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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Wed Jun 10 20:47:00 BST 2020
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 06:36:05AM -0400, Natalie Pendragon wrote:
What I feel less excited about is the specification of a hard-coded
$THRESHOLD. It feels like a magic number that's not going to fit all
situations well - adding three of them like you brought up at the end
improves the situation, but nevertheless still feels like a magic
number solution. And depending on how future-proof you want these
$THRESHOLDs to be, no matter how good the magic numbers are today, as
years pass and internet access/quality across the world changes, for
better or worse, the magic numbers will become more and more out of
date.
Hmm. I'll admit I didn't think about this at all, so good job flaggingit! That said, I'm not sure this is a problem for us. Gemini's lackof caching, lack of compression, and lack of resumable downloads allmean it's *never* going to be sensible choice for really big downloads,no matter how fast internet speeds get. I don't see a future whereGemini clients wanting to choose between thresholds of 100MiB, 1GiB and10GiB are sensible.
Cheers,Solderpunk