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.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can give me any file, and I can create a compression algorithm that reduces it to 1 bit. (*)

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(*) No guarantees about the size of the decompression algorithm or its efficacy on other files

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 days ago

Here's a simple command to turn any file into a single b!

echo a > $file_name

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