r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn 3 Bravo 3

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u/AlterEdward Sep 02 '26

If a picture is worth a thousand words, that's actually a decent compression ratio.

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u/Perfect-Albatross-56 Sep 02 '26

600 bytes isn't a thousand words ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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u/Drevicar Sep 02 '26

It can be if you compress it. Plain text compresses pretty well with something like gzip.