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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Tldr: It's just better compression

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Shitty tech company catches up to modern standards. In other news, water is what makes things wet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Clearly didn’t read the article. Also discord has consistently posted fantastic tech blogs and led the industry in certain segments, no matter if you hate their locked ecosystem or not. This is a programming forum, at least read the article and discuss its merits.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Lmao getting ahead of all the annoying pedants I see

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Pied Pipper at it again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Still interesting. zstandard using pretrained dictionaries (zstd --train). Previously they used zlib.

Does anybody know if you can pretrain dictionaries for 7zip for large ebook libraries? Or any better compression library for text?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

And a pickup of gains from sending just the delta of changed data for one of their passive update beacons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That's only half the article