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Why shouldn't you use YAML to store eye tracking data? /s (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if you want it to be human readable, you don't need to include the name into every field and use balanced separators.

Any CSV variant would be an improvement already.

[โ€“] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Even using C#'s decimal type (128bit) would be an improvement! I count 22 characters per numbers here. So a minimum of 176bit.