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Can't agree. The internet is composed of ultra high speed, ultra cheap plumbing (financed by normies doing their normie things). We piggyback on it, selfhosting our capsules for next to no cost, freeloading on all the wonderful infrastructure. Don't look at all that is bad about it, don't participate and it won't affect you.

I made a honest effort, but in the end went back to Git for my personal projects. The advantages Fossil has over Git (wiki, bug tracker) are trivial to emulate with versioned plaintext files, and everything about Git's version control system just clicks with my head. Having years of experience breaking and unbreaking things helps too.

Tho one thing Fossil taught me is to merge by default, not rebase. Rebase when there's good justification for it, and the rest of the time, have an alias for git log --oneline --graph --first-parent (or whatever that was). --first-parent collapses a horrible branchy-mergy history into a linear overview thereof, with details available when needed.

Yeah, 4 is tricky socially and 8 is tricky anatomically. I touch it to something, as an alternative to holding it up.

Using binary with bent/straight fingers gets you up to 31. There are other ways - like touching your thumb to different phalanges of different fingers, for 0..12.

Go. It's nobody knows how many thousands of years old, it's easy as pie and difficult like crazy. The game can't end in a draw. It's easy to balance strong and weak players so they can compete with full effort. The equipment is trivial to make with common, cheap household items. Computers got competitive against humans just a couple of years ago (compare to chess where they beat humans in 1997 and ever since).

I watched my kids grow, my apples and pumpkins to ripen, my code to compile, my functional tests to pass. Life's good.

Several people here have suggested the gearbox be in 1st gear, while starting. Dunno why.

I always shift to neutral, while starting, for safety (to avoid having the starter lurch), depress the clutch (as a 2nd layer of defense for the same) and still sometimes it happens that I forget both.

As for how to actually start moving: press clutch, put in 1st gear, release any brakes assuming you're on level ground, slowly release clutch until you feel that the clutch starts engaging. Then hold it there for a moment, to allow the car to get a tiny bit of speed, until finally releasing it completely. If you release clutch too fast, it'll overload the engine and it'll stall. If too slowly, it wears the clutch, which is expensive to replace. Older gasoline-fueled cars with low torque at low RPM might need a bit of accelerator (say 2000RPM) to get moving without stalling.

OP didn't want to delete anything, but to compress them all, exploiting the fact they're similar to gain efficiency.

Indeed! Interesting! I made an experiment now with a non-compressible file (strings < /dev/urandom | head -n something) and it shows you're right. 2nd commit, where I added a tiny line to that file, increased repo size by almost the size of the whole file.

Thanks for this bit.

Highly unlikely to succeed. The tiny differences are spread out all over the image.

You could store one "average" image, and deltas on it. Like Git stores your previous version + a bunch of branches on top.

Cool idea. If this doesn't exist, and it probably doesn't, it sounds like a worthy project to get one's MSc or perhaps even PhD.