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Comment by askvictor | Hacker News Reader

So you're saying that Daft Punk was 150 years ahead of its time?

But still centuries behind liturgical music. Sing "Kyrie eleison" in this manner for 5 minutes, and then sing "Kyrie eleison" in a different manner for 10 minutes. Sing "Christe eleison" in between for a few minutes. Let's end the day singing "Osanna in excelsis" in a couple of different ways, for a few minutes each.

  $ echo "GlooOOooooOOooooOOooooOOooooOOoria" | wc --bytes
  35
  $ echo "GlooOOooooOOooooOOooooOOooooOOoria" | gzip | wc --bytes
  34

Unexpected!

Actually not. Zipping itself produces some headers and metadata. Zipping can actually increase filesize. But the effect decreases the bigger the file you're zipping is.

The raw deflate stream is more in line with expectations:

  echo "GlooOOooooOOooooOOooooOOooooOOoria" | gzip --no-name | tail --bytes=+11 | head --bytes=-8 | wc --bytes
  16

Or how about a single word, e.g. Emotion.

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