Thought today’s smbc comic was too funny not to share. Source

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    I think you’re off by 2 bits (round up and don’t forget to always add 1 at the end), but regardless I think the comparison doesn’t work.

    True that it would be comparable in size to a 0.8 KiB string but not necessarily in complexity. If his lookup table didn’t do it by character but by word or sound it could have a ton more information stored there.

    Your comment stored as a string isn’t nearly maximally information dense, like you’ve made god’s info

    • lad@programming.dev
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      15 hours ago

      Even if you compress it by 99.9% losslessly, it will only make it ≈ 0.8MB, which is big but not that big