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  1. Oh, look! Another attempt to solve the monumental crisis of handling tarballs—this time with #WebAssembly and a sprinkle of #Emscripten magic. 🙄 Instead of just extracting a file like a normal person, let's generate an "index" to mount things because who doesn't love an overengineered solution to save a few bytes? 😂
    jeroen.github.io/notes/webasse #tarballs #overengineering #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

  2. I'm off to Coogee today, where tar balls have been washing up on the beach.

    My oceanography colleague Matt England was interviewed and explains where they might have come from:

    Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they? - ABC News
    abc.net.au/news/2024-10-17/coo

    #science #oceans #TarBalls #Sydney #academia #scicomms