| πFS(github.com) | |
| 933 points by helterskelter 1 day ago | 201 comments | |
tl;dr: πfs is a satirical FUSE filesystem that "stores" your data in the digits of π, exploiting the conjecture that π is a normal number containing every possible finite sequence. In practice, it looks up each byte's location within π and saves those indices as metadata—meaning the "metadata" ends up larger than the original data, and writing a 400-line text file takes five minutes. The repo now points to a successor project, inferencefs. | |
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