Seems to be an alternatieve to using CSV's for datasets with some more advanced features
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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Can't be more complicated than TIFF
The fuck? Most formats are more complicated than TIFF. TIFF is so simple, you barely have to read 30 pages of well written spec to modify it with just a hex editor. You don't get much simpler with a binary format. Want something complicated? Try implementing PDF with it's hundreds to thousands of pages per version.
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You’re confusing it with TGIF, or Today’s Girls in Files, an ancient file format for animated erotica with poor colour depth.
Tagged Image File Format
It was created before creativity was discovered.
Was it used by fax machines?
I don't know about fax machines but a lot of scanners used it. You can also have multi-page .tiff files of lossless images, though they're generally huge files.
No love for us Dvorak users :(
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