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> The claim is that the bytes are either non-accounted, or motivated by technical choices specific to Go.

That's not what it says; with "70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason" written in bold no less:

> That’s right! More than two thirds of the file on disk is taken by… bits of dubious value to the software product. > > Moreover, consider that these executable files fly around as container images, and/or are copied between VMs in the cloud, thousands of times per day! Every time, 70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason and someone needs to pay ingress/egress networking costs for these file copies. That is quite some money being burned for no good reason!

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> That's not what it says [...]

That claim was retracted a while ago already on the original version; the syndicated copy on the crl web site will be updated at some point.

So you did make the claim, but just retracted it, in spite of you saying you never made the claim, a claim which is still in the article linked here. I am now supposed to argue against some revised article published elsewhere? This is a very vexing way to have a conversation.

This is also a trick peddlers of pseudoscience pull by the way. Honestly, you're coming off even worse now and this is reflecting pretty badly on all of CockroachDB to be honest. I don't know what your relationship with CockroachDB is exactly (if any), but it's on their website, and it's not a good look. If I was a manager there then I'd back-pedal, unpublish the entire thing, and issue an apology.

> a claim which is still in the article linked here. I am now supposed to argue against some revised article published elsewhere?

The article linked in this thread is a syndicated copy of an original article published elsewhere, as clearly stated by the attribution section at the bottom. It's reasonable to expect that changes to the original will only be updated in the copy with a delay.

This is nowhere near reasonable. You said that "the article made the claim that 70% of space is wasted dark bytes" was "incorrect" with no further details. Only when pressed and provided the quote where you literally said exactly that did you start talking about some retraction.

But whatever, this is pointless. Russ was right and it's hard to take any of this in good faith. It feels like you're going to great lengths to avoid saying "oops, I was wrong".

> You said that " the article made the claim that 70% of space is wasted dark bytes" was "incorrect" with no further details

I wrote this because there was no mention of "waste" anywhere in OP.

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