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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:01AM (2 children)
if you need substantiation of the claim that you can't uniquely compress a 4k block to a 160bit sha1, you need to finish your highschool programming class, then come back and talk to us. since you clearly haven't worked for a company before, the community discussion forum is where you ask that. you cannot open a vendor support case asking them to redesign the storage array you just bought. you absolute highschool teenager who builds PCs.
you also seem to need substantiation of sha1 not having perfectly random distribution. seriously, I have to ask, what are you doing on a tech site? to put it in terms you understand, let's say you submit a story about milkshakes. you talk about how there are chocolate ones and vanilla ones, with different ratios of ice cream to milk. then some idiot asks you for the source of milkshakes having ice cream.
I gotta know - please do answer. are you at the mall right now? are you sitting at the mall with your friends with purple hair, in a black tshirt, waiting for the movie to start? or are you a completely daft older guy who has not written a line of code in their life, who looks at laptop specs from a catalog, so feels he's "IT" enough to comment on hashing functions and deduplication?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:19AM
> seriously, I have to ask, what are you doing on a tech site?
Learning, from MENTAL giants like you. Goals man!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @06:28AM
Wow. If only literally anyone else had thought of that. Surely not one of the designers would know a fact like that. Any hash table used anywhere is useless. This will surely take the world by storm. Decades of computer science down the drain.