[creationix]

I meant computers can read it without any preprocessing. It's random access. You don't need to parse it, you don't need to decompress it. You just start at the end and follow pointers till you get to the desired value.

Even a trivial doc like this is challenging for me to read as a human.

[112233]

But... what sort of storage device does not allow your computers to use all 256 byte values? Why is random access data stored on teletype?

[creationix]

> what sort of storage device does not allow your computers to use all 256 byte values

- clipboards

- logs

- terminal output

- alerts

- yaml configs

- JSON configs

- hacker news comments

- markdown documentation

- etc...

I assure you, this is not a solution looking for a problem. I started out with binary encodings first, but then realized it limits so many workflows.