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My harness straight I buckle on; Where high is low, and low is high, The crooked straight, the straight awry— Then only am I wholly sound: So be it on this earthly round.
My harness straight I buckle on; Where high is low, and low is high, The crooked straight, the straight awry— Then only am I wholly sound: So be it on this earthly round.
![The README also talks about using xxhash instead of CRC32 for integrity checking (the OP calls it "verification"), claiming this is more performant for large collections, but this is insane:
ZIP/RAR use CRC32, which is aging, collision-prone, and significantly slower to verify than XXH3 for large archival collections.
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On multi-core systems, the verifier splits the asset table into chunks and validates multiple pages simultaneously. This makes BBF verification up to 10x faster than ZIP/RAR CRC checks.
CRC32 is limited by memory bandwidth if you're using a normal (i.e. SIMD) implementation. Assuming 100 GiB/s throughput, a typical comic book page (a few megabytes) will take like ... a millisecond? And there's no data dependency between file content checksums in the zip format, so for a CBZ you can run the CRC32 calculations in parallel for each page just like BBF says it does.
But that doesn't matter because to actually check the integrity of archived files you want to use something like sha256, not CRC32 or xxhash. Checksum each archive (not each page), store that checksum as a .sha256 file (or whatever), and now you can (1) use normal tools to check that your archives are intact, and (2) record those checksums as metadata in the blob storage service you're using.
The Reddit thread has more comments from people who have noticed other sorts of discrepancies, and the author is having a really difficult time responding to them in a coherent way. The most charitable interpretation is that this whole project (supposed problems with CBZ, the readme, the code) is the output of an LLM.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uz65pind7hvmevm7c2ywknym/bafkreidbfr4xrnfovxx6mbftzdpeufncaqbfpjfxjjg44xg2b3cbvjhlqy)
![From the guardian
5h ago 16.05 EDT
Suspect's high school classmate says Robinson was the only 'leftist' in a family of 'very hard' Republicans
Anna Betts
In a phone interview on Friday, someone who said they were friends with Robinson in high school, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that the suspect was "pretty left on everything" and was "the only member of his family that was really leftist".
"The rest of his family was very hard Republican," the friend said.
Around sophomore year, the friend said, Robinson became more extreme in his political views and would "always just be ranting and arguing about them".
The friend said that they played video games together a lot in high school and noted that the bullet engraving with the arrows was a reference to Helldivers 2 - which we mentioned earlier. He said that the arrows specifically were in reference to "calling in a big bomb that exists" in the game "called the 500 kilogram".
When the friend saw the news on Friday, he said that he was shocked. "I knew he [Robinson] had strong political views, but I never thought it would even go near that far."
The friend said that he has not spoken to Robinson in years and began to drift apart toward the end of high school. Another high school classmate separately told the Guardian that the friend and Robinson were close in school and would play video games.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uz65pind7hvmevm7c2ywknym/bafkreifzhanwcupztbwq36azszxlso4ltlt52wa4ewcpgnuylxbcojxx5y)
![As the god of mousike,[b] Apollo presides over all music, songs, dance, and poetry. He is the inventor of string-music and the frequent companion of the Muses, functioning as their chorus leader in celebrations. The lyre is a common attribute of Apollo. Protection of the young is one of the best attested facets of his panhellenic cult persona. As a kourotrophos, Apollo is concerned with the health and education of children, and he presided over their passage into adulthood. Long hair, which was the prerogative of boys, was cut at the coming of age (ephebeia) and dedicated to Apollo. The god himself is depicted with long, uncut hair to symbolise his eternal youth.
[b]Mousike (the art of the Muses) was an integral part of life in the ancient Greek world, and the term covered not only music but also dance, lyrics, theatre and the performance of poetry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uz65pind7hvmevm7c2ywknym/bafkreihhwbih2jdb2r5so7pnijermsnsvokbtqcy2sxh6joelv4bvcxfem)
