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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Carlos E.R.   
   Re: ever had 1GB+ kern.log (and syslog)    
   16 Jan 26 21:03:55   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:40:30 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
   > Way too complicated.   
      
   First you said it couldn’t be done at all -- that it was   
   “intentionally impossible”, and “intentionally not implemented by the   
   journal”. Now when I point out it can be done quite easily,   
   potentially with just a few lines of script, you claim that’s “way too   
   complicated”.   
      
   What I think is, it’s your existing way of laboriously copying and   
   filtering text-format logfiles with your own (likely regexp-heavy)   
   custom scripting, that is “way too complicated”, and you are suffering   
   from something called the “sunk-cost fallacy”, where you don’t want to   
   throw away all the effort you have put into your existing ways of   
   doing things, even if the new way is simpler.   
      
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