The type of data centers humans used to build
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All those trees
Too free, too open...
No cameras in every corner (╯’□’)╯︵ ┻━┻
Woah... I thought SATA was slow...
Speed is one thing. At least these are free of compression artifacts, and in many cases the data is redundant and signed, which are nice features. The prefetch and local caching also have some excellent characteristics.
English has an information density of like 1.2 bits per word if i recall correctly
Those books aren't just uncompressed, they're bloated and could be compressed a ton completely losslessly
A short book written using arithmetic encoding might take a few extra months to read, but think of all the paper you'd be saving!
Hey, now. Stupid people need to be able to talk.
assigned summer reading: nursery rhymes.
yay
arithmetic encoded nursery rhymes
oh...
And remember; using a calculator is cheating
they're bloated and could be compressed a ton completely losslessly
Spoken like someone who has no concept of art or prose.
Try compressing a Nabokov novel "losslessly".
Spoken like someone who has no understanding of what lossless compression is? You can reproduce the exact words of the original
Also it was a joke, as the books would be effectively impossible to read for a human reader
