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carlos256

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    Comment #47545427

    Interesting, the decompressor in Jdeflate is around 4k LoC. https://github.com/Jpn666/jdeflate

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    Comment #47545392

    >the only flag we care about is FNAME The specification does not define an encoding for the file name. Different file systems may impose restrictions on certain names, so FNAME sho…

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    Comment #47404777

    If you need to optimize the allocator you are doing it wrong.

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    Comment #47245483

    He has some good points. This one is from a different paper (Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass): Designers had ignored both the issue of efficiency and that a language serves t…

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    Comment #47066440

    31 years old and it can't run on GNU/Linux. What a waste. The future of Delphi is darker than ever.

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    Comment #46632942

    What a waste of words. If you idea is easily replicable probably it was not a good idea after all. LLMs don't change the equation.

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    Comment #46356488

    Nope. AES is not trivial to implement securely, so most implementations simply rely on hardware support. ChaCha20 and XChaCha20 are more secure ciphers.

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    Comment #45958091

    Please don't do It.

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    Comment #45226415

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45226411

    * unary encoding coding.

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    Comment #45226325

    No, it's not. It's just a form of Elias-Gamma coding.