for any who're interested, I got the framework of my FEC app down on Friday, so I'm hoping to do some implementation a little tomorrow morning. we'll see how early I get up though. would really like to have something running and ready to put on github this week tho'.

@nergdron FEC?

@bea forward error correction. specifically, I'm making a little app in Go that's a workalike to par2 or zfec, but hopefully faster / more efficient. it's a nice exercise even if it doesn't work out, but I'm fairly confident it'll come together.

tl&dr: it creates parity data for a file so that if up to some percentage of the file is corrupted, it can be repaired using the parity data. great for ensuring long term stability of backups, or safety of data over unreliable transmission mediums.

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@morae @bea I'm a big fan, obvs. for reference, I'm also a big fuckin nerd about: filesystems, databases, data processing pipelines, distributed systems, and graphics algorithms.