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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
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[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 months ago

ZSTD FTW

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

Damn you guys borrowing consonants from polish names now?

[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

Wut?

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I think it's a joke about how people from Poland have a lot of consonant letters in their name, particularly the letter Z. This appears strange to non-poles, and thus became the subject of many jokes. So ZSTD looks a little bit like a Polish name in the sense that it's made up of many consonant letters, including a Z.

More examples of people making fun of Polish names:

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[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 6 months ago

This sent me down a Polish rabbit hole I'm very happy to have fell into

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