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Storing Files in the Walmart Chip Aisle (youtu.be)
submitted 8 months ago by lazycouchpotato to c/videos
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sparknotes for those who don't click youtube links?

[–] lazycouchpotato 14 points 8 months ago

He uses an aisle of chips at a Walmart to store data.

He took "Hello world", compressed it using Huffman coding, then arranged the aisle of chips in binary. Bag of chips facing forward is a 0, facing backward is 1.

It's a silly video by the channel for April 1st and is purely for entertainment.