How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1

Re:How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and ... by JohnFen on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:11PM (#38549509)

I absolutely love that you do this. There appears to be a trend to discount the value of knowing the low-level details of these sorts of things -- but even if you never actually work at that level, knowing what's happening "behind the scenes" increases and deepens understanding and can make high-level things that seem arbitrary or nonsensical make sense.

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Re:How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and ... by 1letterunixname on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:41PM (#38551826)

First principles and curiosity > blithe unconcern about the "magic box". Likewise, coders who don't have enough understanding all the way down the stack including hardware are merely engineer posers in it for a paycheck.

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Re:How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and ... by happybits on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:52PM (#38561664)

Thanks a lot JohnFen.

One reason for writing the post and trying to create GIF-images from binary, was to come as close as possible to GIF format and especially the LZW-algorithm. To understand it in an intuitive way. To get a bit closer to the minds who created the algorithm in the first place.

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