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New compression technique (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

most likely he just overstressed because he sold folks a bill of goods

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Yup. It seems a lot more likely than solving a problem that we still can't solve, and that might not even be possible, in the 90's.

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[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago

and now we have AI and even this wondrous wonder of technology can't figure it out.

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