Comment on Storing Files in the Walmart Chip Aisle

starlord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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