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Today I Learned (TIL)

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I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] BananaPeal 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

P I E F L A V O U R

°sick guitar shred°

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ASDFM, better than the best.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can't be more complicated than TIFF

[–] DasFaultier 20 points 1 month ago

The fuck? Most formats are more complicated than TIFF. TIFF is so simple, you barely have to read 30 pages of well written spec to modify it with just a hex editor. You don't get much simpler with a binary format. Want something complicated? Try implementing PDF with it's hundreds to thousands of pages per version.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tagged Image File Format

It was created before creativity was discovered.

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

Was it used by fax machines?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I don't know about fax machines but a lot of scanners used it. You can also have multi-page .tiff files of lossless images, though they're generally huge files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You’re confusing it with TGIF, or Today’s Girls in Files, an ancient file format for animated erotica with poor colour depth.

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

No love for us Dvorak users :(

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

You might also appreciate the ABC musical notation format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Seems to be an alternatieve to using CSV's for datasets with some more advanced features