its not social media that causes this, it's the political brainwashing and propaganda, idk why people are so blindly ignorant to this fact. Does social media propagate and disperse it? Yes, is it entirely the reason behind it? No.

it's almost entirely up to the fact that we use FPTP voting structures in the electoral college, not the electoral college itself.

granted getting rid of FPTP is going to be easier said than done, but it would definitely benefit us in the long run.

I don’t know what brain rotted the Gen Z boys in a way that didn’t work on the Gen Z girls but I can tell you it wasn’t fake, those kids are not alright.

its nothing to do with brainrot, its the same shit that makes your dad the single dumbest person you've ever seen whenever he speaks on politics.

good, gen z stays winning, mostly..

it's confusing from the perspective of choice paralysis, ultimately you can just make a new account and move to another instance if you really don't like the one you're on.

"feels like old reddit" is a weird way to say "it feels like new reddit, but doesn't leak ram, doesn't take as much or more processing power as AI does to run, and interjects ads randomly into the feeds"

linux would gain more support, more developers, and more market share, making it more universal. All of these are going to be beneficial to everybody.