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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by raphaelj on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:23PM (#20670614)
Can't he just disable the Internet interface?
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by imtringued on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:27AM (#20674116)
It's not written in the restrictions so it wouldn't be fair.
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by throwawaywego on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:41PM (#20689475)
> Programs must run without input from other sources (files, network, dictionaries, etc.) under Windows or Linux without additional installations.
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by manyall on Sunday August 11, 2019 @06:15PM (#20670887)
Or provide a readme.txt, or manual.txt, for the decompressor, at the humble size of 100mb, or so.
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