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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn you guys borrowing consonants from polish names now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wut?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think it's a joke about how people from Poland have a lot of consonant letters in their name, particularly the letter Z. This appears strange to non-poles, and thus became the subject of many jokes. So ZSTD looks a little bit like a Polish name in the sense that it's made up of many consonant letters, including a Z.

More examples of people making fun of Polish names:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you PipedLinkBot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This sent me down a Polish rabbit hole I'm very happy to have fell into