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Re:Wikifunctions by Nthringas on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @06:04PM (#38550705)
so we will need to learn to read gzip (and other compressed binary formats) as if they were not compressed

this is also related to how 2 hour long movies will diminish into a niche... and movies of the future will be more like [0]

this observation is on the same trend as operas; which way back would last all evening (over 3 hours was typical)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Asx_XhPH80

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Re:Wikifunctions by finnjohnsen2 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @06:38PM (#38550995)
> so we will need to learn to read gzip

this rant gave me a proper laught. thank you.

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Re:Wikifunctions by account42 on Friday December 08, 2023 @05:30AM (#38567398)
You get used to it. I…I don’t even see the huffman code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head.
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