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New compression technique (lemmy.today)

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

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[–] khanh@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

why would someone kill him over it? what do you think?

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not saying that's what happened, but if I ever find myself in a similar situation, I'm faking my death and moving halfway across the world in heartbeat. After I get the money of course

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

the whole story screams that kind of thing.