If you have a tub full of water and a take a sip, you still have a tub full of water. Therefore only drink in small sips and you will have infinite water.
Water shortage is a scam.
I had a manager once tell me during a casual conversation with complete sincerity that one day with advancements in compression algorithms we could get any file down to a single bit. I really didn’t know what to say to that level of absurdity. I just nodded.
Well he’s not wrong. The decompression would be a problem though.
Yeah with lossy compression the future is today!
Maybe they also believe themselves to be father of computing
You can give me any file, and I can create a compression algorithm that reduces it to 1 bit. (*)
spoiler
(*) No guarantees about the size of the decompression algorithm or its efficacy on other files
That’s precisely when you bet on it.
You want real infinite storage space? Here you go: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Finally someone uses the fact that compute time is so much cheaper than storage!
Easy, just replace each byte of data with multiple bytes of metadata. I see no problem here
Breakthrough vibes
that’s awesome! I’m just migrating all my data to πfs. finally mathematics is put to a proper use!
It’s all fun and games until your computer turns into a black hole because there is too much information in too little of a volume.
Even better! According to no hiding theorem, you can’t destroy information. With black holes you maybe possibly could be able to recover the data as it leaks through the Hawking radiation.
Perfect for long term storageCan’t wait to hear news about a major site leaking user passwords through hawking radiation.
Broke: file names have a max character length.
Woke: split b64-encoded data into numbered parts and add .part-1…n suffix to each file name.
each file is minimum 4kb
(base64.length/max_character) * min_filesize < actual_file_size
For this to pay off
each file is minimum 4kb
$ touch empty_file $ ls -l total 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 0 may 14 20:13 empty_file $ wc -c empty_file 0 empty_fileHuh?
Oh, I’m thinking folders aren’t I. Doy…
It seems those are 4 KiB on Linux, interesting to know.
