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by haecceity 2215 days ago
Why is the idiot compressing everything?
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Diederich 2215 days ago
'back in the day', storage space was always at a premium. (As was RAM, CPU, ...) UNIX system administrators spent a lot of time thinking about saving space. I suspect the joke is that the idiot just got fixed on that one aspect.
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