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Why shouldn't you use YAML to store eye tracking data? /s (lemmy.world)

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I'm amazed at developers who don't grasp that you don't need to have absolutely everything under the sun in a human readable file format. This is such a textbook case...

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. All modern CPUs are so standardized that there is little reason to store all the data in ASCII text. It's so much faster and less complicated to just keep the raw binary on disk.

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