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[-] wumpus@latte.isnot.coffee 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly. It's merely our human preference for those types of files that allow them to work at all.

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

things get weird when we include "all possible states"

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's not a preference; it's simply the state of the system to which we may desire to apply compression.

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