• fibojoly
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    1 year ago

    Back in the day, when bandwidth was precious and porn sites would parcel a video into 10 second extracts, one per page, you could zip a bunch of these mpeg files together into an uncompressed zip, then rename it .mpeg and read it in VLC as a single video. Amazing stuff.

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      1 year ago

      What’s it called when you logically expect something to work, but are totally surprised that it actually does?

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        1 year ago

        Sounds an awful lot like a normal day at work as a dev.