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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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