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Does storing plain text data take up less space than storing the equivalent message in binary?
As a web developer I have very little understanding of binary data. If I take the sentence "Hello world.", convert it to binary, and store it as binary in an SQL database, it seems like the 1s and ...
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What web oriented language would work best with binary data? [closed]
I want to create a service where people can upload files. However, since file storage costs money, I want to compress the files so they take less space. I would want to write my own compression ...
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