Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if “runk” was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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    -64 months ago

    If he hadn’t written it someone else would have. Searching through text is an obvious thing to want to do.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      And seems easy until you try to implement it yourself from scratch before most of us here were conscious of their workd