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nathanpankon

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nathanpankon··on Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons?
Yeah a tad disappointing signals, but always good to read a nullpt.rs

Very cool techniques on the antillm side though!

nathanpankon··on How big is a Git commit?
thanks :)
nathanpankon··on How big is a Git commit?
There are some attempts at this (semanticdiff, etc) and they seem very good. But I was looking for a tool that could actively edit a set portion of code, maintaining a small diff above a moving target

In that case merging from "main" starts to be extremely difficult

nathanpankon··on How big is a Git commit?
Good call, made it public :)

Thanks!

nathanpankon··on How big is a Git commit?
I played with making a git alternative that was streamlined according to workflow. I haven't completely abandoned it, but my core idea was that you can use ast path to compress the data further.

Like you said git is really efficient, and even though I went in with some criticism because of the work(mess) that is chromium and the deep hacking I did there to fix stuff between versions without forcing a complete rebuild

I came to the conclusion that as a compression alternative, my approach wasn't worth it. Git did a better job!

Anyway here's the attempt: https://github.com/pankon/gat