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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] AbouBenAdhem 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

AKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see images, audio, or video files distributed in zips far too often. You're getting maybe a percent of compression if you're lucky; just distribute the raw files or use a non-compressed bundle format like tar.

[–] Brickhead92 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

tar -xzvf filename

With a bad pretend accent:

Xtract

Zee

Vucking

File

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

The cheeky option:

tar -h

Or is it tar --help? Oh no...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

tar -cf stop-nuke.tar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] AbouBenAdhem 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Zipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah duoy you [realistically] can't compress compressed data...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Not sure what the original point was but curiously I happened to use file on a an Apple .numbers file recently and found that it was a .zip file in disguise with zero compression.

So maybe the point was that it’s used often as a container format more often than it’s used for compression? Just my (unrelated) general computer work would also suggest this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My 1.5gb log folders disagrees. But I never tried opening a .txt in 7-zip.