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[–] Carighan@piefed.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Watch some startup "invent" a revolutionary lossless format that discards some information.

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Xerox did that ages ago.

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

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[–] Carighan@piefed.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fuuuuuck. There goes another business idea. 😂

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

did that ages ago

That's the point of revolution, no?
Going back to something that was in the past, except giving it a new name and context:P

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