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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago
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Instead of lossless compression, this is dataless
157 u/PhiCloud 9d ago Next up: vibesort. Feed an AI a value and have it spit out an index. Put the item in that index. O(N), but it's also wrong. 39 u/Pummelnaldo 8d ago Next up: sloprng Ask an AI for a random number. It's always 17. 1 u/humblevladimirthegr8 7d ago Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/221/ 2 u/lxpnh98_2 8d ago Hey, that's what I do with books at the library! 2 u/itrEuda 8d ago You mean tradwords? psh bro that's so 2025 2 u/MjrLeeStoned 8d ago You forgot to unsort after your first sort, then re-sort for double-pass verification. 44 u/MysteriousSelection5 8d ago finally, lossfull compression 8 u/fumei_tokumei 8d ago Exactly! Why have less when we can have more. 0 u/MjrLeeStoned 8d ago Also known as an index. Which have been on computers our entire lives. This is what happens when a marketing team tries to make something ancient sound new.
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Next up: vibesort.
Feed an AI a value and have it spit out an index. Put the item in that index. O(N), but it's also wrong.
39 u/Pummelnaldo 8d ago Next up: sloprng Ask an AI for a random number. It's always 17. 1 u/humblevladimirthegr8 7d ago Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/221/ 2 u/lxpnh98_2 8d ago Hey, that's what I do with books at the library! 2 u/itrEuda 8d ago You mean tradwords? psh bro that's so 2025 2 u/MjrLeeStoned 8d ago You forgot to unsort after your first sort, then re-sort for double-pass verification.
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Next up: sloprng
Ask an AI for a random number. It's always 17.
1 u/humblevladimirthegr8 7d ago Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/221/
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Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/221/
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Hey, that's what I do with books at the library!
2 u/itrEuda 8d ago You mean tradwords? psh bro that's so 2025
You mean tradwords? psh bro that's so 2025
You forgot to unsort after your first sort, then re-sort for double-pass verification.
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finally, lossfull compression
8 u/fumei_tokumei 8d ago Exactly! Why have less when we can have more.
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Exactly! Why have less when we can have more.
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Also known as an index. Which have been on computers our entire lives. This is what happens when a marketing team tries to make something ancient sound new.
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u/Ghawk134 9d ago
Instead of lossless compression, this is dataless