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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by megaman@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programming@programming.dev

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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I nominate Paul Eggert and Arthur Olson before him, for the tz database, which we all depend upon whenever the time at which something happens (or did or will happen) matters.

Edit: Tom Scott touches on the subject here.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago

holy shit that was nuts

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

When the US came close to going on permanent daylight savings time there were interesting discussions there.