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tarasglek commented on Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format   github.com/rorosen/zeekst... · Posted by u/rorosen
rorosen · 2 months ago
You can decompress a complete file with "zeekstd d seekable.zst".

Piping a seekable file for decompression via stdin isn't possible unfortunately. Decompression of seekable files requires to read the seek table first (which is usually at the end of the file) and eventually seek to the desired frame position, so zeekstd needs to able to seek the file.

If you want to decompress the complete file, you can use the regular zstd tool: "cat seekable.zst | zstd -d"

tarasglek · 2 months ago
But you can probably tail -F quite well! Which is perfect for logs (eg gimme last day i can get grep through)
tarasglek commented on Focus and Context and LLMs   taras.glek.net/posts/focu... · Posted by u/tarasglek
quantum_state · 3 months ago
Context is all you need :-)
tarasglek · 3 months ago
Indeed, that was my original working title
tarasglek commented on Stop over-thinking AI subscriptions   steipete.me/posts/2025/st... · Posted by u/hboon
tarasglek · 3 months ago
These articles seem to justify spending money without considering alternatives It's like saying "cold meds let me get back to work, I am well justified paying $100/day for NyQuil".

I would appreciate a less "just take my money" and more "here are features various tools offer for particular price, I chose x over y cos z". Would sound more informed.

Would also like to see a reason on not using open source tools and locking yourself out of various further ai-integration opportunities because $200/mo service doesn't support em.

tarasglek commented on Progressive JSON   overreacted.io/progressiv... · Posted by u/kacesensitive
tarasglek · 3 months ago
People put so much effort into streaming Json parsing whereas we have a format called Yaml which takes up less characters on the wire and happens to work incrementally out of the box meaning that you can reparse the stream as it's coming in without having to actually do any incremental parsing
tarasglek commented on The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini   spacebar.news/the-flip-ph... · Posted by u/protonbob
therein · 3 months ago
I had that phone. The keypad was indeed unbearable. Right after I bought it, my friends started getting Nokia 6600. It was a major improvement in every way.

3650's camera was 640x480 and had a noticeable delay after taking a photo. It had acceptable shutter speed but if the subject was moving, it would be blurry. 6600 was a lot better. I think it might have been slightly higher resolution as well. 3650's videos were really low frame rate and barely acceptable. 6600 had better video but still not great. At least usable at that time.

I really hated 3650's keypad. Siemens SX1 also was memorable with its weird keypad. [0]

[0] - https://sm.pcmag.com/pcmag_uk/review/s/siemens-sx/siemens-sx...

tarasglek · 3 months ago
When I was at Nokia around that time they were giving out the weird keypad phone for free to all employees it was really terrible, I guess they had an oversupply as the result of people not liking them
tarasglek commented on What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?   morling.dev/blog/what-if-... · Posted by u/mpweiher
1oooqooq · 4 months ago
not really. both requires that you know obscure and badly documented stuff.

systemd whole premise is "people will not read the distro or bash scripting manual"...

then nobody read systemd's (you have even less reason, since it's badly written, ever changing in conflicting ways, and a single use tool)

so you went from complaining your coworkers can't write bash to complaining they don't know they have to use EXEC= EXEC=/bin/x

because random values, without any hint, are lists of commands instead of string values.

tarasglek · 4 months ago
Bash scripts are write-only software. one read systemd c

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