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Can gzip be a language model?

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Culonavirus · 1790062666 · focus · HN ↗
This tracks perfectly with Winrar being more profitable than OpenAI... coincidence? I think not!
1. wolfi1 · 1790063517 · focus · HN ↗
  winrar is profitable? sure? well, on the other hand, they sure don't make losses
  1. shezi · 1790065233 · focus · HN ↗
    They are a German GmbH and must publicly state their financials: <a href="https://www.northdata.de/win%C2%B7rar%20GmbH,%20Berlin/Amtsgericht%20Charlottenburg%20(Berlin)%20HRB%20109885%20B" rel="nofollow">https://www.northdata.de/win%C2%B7rar%20GmbH,%20Berlin/Amtsg...
    Looks pretty profitable to me.
    amiga386 · 1790065827 · focus · HN ↗
    They're one of the few companies that actually manage to sell "boxed software" (i.e. has not changed much in years but new customers keep buying it)
    That said, Windows users should use 7-Zip. Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives
    xxs · 1790067958 · focus · HN ↗
    > Windows users should use 7-Zip
    Please no - no native zstd support. NanaZip is the better option (it's a different build of 7-zip) and it's available at windows store.
    > Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives
    winrar has supported zstd for 5 years[0]
    In short - Everyone should be using zstd, and 7-zip does not support it.
    [0]: <a href="https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=175&cHash=aca38142108c76995eba6c674bfd0e14" rel="nofollow">https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5...
    pixl97 · 1790089628 · focus · HN ↗
    >> Windows users should use 7-Zip
    7z is now built into W11 right click so that or zip is what will be used by default anyway.
    hypercube33 · 1790116526 · focus · HN ↗
    Last I checked windows handles compressed files in 4 byte or 4kb or something chunks and is incredibly slow to compress or decompress a lot of files.

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