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Er, neither really, 'val-you'. Two syllables, definitely not three, but there is a 'y'. Rhymes with pew, few, you, new, yew, Kew, etc.
Fair enough. Yes, two syllables, but there's a sound between the "val" and the "oo" parts. If I see "loo" absent context I would normally pronounce it without that intervening sound. Whereas "lieu" has it.
Some other K/V stores often see ~Zipfian key distribution, e.g., a search index.
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Paul Graham tweeted yesterday[1] an essay that the author had written which references kivaloo. At least, that's how I came to know about it yesterday. I read the document on it, then tried to imagine what I would use it for, and couldn't really come up with a use case. I had trouble understanding where I would apply the 255 byte key to 255 byte value paradigm. I also didn't know how the benchmarks compared to simila…
255 bytes is obviously overkill for a key (a 32 or 64 byte secure hash of anything larger than 255 bytes can be assumed to unique), so it's just a question of what values are usefully in 255 bytes: One thought that comes to mind is a distributed store with centralized master, 255 bytes is plenty for a hostname and resource ID.
If they're hashes, sure. If you want to answer range requests -- e.g. "give me everything starting with ABCDEF" -- you may have a less densely utilized address space (rather like IP networking has had).
My accounting database has keys of the form "usage/". Not 255 bytes, to be sure, but not trivially short either.
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I'm ashamed to admit I didn't get the connection of the name to "key value" until this comment. So do you yourself pronounce it kee va loo or kee va lyoo? As an American, I see no distinction between the sounds of 'loo' and 'lieu'.
Also American, I pronounce loo /lu/ and lieu /lyu/, in IPA. I do commonly hear the expression "in lieu of" rendered "in loo of" but have always considered that incorrect, much like pronouncing the t in "often". It is, of course, just dialect, and the entire idea of 'incorrect pronunciation' is suspect! But I can't help but consider /lyu/ to indicate a higher, er, register.
From my experience, the more north you go the more you talk with your tongue/mouth. In my examples I was almost able to complete full sentences without moving my lips at all.
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> Well, if the user actually checks the signatures and remembers from their last visit that their should be one coming along with the software, maybe. That's a big if though. HTTPS+HSTS adds no security here. The only (reasonable) way to validate a payload end-to-end is an offline signature validation. This is true regardless of transport-level security measures like HTTPS. Doing this properly with gpg makes even mor…
Assuming your attacker can count bytes, there's no privacy added by using TLS to download static content from the Tarsnap website. There simply aren't enough similarly-sized files.
(However, Encrypted SNI is not widely adopted yet.)
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I'm ashamed to admit I didn't get the connection of the name to "key value" until this comment. So do you yourself pronounce it kee va loo or kee va lyoo? As an American, I see no distinction between the sounds of 'loo' and 'lieu'.
Also American, I pronounce loo /lu/ and lieu /lyu/, in IPA. I do commonly hear the expression "in lieu of" rendered "in loo of" but have always considered that incorrect, much like pronouncing the t in "often". It is, of course, just dialect, and the entire idea of 'incorrect pronunciation' is suspect! But I can't help but consider /lyu/ to indicate a higher, er, register.
> Kivaloo (pronounced "kee-va-lieu") FYI, that's a very American English centric way of explaining how to pronounce 'loo'! British English pronounces the lone word 'lieu' differently (with a y/j in front of the 'ū'), as in 'lieutenant' as 'leff', and is already familiar with 'loo's and pronounces them 'loo'. 'lieu' is of course of French origin, and they pronounce it differently again. It's obvious, given 'kivaloo',…
> Kivaloo (pronounced "kee-va-lieu") FYI, that's a very American English centric way of explaining how to pronounce 'loo'! British English pronounces the lone word 'lieu' differently (with a y/j in front of the 'ū'), as in 'lieutenant' as 'leff', and is already familiar with 'loo's and pronounces them 'loo'. 'lieu' is of course of French origin, and they pronounce it differently again. It's obvious, given 'kivaloo',…
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... you know you can change that URL to start "https" if you like?
Of course you are right, but some commonly accepted procedure nowadays is to do that automatically with a redirect, as a service for the user. Sure, you may have a reason for not to do so, but instead of dismissing a valid argument you could maybe explain why not ... Edit: On second thought, I recognize this whole subthread started with the wrong tone ("ironic", "reckless"), kind of dismissive or patronizing and not…