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The article says that 42.zip compresses 4.5 petabytes down to 42 bytes. It should say 42 kilobytes. I don't see a way to comment on the article itself, but hop
by eyuelt 9y ago
The article says that 42.zip compresses 4.5 petabytes down to 42 bytes. It should say 42 kilobytes.
I don't see a way to comment on the article itself, but hopefully the author reads this.
- ben174 9y agoThank you. I was going crazy trying to think of what the contents of that 42 bytes would have been.
- geek_at 9y agothanks I fixed it
- philjohn 9y agoAnother small point, you don't need that starts with function, just use strpos === 0.
- jacquesm 9y agoIt's actually good practice to wrap a bit of code like that in a function with a name, as long as it isn't in some kind of extremely frequently executed inner loop. 'starts_with' is descriptive and language agnostic where '=== 0' is neither.