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mircea_popescu: i am not making you! and if it dun seem like something you wanna do best not to do.
mircea_popescu: sina they do not protect against this by design, but by implementation.
mircea_popescu: depending on how the whole scheme is implemented, yes.
mircea_popescu: sina to find out which keys aren't assigned you also keep a /keys/available then
mircea_popescu: if you wish to find out what key you can assign, you gotta enumerate the db, though ideally you keep this in ram rather than in the db
mircea_popescu: well, if you wish to assign a SPECIFIC key, then you must edit the /keys/assigned/key.symlink reference to point to it.
mircea_popescu: sina you can just create/edit the symlinks like any other files.
mircea_popescu: alternatively (and what everyone does) is make pagefiles and read those. though...
mircea_popescu: now, whether this works irl or noit, we do not really know
mircea_popescu: /key/0fae.key ; /key/assigned/symlink-0fae.key /key/bogus/symlink etc
mircea_popescu: prolly limit names to alphanum and then use eg "*self" or somesuch is the approach.
mircea_popescu: geting hard numbers on file system performance, something everyone involved in data storage for the past 30 years has been vehehehery deliberately hiding, is certainly better use of time than, for instance, attempting to reason with djb jzw & all.
mircea_popescu: there's no "best use of measurement" for exact same reason there's no "wot best practices", or "ideal rng values"
mircea_popescu: it is fundamentally, and irrecoverably, flawed. measurements are the only basis of thought.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with measuring the world around. an attempt to explain why this is a waste of time isn't really going to be entertained.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i still didn't get what i'd call good numbers / a good measurement.
mircea_popescu: such as, we';re discussing cunts, but oohohohohobviously not rly.
mircea_popescu: mod6 problem with the very specific words is that often enough conversations are carried in wholly metaphorical terms.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, the history of roman empire was attempted 500x, why should one fellow stop the rest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check it out, you're famous nao, being discussed in absentia.
mircea_popescu: sina does sqlite have unicode support ? if it does, then it will necessarily be less lines of code.
mircea_popescu: sina simple example and i don't pretend like this is useful : /assignments/0f0a.txt contains or does not contain "hurrdurr". by checking if it does you know hurrdurr is assigned to 0f0a.
mircea_popescu: well, for you in that you get to say you did it (ie, have the experience), and for alf that he's not stuck importing ALL THE REST of sqlite.
mircea_popescu: this locks into an older discvussion re bitcoin fs, which was iirc still stalled at perf-ing the various available fs thoroughly for massive directory/file usage.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: sina you can implement your whatever as a binary tree, leverage the directory structure, and simply check if there's a file / write it.
mircea_popescu: sina or just you know, look into how to do btree and have a hash something ?
mircea_popescu: sina i don't get it ? make file with keys, make file with assignments. why mv ?
mircea_popescu: i don't know it has to be shitty, unless there's some other constraint, like "make it overnight"
mircea_popescu: mod6 i used to enjoy the luxury of multipass reads through the log. but it's under threat these days
☟︎ mircea_popescu: feels like headlifting three times the weight these days
mircea_popescu: and in other news, the logs stay about the same 500 lines they always are, but holy shit it seems somehow they get denser or what the fuck, it's unseemly.
mircea_popescu: certainly above qs could have been asked just as well by a noob, and vague "large threads" reference dun help him any.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just, work happens when prodded, and systematization is work like any other work.
mircea_popescu: yeah, whole line sounds a lot like baiting, but not at all my intention.
mircea_popescu: phf for my curiosiuty, list tenets and positive/negative effects ?
mircea_popescu: are you saying he switched from trying to annihilate it to being unhappy with it because it has managed to gather some apparent support with me ?
mircea_popescu: the amusing part not yet picked up (i was expecting alf to jump) is that... it has inband encoding. "self" is a special word!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it is this thing which talks back to you. === girlfriend, are you kidding me ?
mircea_popescu: ask around. decide(); and void think void etc, the writing's on the wall.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only mental model of computer per se would be "girlfriend".
mircea_popescu: guy is kinda predictable, his previous codebase was a cartoon-colored illustration of the impossibility of autodidacticism
mircea_popescu: back in msdos days it was int21 and etc for ... video iron's full capacity.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's actually my bad, they called it optimizing assembler back then for some reason.