see my comment above; it’s way more efficient to read individual files out of a zip archive.

zip is better than tar.gz for some applications though.

notably, individual files can be read from a zip archive without unpacking the whole archive, different than tar.gz files.

tar.gz files are only better if you pack and unpack the whole archive at once, but even then, they don’t have much advantage. the major advantage is that you can pipe the output of tar creation over the network to another computer who decompresses the tar immediately, thus transferring a folder. zip has index at beginning/start, so it requires seek when writing or skip when reading, so it can’t be streamed.

also - sorry for ranting but this is a perfect time for it - people who wear earrings are stupid. they want to be pretty so they wear earrings, though if people like you because you wear earrings, better distance yourself from these people. also, the make-up economy is harmful. make-up contains hormone-like substances, they are a means of extracting money out of unwitting women, make women feel like shit if they don’t wear make-up, and distort perception of what a normal human looks like through advertisement. women become dependent on that stuff because if nobody used it, neither would they have to.

all. i deplore piercings (that includes earrings ofc) so much, it’s an act of self-harm and people are doing it because they’re so dead inside, they want to feel anything at all rather than nothing. we need a healthy relationship with our body again, and that definitely doesn’t include self-harm.

“though your path may be set, you can gain as much speed down that path as you would like”

means, even if they had to go to war, they could have missed shots on purpose.

i think we just have different notions about what “art” is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

that video is from 2016 though? AI has improved significantly since then?

edit so i just watched the video, and miyazaki says it’s about believing in the abilities which we humans have, and while i agree, actually believing in technology (that humans create) does not contradict that. if anything, it might extend it.

rare EU commission W

Luanti is the better option IMHO because it’s FOSS and therefore more ethical.

I think journalists too often have way too little education and way often than not they have no idea what they’re talking about. The quality of news is often low. We need better journalism. I was thinking about exactly that just yesterday, by chance.

that’s the anarchic stance. mine was more a chemical/technical one.

I really agree with your point. However:

First of all, it’s reduce, reuse, recycle.

Nobody implied that recycling would solve everything. (at least i didn’t, i don’t know about what other people said)

Secondly, plastics is actually less of a problem than people think. Plastics is essentially non-toxic, or has a similar toxicity than wood, grass, and other carbohydrates. So essentially non-toxic. The fact that there is traces of it in your blood is not surprising, because our detection systems these days are very sensitive and can detect even the tiniest amounts.

The additives are the problem, and they should either be forbidden or strictly regulated.

The point that “chemical recycling is infeasible” is wrong. It used to be financially infeasible because the energy required to recycle was many times more expensive than just buying crude oil and making new plastics. Nowadays, however, that might change, depending on how cheap solar energy turns out to become over the next 10 years.

Furthermore, i guess Aluminum and glass are actually often worse for the environment, because while they could be recycled close to 100% when properly collected, such a good collection system is totally unreasonable and off the bat IMO. Consider: if there’s one stupid guy who throws a lead acid battery into the recycle container, all of you now have lead poisoning for the rest of your lifes. It’s a medical hazard.

Additionally, the problem with plastic waste in the environment is a problem of insufficient regulation, not with the plastics itself. Plastics can be burned very close to 100%, so it leaves no traces. Different than say nuclear which leaves back toxic waste. Additionally, burning plastics releases close to 100% of the energy stored in it, so it could be used as a fuel. In the future, optimized plastics power stations might burn plastics in the winter to generate energy to compensate for lower solar energy. That’s why i’m actually in favor of collecting all plastics in gigantic landfills, because it might become a very valuable resource later on.

i think it’s reconsider (buying this product), reuse, recycle

I tried installing Linux (dual-boot alongside Windows) on my dad’s computer two weeks ago and it didn’t work (something to do with the TPM chip i think). I gave up after 15 minutes. It was supposed to be a demonstration how “quick and easy” it is to install Linux nowadays. On top of that, it broke the Windows install. Bad first impression IMO.

Just replace “woke” with “russian”.