• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    they’re bloated and could be compressed a ton completely losslessly

    Spoken like someone who has no concept of art or prose.

    Try compressing a Nabokov novel “losslessly”.

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      16 hours ago

      Spoken like someone who has no understanding of what lossless compression is? You can reproduce the exact words of the original

      Also it was a joke, as the books would be effectively impossible to read for a human reader