TIL that 'asdf' is a proposed replacement data format for astronomical images and other scientific data

I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.

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asdfMovie.asdf
- I made you a pie!
  
  What flavor?
- ASDFM, better than the best.
No love for us Dvorak users :(
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.
- Today Is Fucking Friday?
  
  Tagged Image File Format
  
  It was created before creativity was discovered.
  
  You’re confusing it with TGIF, or Today’s Girls in Files, an ancient file format for animated erotica with poor colour depth.
You might also appreciate the ABC musical notation format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation
Seems to be an alternatieve to using CSV's for datasets with some more advanced features

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